Alan Merrifield

Alan MerrifieldOne of my NWCO friends recently told me a story that made my blood boil.He told me of a conversation he had with an enforcement official working for a state regulatory board on the subject of performing bird control work on buildings.My friend, who is a bird control expert with many years experience, wanted to bid on a public works project to exclude pest birds from a state-owned facility, but thought he'd better check on the licensing requirements for the job before submitting his bid.So he phoned Sacramento and was shocked at the treatment he received.According to my friend, the Enforcement Officer threatened him with prosecution, a thousand dollar fine and possible jail time if he proceeded to bid on that bird control project without having a Branch 2, Structural Pest Control License.When I spoke to my friend, shortly after this conversation, I could sense the intimidation and fear in his voice.He had decided not to bid on that contract after all.Instead, he was thinking about finding a PCO no longer working under his Branch 2 license and adding him to his payroll in order to register his company and thus qualify for future structural bird control bids.

Later that evening, after I cooled off and had a chance to relax, I started recalling those old Eliot Ness, Untouchables programs I used to see on TV.All too often, the show featured a story of some hard-working guy trying to make a living in his little neighborhood shop.One day a couple of gangsters drop by to inform the guy he's working in a very dangerous environment, and that if he was smart, he'd get himself a little protection for his business.When the guy asked what they meant, he was told that "Carmine, his new business partner, would be coming in each day to provide all the protection he would need to survive in that neighborhood.

The California Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators Association (CNWCOA) has joined Urban Wildlife Management, Inc. and its President, Alan Merrifield in a civil rights lawsuit against the State of California.
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Merrifield, and the other Plaintiffs who filed the federal civil rights complaint, seek to challenge the constitutionality of Section 8555(g) of the California Business and Professions Code, which effectively prohibits and criminalizes any act to control rats, mice or pigeons in, on, or under any house, building or other structure when that control is performed by someone other than an Exterminator possessing a Branch 2 Structural Pest Control License.
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Since Merrifield and the other Plaintiffs are "Wildlife Control Operators" (not "Structural Pest Control Operators"), they do not use poisons or other pesticides to control birds or other vertebrates in buildings.
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Plaintiffs charge the State, its Departments, and it regulatory employees, with conspiring to prevent Merrifield, Urban Wildlife Management, Inc., and others similarly situated, from pursuing their fundamental rights to life, liberty and property when they acted in concert to prevent Plaintiffs from submitting and/or winning bids for public works projects or barring them from attending bidders meetings, or when these Defendants threatened WCOs with fines, jail terms, loss of phone service and business closure for engaging in, or offering to engage in, non-pesticide control of rats, mice and/or pigeons.

The Defendants named in this lawsuit are: the Governor; the California Legislature; the Structural Pest Control Board; the Department of Pesticide Regulation; the Contractors State Licensing Board; the Department of General Services; the Department of Transportation; and various State employees who have been directly involved with the unlawful enactment and/or enforcement of the wildlife control statute being challenged.

Ironically, Merrifield is a state-licensed Contractor specializing in Animal Damage and Bird Control, he is a state-licensed Animal Trapper and he has operated a state-license Pest Control Business for many years.He is also a Nationally Certified Wildlife Control Professional and a Certified Installer of Bird Exclusion Products.
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ALAN MERRIFIELD, an individual doing business as URBAN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; URBAN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT, INC., a California corporation individually and as successor in interest to ALAN MERRIFIELD dba URBAN; CALIFORNIA NUISANCE WILDLIFE CONTROL OPERATORS ASSOCIATION, INC. a California corporation,

Alan Merrifield, President, Urban Wildlife Management, San Francisco, CA
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Alan Merrifield, State Director, NWCOA

DPR Continuing Education Units Approved 7
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NWCO Host - Alan Merrifield
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NWCO Host - Alan Merrifield
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Laws & Regs - Keeping Up With Recent Changes, Alan Merrifield, Owner

"They're really cute when they're little," says Alan Merrifield, owner of Urban Wildlife Management in Burlingame.
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"They get up into your attic," says Merrifield, whose company deals with such animal invasions.

Owner: Alan Merrifield25A N. Holt Hill Rd.P.O. Box 1344, Hillsboro

This business has been formed as an S-Corporation and is managed by Alan Merrifield who serves as the corporation's president.