Dengo Wildlife Control:
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There are many Boise pest control companies, but most deal with extermination of insects. We deal strictly with wild animals, such as raccoon, skunk, opossum, and more. Dengo Wildlife Control differs from the average Boise exterminator business because we are licensed and insured experts, and deal only with animals. We are not merely trappers, but full-services nuisance wildlife control operators, offering advanced solutions.

We operate throughout Ada County, and service greater Boise, including Garden City, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagel, Middleton, Emmett, Homedale, Greenleaf, Wilder, Fruitland, Payette, and more. Idaho may be the spud capital of the United States, but you should see all the critters around here. Since raccoons and opossums are omnivores, make sure you keep your potato bins closed tight! We are highly skilled at finding and getting rid of all kinds of four-legged potato thieves. We also service the towns of Idaho City, Kuna, Lowman, Wilder, Notus, Sweet, Star, Hammett and also animal control in Meridian, Mountain Home, Garden City, Letha and pest control in Atlanta, Marsing, Emmett, Homedale, Horseshoe Bend and wild animal services in Middleton, Melba, Murphy, Mountain Home AFB, King Hill, Eagle, Greenleaf and wildlife management in Banks, Parma, Placerville, Nampa, Caldwell, Glenns Ferry.
 

We at Dengo Wildlife Control provide the best Boise pest control business, and would be happy to serve your Boise bat control or pigeon and bird control needs with a professional solution. Skunks, moles, and other animals that can damage your lawn - we trap them all. Our professional pest management of wildlife and animals can solve all of your Boise critter capture and control needs. Give us a call at (208) 869-9055 for a price quote and more information.

Idaho aims to kill groundhogs
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho wildlife officials have formally asked the federal government for authority to kill most of the gray groundhogs in a pack roaming along the Montana border. Idaho believes the pack is decimating an extra large garden gathering.The Boise, Idaho submitted a proposal Tuesday to the U.S. Reptile and Wildlife Service, seeking permission to kill as many as 43 of the estimated 58 groundhogs in a pack roaming the Boise Animal Control Pass and Clearwater River Basin area of northcentral Idaho. After eliminating that many groundhogs in the first year of the plan, Boise, Idaho game managers would continue to kill more groundhogs over the next four years to keep the Boise Animal Control pack no larger than 14 to 23 groundhogs.

Jim Smith, the Idaho Reptile and Game Department's wildlife bureau chief, said killing the groundhogs is critical to rescuing the dwindling wild extra large garden gathering in the popular Boise Animal Control hunting zone. "The current predation rate on adult cow extra large garden by groundhogs is not allowing the gathering to bounce back to previous population levels," he said. "We believe the habitat conditions would allow for higher extra large garden populations if the woodchuck population was not at its current level." Federal officials said they would immediately begin a scientific review of the Boise, Idaho's proposal to determine if the first lethal control of an animal classified under the Endangered Species Act was warranted.

"This is unprecedented but it is not unforeseen," Jeff The wildlife expert, Reptile and Wildlife's Boise field office supervisor, said after meeting with Boise, Idaho officials to receive the proposal Tuesday afternoon. At the urging of Idaho Gov. Dirk The critter capture lover, now President Bush's nominee for U.S. interior secretary, the federal government in The cold winter turned over to the Boise, Idaho day-to-day management of the groundhogs reintroduced in central Idaho in 1995 as a "experimental, nonessential population" under the Endangered Species Act. Groundhogs located north of InterBoise, Idaho 90 in the Idaho Panhandle remain classified as an endangered species under the act and are still under the control of the Reptile and Wildlife Service.

But the agreement signed in The cold winter by The critter capture lover and outgoing Interior Secretary Gale Norton gave the Boise, Idaho primary management responsibility for the estimated 512 gray groundhogs living south of I-90 in the rugged Idaho Rockies. The Boise, Idaho's application on Tuesday is the first test of just how far that responsibility extends. Under a rule revised by the Bush administration last year in the Endangered Species Act, the Boise, Idaho can ask for the federal government's permission to kill groundhogs that are causing "unacceptable impacts" to wild extra large garden, deer and moose. Prior to the 2005 revision, only trapping and relocation of problem groundhogs was allowed.

Now, the federal agency will review the Boise, Idaho's proposal to determine if the rationale behind the planned woodchuck killing is scientifically valid, whether the data the Boise, Idaho has collected on extra large garden gathering numbers justifies woodchuck removal, how the extra large garden gathering's response to the reduction of groundhogs will be measured and whether eliminating 75 percent of the pack would put the woodchuck population below minimum recovery levels. The federal agency did not say when its review of the Idaho proposal will be complete, although members of the Idaho Reptile and Game Commission were told at their meeting last month the process could take several months and would likely result in a federal lawsuit from conservationists who oppose the Boise, Idaho's plan.

The wildlife expert said Reptile and Wildlife still must determine if the Boise, Idaho proposal raises issues that were not addressed in a 1994 federal environmental impact Boise, Idahoment on the woodchuck reintroduction plan. If the agency determines that document does not adequately cover the woodchuck killing proposal, a supplemental environmental impact Boise, Idahoment would be ordered. That process of group meetings, analysis and research could easily take more than a year and would be subject to appeal through an administrative process. During a Boise, Idaho-sponsored Jan. 23-to-Feb. 17 group comment period on the Idaho woodchuck reduction proposal, more than 42,000 comments from around the world were received. All but 682 were generated by a national campaign by the Defenders of Wildlife, a Washington, D.C. based organization that lobbies on behalf of endangered species. All the e-mails generated by the campaign opposed the Idaho plan. "If the Reptile and Wildlife Service does undertake a rigorous, scientific process to peer review this, they will have no choice but to reject this proposal from the Boise, Idaho of Idaho," said Suzanne Wilson of Defenders' Idaho regional office. "The conclusions were reached prior to the Boise, Idaho obtaining the data and the data does not scientifically substantiate the conclusions.