Hey everybody it's Joe. I've got an encore episode for you today and next week as part of our podcast production team is taking some much needed time off

But I've scoured the archives and I'm bringing you one that we've never replayed before, but it's a topic that is always timely and universally applicable.

And that is wildlife management.

Had a best deal with wildlife that you don't want visiting your garden and landscape.

And ironically, kind of, we talk so much about attracting wildlife, but that's a completely

different set of creatures. Today it's about how to keep the destructive ones out. It's a good one and I hope

you find some great takeaways. I'll see you back here in real time after the interview with some updates

and current announcements.

Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

and welcome to the Joe Gardner show.

Today we're talking about something nearly every gardener deals with, if not on a daily basis more often than you'd like and that is

wildlife control whatever size or shape challenges you we're going to try to talk about a few of the most common characters that the majority of us deal with across the country.

Now, we won't be able to address many of them actually, just a few today, but that's not to say that we won't come back and discuss those later

and I know that this is something that we just can't seem to get enough information on and

I'd like to tell you ahead of this interview that there are some groundbreaking,

earth-shattering new developments on how we control and manage those nuisance wildlife creatures

that make their way into our gardens and our landscapes.

There are not really.

But what we're going to accomplish today, with the help of Marty Tichenel, she is a wildlife program specialist

at Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, we will talk about some of the

techniques that do work as well as some of the things that do not work and sometimes

that's just as important as we manage our expectations and our pocketbooks. So we'll fill the time today with

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