Got Backyard Wildlife Problems? April 14 Workshop Has Solutions

This news release originally appeared on the website of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences and was written by Kurt Knebusch. 

 

CORTLAND, Ohio — A key to handling backyard wildlife problems, from smelly skunks to ravenous raccoons, hungry deer to messy geese, is making your backyard a worse place to be.

 

For them, that is, not you.

 

“If you can identify the component of the habitat that’s attracting an animal to your yard — usually it’s food or shelter — and then can modify or eliminate it, you’ll go a long way to solving the conflict,” said Marne Titchenell of The Ohio State University. She’ll share that and other remedies in a workshop April 14.

 

Titchenell is a wildlife program specialist in Ohio State’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

 

The workshop, called The Good, the Bad and the Hungry: Controlling Nuisance Wildlife in the Home Landscape, is from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Trumbull County Agriculture and Family Education Center in Cortland in northeast Ohio.

 

The Ohio Woodland Stewards Program is the event’s sponsor. The college’s outreach arm, Ohio State University Extension, runs the program.

 

“We’ll talk about fencing, trapping, repellants, resistant plants and habitat management, to name a few,” said Titchenell, who’s a member of the program. “That last one, habitat management, is an important tool for dealing with any wildlife conflict.”

 

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