18th Annual Wildlife Control

Instructional Seminar

January 16 - 18, 2012

Las Vegas, NV

Sponsored by:

Supported by:

Rick Shadel

Rick is the president and co-founder of S & S Wildlife Control Services Inc. located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.   Rick’s experience includes 17 years operating a nuisance wildlife control company and providing exclusion services for mice, bats, snakes, squirrels, raccoons and other species. These exclusion techniques are outside the normal realm of historic pest control. His prior work experience is in residential /commercial construction, and low and medium voltage wiring.  

Certifications, Memberships and Licenses

• CWCP-Certified Wildlife Control Professional, Industry award (2002) for completion of 100 developmental hours by the National Wildlife Operators Control Association.

• Bat Conversation International (BCI) certified bat excluder

• Member of the National Wildlife Control Operators Association.  (NWCOA)

• Member of the PA Wildlife Control Operators Association (PANWCOA)

• Past State Representative for NWCOA  (2007-2008)

• Past Vice-President of PA Wildlife Control Operators Association  (PANWCOA) 2008-2009

• CGMP-Certified Goose Management Professional, Industry certificate (2002) for completion of training in Canada Goose abatement by the National Wildlife Operators Control Association.   (NWCOA)

• Pennsylvania applicators license    class 15, vertebrates,  Expiration  2011

Speaker/Presenter at the following Industry Training events on the topic of wildlife exclusion and control.

·        Wildlife Control Technologies seminar,  Las Vegas 2006,  2007, 2011

·        Wildlife Control Technologies seminar,   Cincinnati, Ohio 2008  

·        Wildlife Control Technologies seminar,   Charlotte,  N. Carolina 2010  

·        Orkin Gulf Coast annual meeting 2008

·        Vertebrate Pest Conference, San Diego, Calif  2008

·        National Pest Management Association (NPMA) bird and wildlife seminar

     St Louis, MO    2008

·        New Jersey Wildlife Control Operators Annual Conference    2008

·        National Pest Management Association (NPMA) northeast regional seminar  2009

·        Colorado Operators annual Conference 2009

·        Connecticut Operators annual Conference 2009

·        New York Operators annual Conference  2006, 2007, 2009, 2011

         National Pest Management Association (NPMA) bird and wildlife seminar      

         Indianapolis, IN 2009

·        Purdue University Fur Takers of American short course    2006, 2007, 2008, 2009,

         2010, 2011

·        National Pest Management Association (NPMA) bird and wildlife seminar,

         Indianapolis, IN   2010

Speaker/Presenter at the following local events on the topic of wildlife exclusion

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         Penn State Master Gardeners certification sessions  2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.   

         Dauphin,  Lebanon,  Cumberland Counties.

·        Pennsylvania Garden Expo,  Harrisburg, PA. February  2006, 2007, 2008

·        Mid Atlantic Garden Expo, York, PA   March 2009

Training, Literature and inventions offered by S & S Wildlife Control Services Inc.

Custom designed training programs offered to the wildlife control industry including:

• Exclusion and repair

• Inspection and diagnosis of entry

• Trapping and removal

• Noise and odor diagnosis and treatment

• Bio-hazard clean-up

• Yard Invader-Home Invader identification and remediation field guide and handbook for industry professionals including field and office staff, second printing.

• Vertical expansion joint for structural exclusion of large vertical gaps.

• ‘P’ and ‘T’ channels for structural exclusion of large horizontal gaps.

• Stainless steel vent guard vent protectors.

• Multi live catch bird trap for Box stores.

The S & S client base includes industrial, municipal, residential, commercial and agricultural customers throughout central and eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware.

S & S provides remediation services for all vertebrate species from bats to white tail deer.   The company specializes in structural exclusion services utilizing unique solutions that exceed common industry exclusion practices. These creative solutions provide customers with an aesthetic, long term, ‘value-adding’  and functional  “fix”  for bats, mice, snakes, birds, squirrels, shrews,  raccoons, rats and more.      

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