Non-Toxic Vertebrate Pest Control For Schools

Schools and Institutions, due to the huge risk of exposure of children to pesticides, herbicides and rodenticides now are subject to the California Healthy Schools Act of 2001 and greatly encouraged to adopt the practice of Integrated Pest Management on school grounds.  Gophers Limited has evolved a presentation designed to help school maintenance workers deal with nuisance animals on school grounds with out using poisons and integrating trapping and exclusion techniques into the school schedule.  This Power Point lecture and demonstration is 2-3 hours long and is an interactive problem solving session as well.

Gophers Limited has worked with several schools and designed a training and information program for the Ecology Action of Santa Cruz's IPM in Schools program for Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.  This program, funded by the Regional Water Quality Board, trained all the maintenance workers of all the public schools in each county.