ABOUT US

Professional Experience

Urban Wildlife Management, Inc has provided animal damage control and nuisance wildlife management services for Bay Area residents and businesses since 1978. This business has been formed as an S-Corporation and is managed by Alan Merrifield who serves as the corporation's president.Urban Wildlife Management, Inc operates under the legal authority of the following State and City licenses:

  • Animal Damage and Bird Control Contractors D-64 License - No. 808693
    Contractors State License Board
  • Pest Control Business License - No. 01873
    Department of Pesticide Regulation
  • Business License - No. B60632
    City of San Mateo, CA
  • Qualified Applicators License - No. 37700
    Category A, Residential, Industrial & Institutional
    Department of Pesticide Regulation
  • Trappers License
    Department of Fish & Game

·         Alan Merrifield - License No.64492

·         Harold Gain - License No.7780

  • Predator Trapping License No. D0035
    Department of Fish & Game

 

Professional Certifications:

  • Certified Wildlife Control Professional
    National Wildlife Control Operators Association
  • Certificate of Competency - "Wildlife Handling and Restraint"
    Wildlife Investigations Laboratory
    California Department of Fish and Game
  • Certified Bird Control Products Installer
    Bird Barrier America, Inc.
  • Exclusive Dealer, Northern California
    Birdblaster California
  • Certified Small Business
    California Department of General Services
  • Euthanasia of Distressed & Displaced Wild Animals
    Humane Society of the United States
  • Bird Strike Committee, U.S/Canada
    U.S. Department of Agriculture / FAA
  • Electronic Air Purification Systems
    Alpine Industries

 

Affiliations:

 

  • National Wildlife Control Operators Association (NWCOA)
  • California Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators Association (CNWCOA)
  • Pesticide Applicators Professional Association (PAPA)
  • The Better Business Bureau

 

Financial responsibility

 

  •  General Liability Insurance - Aegis Insurance Company
  •  Workers Compensation Insurance - Clarendon National Insurance Company
  •  Contractors License Bond - International Business & Mercantile Reassurance Company

 

Areas of professional expertise:

Control of wild animals posing a threat to the public's health or safety, damaging real or personal property, or creating a nuisance situation at peoples' residences or places of work. Typical animals might include: raccoons, skunks, opossums, bobcats, foxes, coyotes, tree squirrels, feral pigs, feral cats, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, moles, bats, rattlesnakes, and a variety of pest birds.

Provision of such nuisance wildlife related services as advice and consultation, animal-proofing, exclusion and repulsion, eviction, repair, trapping and removal, euthanasia and/or relocation, habitat modification, and property clean-up, sanitizing, and odor elimination.

We do not provide any of the following services:

  • We do not respond to calls regarding pets, livestock or other domesticated animals
  • We do not rehabilitate injured or orphaned wild animals
  • We do not pick up dead animals from public roads and highways
  • We do not provide animal boarding services
  • We do not sell or buy wild animals or any parts thereof
  • We do not use poison for the control of pest birds

 

References

Bird Control

  • City of Redwood City, Police Department
  • City of Redwood City, Public Library
  • City of South San Francisco, Police & Fire Station
  • San Mateo County, Department of Public Works
  • Sam Trans, San Carlos
  • Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • Millbrae Square Shopping Center
  • Main Street Shopping Center, Los Gatos
  • Skyline Shopping Center, Daly City
  • Buri Buri Shopping Center, So. S.F.
  • Metro Center, Foster City
  • Moffitt Field, Blimp Hangar
  • Marriott Airport Hotel, Burlingame
  • Mollie Stone's Market, Redwood City
  • Cala Foods, San Francisco
  • Bell Market, San Francisco
  • Pacific Market, Daly City
  • Menlo Station, Menlo Park
  • University of San Francisco
  • San Francisco State University
  • University of California, San Francisco
  • University of Santa Clara
  • Stanford West, Palo Alto
  • Holy Names College, Oakland
  • Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City
  • U.S. Navy, Rough & Ready Island, Stockton
  • Leisure Gardens, Vacaville
  • San Carlos Elms, San Carlos
  • Schlage Lock, San Francisco
  • Cow Palace, Daly City
  • Keenan Land Company, Palo Alto
  • Belevedere Land Company
  • Reeve-Knight Construction, Inc.Walnut Creek
  • Franciscan Property Management, San Carlos
  • Marathon Property Management, San Francisco
  • Massingham Property Management, Fremont
  • Manor Property Management
  • Whitley Property Management, Redwood City
  • Terra Nova High School, Pacifica
  • American Airlines, San Francisco
  • United Airlines, San Francisco
  • Japan Airlines, San Francisco
  • Exxon Service Station, Redwood City
  • Valero Refining Company, Walnut Creek
  • General Services Administration (GSA)
  • Bay Meadows Race Course
  • United States Steel - POSCO, Pittsburg, CA

Nuisance Animal Control

  • Moffitt Field, Mountain View
  • Sierra Point, Brisbane
  • Culligan Management, San Mateo
  • Robinson & Associates Property Mgmt.
  • Sunquest Properties, San Francisco
  • Brookfield Homes, Brisbane
  • Western Pacific Housing, San Francisco
  • Archstone, Redwood Shores
  • Brisbane School District
  • San Francisco Unified School District
  • Jefferson Unified School District
  • San Mateo County Schools
  • San Mateo Arboretum Society, San Mateo
  • Town of Colma
  • Hillsborough City Schools
  • Coyote Point Museum, San Mateo
  • Coastside Water District, HMB
  • Carlmont Shopping Center, Belmont
  • Sequoia Union High School District
  • Sprint Spectrum, San Mateo County
  • San Francisco State University
  • University of San Francisco
  • Immaculate Heart Monastery, Los Altos Hills
  • St. Gabriel's Church, San Francisco
  • St Bartholomew's Church, San Francisco
  • St. Francis Lutheran Church, San Francisco
  • Keenan Land Company
  • Raytheon Support Services.
  • Quadrus, Menlo Park
  • Various Homeowners Associations
  • Various Private Property Owners

Cleanup & Sanitizing

  • City of San Bruno, Street Dept.
  • City of San Bruno, Code Enforcement
  • City of Millbrae, Code Enforcement
  • City of Redwood City, Redevelopment Agency
  • City of South San Francisco, Redevelopment Agency
  • City of Daly City, Code Enforcement
  • City of Menlo Park, Code Enforcement
  • City of San Mateo, Code Enforcement
  • San Mateo County, Aging & Adult Services
  • San Mateo County, Environmental Health Dept.
  • Sprint, PCS, Pleasanton
  • United California Bank, San Francisco
  • Various Private Conservators
  • Various Property Management Companies
  • Various Realty Companies

Electronic Air Purification & Odor Control

  • San Carlos School District
  • St. Emydius Church
  • Clay Hermann Realty Co.
  • Ann Christine & Company
  • Manor Property Management Company
  • Massingham Property Management Company