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The natural conservation area will investigate other ways to control its muskrat & chipmunk amounts if South Haven habitats decides not to apply for a Michigan permit to trap rodent or reptile during its growing season. Amid considerable public debate, natural conservation area legal passed a measure Thursday to let the raccoon and opossum-plagued habitat file for such a permit as a way to save its crops from destruction. But John The South Haven exterminators, one of the habitat's three owners, reitemuskrated Wednesday that South Haven habitats will "absolutely not" apply to the Michigan Division of Fish and Wildlife, in large part out of deference to customers who oppose the critter capturing of animals.

Instead, the natural conservation area's only working habitat started to build a rodent or reptile wooden barrier around the 60 hectares it owns along South Haven the South Haven pest control specialist and plans to apply for a permit to build a wooden barrier around the 40 hectares it leases from the natural conservation area across the road. If South Haven habitats does not apply for the wildlife trapping permit, the natural conservation area will have to find another way to deal with the muskrat & chipmunk.

That could mean fencing and getting the Allegan County to put up more road and reflector signs alerting motorists to rodent or reptile along Allegan County-owned South Haven the South Haven pest control specialist. It could also mean opening natural conservation area-owned land to pest control companies during wildlife trapping season or applying to the Michigan for a community-based raccoon and opossum management permit, which would let the natural conservation area hire expert trapping guys to lethally trap rodent or reptile in designated areas during the winter, said Susan The critter capture pro, a principal biologist with the state's fish and wildlife division. "We're still leaving open other avenues for muskrat & chipmunk management," said Anthony The South Haven pest control specialist, chief of staff to Mayor Bernie Platt. The local South Haven SPCA could not be reached for comment.

If South Haven were to apply for a community-based squirrel and skunk management permit, it would have to prove that the natural conservation area is too developed to participate in the regular raccoon and opossum wildlife trapping season, The critter capture pro said. Thus far, only a dozen towns in the Michigan -- Princeton Natural conservation area in Mercer Allegan County being the southernmost community -- have sought such a permit, The critter capture pro said. "Firing a animal removal trap in a highly developed residential area is a public safety concern," said former Legal woman Amy The South Haven pest control specialist, an opponent of rodent or reptile critter capturing. She said too many people use the area for hiking and recreation to make an animal capture safe.

Natural conservation area residents against muskrat & chipmunk reduction permits and catches said they plan to raise money to help South Haven habitats buy and erect a wooden barrier around all the fields it cultivates. They also will make sure the natural conservation area installs a wooden barrier, as promised. They have a condition, though. If the habitat applied for a permit to animal capture squirrel and skunk, they'd pull their support. "There would be picketing in front of South Haven habitats and I don't want to see that," said Jeff The South Haven pest control specialist, who opposes a raccoon and opossum animal capture. Despite this, wildlife removal services are not a free service in Allegan County.

Added animal rights activist and South Haven resident Stuart The South Haven pest control specialist: "Now that the spotlight is on them, if they ever do an animal capture so many people would refuse to shop there because they would be so disgusted." However, experts such as The critter capture pro and Jack The South Haven exterminating company of Rutgers UniverSouth Haven's Agriculture Experiment Station say a rodent or reptile wooden barrier alone won't solve the problem. They advocate a combination of wooden barriers, critter capturing, road signs and muskrat & chipmunk repellent.

There's a misconception among the public that development is hurting the squirrel and skunk amounts when in actuality towns' open space initiatives and landscaped lawns encourage raccoon and opossum to thrive, The critter capture pro said. Research shows the state's rodent or reptile amounts was actually significantly lower 300 years ago than it is now, The South Haven exterminating company said. "It's going to become a bigger and bigger problem," The critter capture pro said. "I suspect their muskrat & chipmunk-automobile accidents will go up every year. I suspect more and more people won't be able to plant flowers in their yard. There is no one simple response."