ENY 5332 Graduate Survey of Urban Vertebrate Pest Management
Description
This course covers vertebrate pests and their control in the urban environment, principally structural and landscape pests. Much of the information is also applicable to nursery settings.
Course Format
Online
Course Goals
Upon course completion, students will be able to:
- Identify the common species of wildlife, commensal birds and rodents, and invasive vertebrate species that can cause nuisance situations in residential, suburban, commercial, and rural interface properties.
- Know the basic natural history of these common species, such as food habits, nesting/roosting /denning habits, characteristic home range size, and reproductive season.
- Recognize the likely species causing identifiable types of damage using tracks, droppings, marks, structural damage, and other signs.
- Recommend legal control options (lethal and nonlethal) to manage the property or livestock damage caused by nuisance vertebrate species.
