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Structure of Today’s Seminar

• We must mute phones to prevent excessive noise

• We will monitor the chat

• When you leave the webinar: • A survey appears

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Today’s Speakers

Matt Lightner SchoolDude.com

Roger Young FacilityMastersOnline.com

Paul Duerre Killeen ISD, Texas

Lynn Braband

NYS Community IPM Program of Cornell University, NY

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Endorsements

State of New Mexico Public School Facilities Authority

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Importance

• Health and Safety

• Ongoing Annoyance

• Protect Capital Investment

of Community

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Paul Duerre

Lynn Braband

Managing Birds and Bats

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• 42,000 students

• Next to Ft Hood

• 50 Campuses

– 8 Located on Ft. Hood

• High performing district

• 3rd Fastest Growing

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The New York State

Integrated Pest Management Program

Cornell University

– Develop sustainable ways to manage pests

– Help people to use methods that minimize environmental, health, and economic risks

http://www.nysipm.cornell.edu

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Introduction

• Cultural role of wildlife in American society

• Conflicts with wildlife

• Regulatory authorities

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Points to Consider -

• Is it necessary

• Know the law

• Health and safety concerns

• Humaneness

• Effectiveness

• Practicality

• Social context

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Birds

• Regulatory agencies

– US Fish and Wildlife Service

– State wildlife agency

– State pesticide regulatory agency

• for registered pesticide use including repellents and reproductive inhibitors

• “Unprotected” species

– Rock pigeon, European starling, house sparrow

• “Protected” species

– Canada Goose, Gulls, others

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Issues

• Nuisance situations

• Health hazards (especially droppings)

• Property damage

– roof corrosion from dropping accumulation; geese grazing/trampling turf

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Best Management Practices

• Constituency Communications

– Written expectations of district concerning problem bird attractants

– Feeding pest birds especially problematic

– Fact sheet distribution on specific issues

– Persistent or major problems: district policy

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Best Management Practices

• Exclusion (best approach when applicable)

– Netting

– Spikes

– Post-and-wire

– Electrified systems

– Suspended strips

– Grid and parallel wires

– Landscape changes

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Electrified Systems

Post and Wire

Spikes

PVC Strips Daddy LL

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Netting

Parallel Lines

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Swallow

Mud nests

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Pond Grid Wires

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Best Management Practices

• Fear-Provoking Stimuli

– General comments (habituation) – “Simple” devices (plastic owls, Scarey Eye balloons)

– Heli-kites – Auditory stimuli – Dogs/falcons/models (as fake coyotes) – Lasers

Movement Install/Uninstall

Incorporate Reinforcement • Yellow scarecrows

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Scary Eye Balloon

Coyote Border Collie

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Heli-kites

Lasers

Abatement Falconry

Sound

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Best Management Practices

• Chemical Repellents

– Polybutene contact (touch)

– Taste (as methyl anthranilate)

– Sprays

– Foggers

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Best Management Practices

• Trapping

– best approach if lethal control desired)

• Translocation

• Reproduction Inhibition

– Eggs

– Ovo-control

• Delay Habituation

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Translocation

Ovo-Control

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Bird Traps

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Managing Birds – Bottom Line

• Use a variety of approaches

– Each situation is different

– Behavior changes

• Continue to monitor

Courtesy of

Dempsy Winans

Mansfield ISD, TX

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Bats

• General comments – Whitenose Syndrome

• Common myths/misconceptions – Associated with "evil"

• (spooky movies, vampires)

– They want to "get in my hair"

– Most bats have rabies

– "Fruit" bats occur throughout the United States

• Regulatory authorities

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Issues

• Nuisance situations

• Roosts, especially maternal

• Zoonotic disease

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Approaches

• Education

• Remove an individual bat – From an occupied space

• Established process and procedures • Notification to staff • Certified specialist

• Bat-proofing structures

• Bat houses

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Check Valve Bat

Bat House

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Importance of a Maintenance Management System

• Operations Professionals – Safe Learning Environment – Technology solutions help to manage the maintenance process – Work order program

• Work Order System

– Improves transparency – Increases productivity – Streamlines work requests – Accountability

• Tracks Progress and Expenses

– Organize Work Orders – Shows the Workload – Demonstrates the needs of the department

• Documentation

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Resources

– www.facilitymastersonline.com/resources

• NYS Community IPM Program – www.nysipm.cornell.edu

• Texas Integrated Pest Management Affiliate for Public Schools – http://tipmaps.org/

• School IPM 2015 – www.ipminstitute.org/school_ipm_2015.htm

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Resources

• Texas Agrilife Extension – http://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/

• Bat Conservation International

– www.batcon.org

• Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management

– www.icwdm.org

• Urban IPM Community of Practice – http://www.extension.org/pages/30797/partners-of-urban-integrated-pest-

managment

• National School IPM Information Source (Univ. Florida)

– http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/

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Tips to Manage Pests Using SchoolDude to track and analyze information

Matt Lightner SchoolDude.com

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Maintenance Direct – (MD)

• Automates the work flow process

• Report issues quickly / track progress

• Documents status of work

• Helps to ensure a safe, clean, well maintained environment

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Submit a work order

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Automatic updates for requester

And organization for your organization

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Easy reporting and analysis

-PDF -Excel -Graphs

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PM Direct

• Identifies the inspection process and work to be undertaken - proactive

• Documents regular task and procedure inspection processes

• Pest management templates included

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Proactive: Recurring Scheduling for Pest Management

-Establish a scheduled series of inspections

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PM Schedule and Templates

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PM Calendar

Resulting work orders auto-generate with task lists

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Inventory Direct

• Inventory of supplies and equipment

– such as chemical repellent, netting, spikes, and wires

• Helps to insure that supplies are on hand to manage birds and bats

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Supplies Used in Management of Birds and Bats

Identify the items to pull from stock before the work order is generated or record the transaction after the job is done

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Inventory reporting to see where resources are used

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What can SchoolDude do for me?

• Streamline the request and response of pest management issues

• Document all tasks completed and inventory used with regard to pest management

• Generate quick, accessible reports for administration and regulatory authorities

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Download this presentation, resources, and more at:

www.FacilityMastersOnline.com/webcasts www.schooldude.com/resources www.myschooldude.com

Matt Lightner SchoolDude.com mlightner@schooldude.com

Roger Young, roger@FacilityMastersOnline.com

Paul Duerre, Paul.Duerre@killeenisd.org

Lynn Braband, lab45@cornell.edu