Pure Home Pest connects Montrose homeowners with independent providers, serving a Western Slope city named for the title figure of a Sir Walter Scott novel.
Call (844) 924-1337Montrose owes its name to a novel, not a founder's surname or a landscape feature. Joseph Selig, a German immigrant, learned through his contacts among other Western Slope settlers that the Denver and Rio Grande railroad planned to push west from Gunnison into the Uncompahgre Valley. He staked the first townsite claim in December 1881, and the settlement spent its earliest months cycling through names that never stuck: Pomona, Dad's Town, and Uncompahgre Town all came and went before Selig proposed Montrose, borrowed from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel A Legend of Montrose. The book's central figure, James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose, was a Royalist commander in Scotland's Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and one account holds that the valley itself reminded Selig of Scotland's lake country. The town was established under that name in 1882. Montrose's early economy grew around its position as a supply point for the San Juan mining camps at Ouray, Silverton, Telluride, and Durango. As that mining traffic leveled off, agriculture took over as the valley's defining industry.
Montrose's shift from a mining supply depot to an irrigated farming valley didn't change what Colorado requires of anyone treating pests on those properties today. Colorado regulates pest control through the Department of Agriculture's pesticide licensing program rather than a dedicated structural pest control board. Anyone applying pesticides for compensation must hold a Commercial Applicator license in the specific category matching the work performed, and must pass a proctored exam for every category in which they plan to work. Licenses are valid for three years and expire on the applicator's birthdate. Nuisance wildlife removal sits outside this system almost entirely: Colorado Parks and Wildlife does not require a permit to remove most nuisance wildlife from a property, since state law leaves that determination to the landowner, though professional operators typically still carry CPW authorization along with liability insurance. Call (844) 924-1337 and we can point you toward a provider who covers Montrose.
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