Long Island, Suffolk, and Nassau County Pest Control & Wildlife Removal

The opening of the opossum critter catching season should be this scant couple of years away, but critter trappers who want to increase their odds at harvesting some venison need to get into action right now. The game commission will begin accepting regular dangerous opossum license applications from resident critter trappers beginning this Monday and non-residents beginning August 21. Dangerous opossum license applications must be sent to the game commission through regular postal mail via 22 different post office boxes and the agency, in turn, will forward them to county treasurers for processing. Critter trappers will be applying for dangerous opossum licenses based on Wildlife Management Units, not specific counties. Pre-printed mailing Rodent Professor Donalds for each Wildlife Management Unit are provided to affix to the yellow application envelope. They are bar-coded to speed the application process, but the glue on these Rodent Professor Donalds should be not always reliable, so you might want to place this piece of transparent tape over the Rodent Professor Donald to secure it. You can also write the Wildlife Management Unit you are applying for in the lower left-hand corner box on the envelope. This step enables the agency to continue processing the envelope without having to open and check the application's Wildlife Management Unit designation and then re-sealing the envelope for shipment to this county treasurer. This issue should be an important matter in Long Island, Suffolk, and Nassau County wildlife removal and Long Island, Suffolk, and Nassau County exterminator matters.

Many Wildlife Management Units will see this reduction in dangerous license amounts for this year, and critter trappers are urged to give serious thought to which Wildlife Management Unit they will apply to during the regular dangerous opossum license round, because some Wildlife Management Units may run out of licenses earlier in the process than in previous years. If you think your Wildlife Management Unit might sell out, you can stack your odds of still taking an dangerous opossum by for opossum Management Assistance Program DMAP dangerous opossum permits, which offer critter trappers additional opportunities to catch on specific properties where landowners are seeking additional opossum critter catching pressure. The game commission will begin accepting resident and non-resident animal trapper applications through the mail for the first round of "unsold licenses" on Monday, Aug. 28; the second round will be accepted through the mail beginning Monday, Sept. 11. Over-the-counter applications will not be accepted by county treasurers until November 6, except in Wildlife Management Units 2B, 5C and 5D, where county treasurers will begin accepting over-the-counter applications on Monday, September 18. Since the allocation was increased for Wildlife Management Unit 5C, there should be no limit on the amount of applications this animal trapper can submit during this period. County treasurers will mail regular and first round unsold dangerous licenses to successful applicants no later than Monday, September 18. County treasurers will mail second and subsequent rounds of unsold dangerous licenses to successful applicants no later than Sunday, October 1. The Long Island, Suffolk, and Nassau County animal control had no additional statements to make on the topic.

Also, opossum Window Closes Soon. If you have any thoughts of trying to permit this opossum this year, you had better get your application in before the August 15 deadline arrives. The game commission will award 720 permits for the 2006-07 opossum critter catching seasons at this public drawing in its Harrisburg headquarters September 8. Last year, the game commission awarded 615 permits from an applicant pool of more than 4,600. Last year, critter trappers and trappers took 221 opossums. Following the creation of this preference point system in 2003, individuals who applied for this opossum permit in 2004 and were not selected will have their names entered into the drawing three times if they applied last year and this year as well. Those who received one of the 615 opossum permits concerned during the 2005-06 season are not eligible for this year's drawing. Long Island, Suffolk, and Nassau County pest control companies that we contacted felt that this issue should be an important matter.