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Nuisance Wildlife Training
A Connecticut
Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator (NWCO) training course is
being held to offer the training to qualify for a NWCO license.
Attendance at this course is required for all new NWCO
license applicants, municipal employees who engage in the
control of nuisance wildlife (except for the emergency control
of rabies), and any previously licensed NWCO who has not
completed this training and wishes to renew their license.
Following this
Training, there will be a state administered NWCO examination
will at the CT DEP Sessions Woods WMA, 341 Milford St. (Rt.
69), Burlington, CT 06013 (directions
here). The NWCO exam is comprehensive and
requires a thorough understanding of a variety of subject areas
including:
-Wildlife
biology, reproduction, food habits and behavior of all species
included in Connecticut’s Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator
Policies and Procedures Booklet. Increased attention should be
given to several of the most commonly encountered “nuisance”
species (i.e. gray squirrels, raccoons, striped skunks,
woodchucks, flying squirrels, opossums, and bats.
-Identification
of common wildlife through field sign [i.e. tracks, (see DEP
Guide to animal tracks) scat, etc.] and typical damage caused by
these species.
-Practicing an
Integrated Wildlife Damage Management (IWDM) approach to prevent
and control nuisance wildlife that includes:
- Educating
Homeowners
- Cultural
Practices/Habitat modification
-
Frightening and Repellent use/
- Humane
capture, handling, and transport including the proper use of
live traps, one-way doors and kill traps
-
Exclusion/Animal proofing techniques
- Relocation
and release guidelines
- Handling
young animals/preventing orphaning
-Euthanasia of
wildlife by Connecticut NWCOs; must be done in accordance with
the recommendations of the 1993 Report of the AVMA Panel on
Euthanasia.
All applicants
are urged to consult a variety of references to prepare for the
exam. Some suggested references include the following: (Note:
those references marked by a * are enclosed). Those noted below
under “Training Course Handouts” will be provided at the course.
Any other recommended materials must be obtained on your own.
-Wildlife
Informational series from Ct. DEP web site, most common wildlife
fact sheets
-CT NWCO
Policies and Procedures Booklet *
Two new species, red squirrel & flying squirrels, are also
enclosed for study purposes. Red squirrels do not require a NWCO
special permit to trap but flying squirrels do.
-NWCO Policies
and Procedures Update (8/25/03) *
-CGS
26-72 Regulation of Trapping of fur-bearing animals
and
26-66-5 Trapping. General*
-Bat
Rabies-What You Should Know, 10/95, CT Department of Health*
-Rabies Fact
Sheet *
-May is Rabies
Awareness Month, Reprint from May/June 1993 CT Wildlife,
Wildlife Div.*
-A Guide to
Animal Tracks *
-Nuisance
Wildlife Control and Rabies
HERE
-Prevention &
Control of Wildlife Damage, 1994 University of Nebraska
Cooperative Extension, Hygnstrom, S.E., R.M. Timm and G.E.
Larson. 2 vols., over 500 pages. Wildlife Damage Handbook, 202
Natural Resources Hall, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
68583-0819. Tel. (402)472-2188.
-Wild
Neighbors: the Humane Approach to Living With Wildlife, 1997.
The Humane Society of the United States, Hadidian J., Hodge G.,
and Grandy J. 288 pgs. The Humane Society of the of the U.S.,
2100 L Street NW, Washington, DC 20037. (202) 452-1100
-Wildlife and
Diseases - Biohazards Associated with exposure to animals;
French, R. DVM, NE Center for Wildlife Diseases, University of
CT, 12 apps. (Rabies, Lyme Disease, Raccoon Roundworm, mange) *
-A Field Guide
to the Mammals, 1976 Peterson Field Guide Series, Houghton
Mifflin Co., Burt, William H. and R.P. Grossenheider, 289 pp.
-A Field Guide
to Animal Tracks, 1978 Peterson Field Guide Series, Houghton
Mifflin Co., Murie, Olaus J.
Training
Course Handouts/Informational Material (day of class)
-Nuisance
Wildlife Control Operator Training Outline
-1993 Report of
the AVMA Panel on Euthanasia, Journal of The American Veterinary
Medical Association, Vol. 202, No. 2, pp. 229-249.
-Connecticut
Public Act 98-199 (NWCO Statute 26-47(b)(1) through 26-47(d) and
Section2*
-Client
Notification Requirement-Approved Lethal and Nonlethal Options
to Resolve Common Nuisance Wildlife Problems
-Connecticut
DEP Laws and Information on the Use of Pesticides by NWCOs
-Some Commonly
Recommended Repellents for Use in the Control of Nuisance
Wildlife
-Wildlife
Rehabilitation in Connecticut
-Animal
Development Milestones- General Guidelines to Determine the Age
of Young Animals
Please contact
me at
jerry.kimble@sbcglobal.net or
call 860.325.2199 if you have any questions.
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