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Pest Management
The best way to solve a pesticide-related problem often combines regulatory action and voluntary adoption of improved pest management methods. DPR has a legal mandate to encourage the use of environmentally sound pest management, including integrated pest management (IPM). Many DPR programs stress a least-toxic approach to pest management and promote risk reduction through information, encouragement, incentives, and community-based problem solving.
About pest management and pesticides
- What to do about bugs, weeds, and other pests
- Fact sheets about pesticides, safe pesticide use, and reducing pesticide use
- School IPM HELPR - Pest management recommendations and related summaries of health effects data. Oriented to schools but helpful to consumers, too.
- Structural Pest Control Board licenses and regulates structural pest control businesses and professionals
DPR programs to increase use of reduced-risk pest management
- Pest Management and Analysis program - Focuses on IPM-based solutions to pest management problems
- IPM Innovator Awards
- Pest Management Grants - Alliance and research grant programs
- School and childcare IPM - Promotes adoption of IPM by schools and child care facilities
- Environmental Monitoring Branch - Analyzes pesticide hazards in air and water and develops pollution prevention strategies
Publications
- Pest Management Strategy (1995)
- Strategic Plan
- A Guide to Pesticide Regulation in California (2011)
- Conservation Management Practices Guide: Reducing Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Emissions from Agricultural Pesticide Applications, PDF (431 kb)
- Other publications from DPR’s Pest Management and Analysis
For content questions, contact:
Marshall Lee
Department of Pesticide Regulation
Pest Management & Licensing Branch
P.O. Box 4015
Sacramento, CA 95812-4015
Telephone: (916) 324-4269
Fax: (916) 324-9006
E-mail: mlee@cdpr.ca.gov