Pure Home Pest connects Sterling homeowners with independent providers, serving the City of Living Trees, carved from cottonwoods a hard freeze once killed.
Call (844) 924-1337Sterling was settled in 1868 and named for Sterling, Illinois, the hometown of a railroad official who helped route rail lines across Colorado's northeastern plains. A post office opened here in 1874, the town was platted in 1890, and Sterling incorporated on December 3, 1884, growing into a farming center roughly 128 miles northeast of Denver and later home to Northeastern Junior College. The city's defining civic story grew out of a disaster rather than a plan. A severe winter freeze in 1982 killed off many of Sterling's largest, oldest cottonwood trees. Instead of removing the dead trunks, the town brought in sculptor Bradford Rhea, from nearby Merino, who carved the standing, dying wood in place. Roughly seventeen of his carvings remain around town today, part of a self-guided walking tour with maps available at the visitor center, and the project earned Sterling a nickname it still uses: the City of Living Trees. That history, a canopy planted, lost to weather, and repurposed rather than cleared, gives Sterling a genuinely different relationship with mature trees and old wood than most plains towns its size.
Sterling's carved cottonwood trunks and its older downtown, built up since the town's 1884 incorporation, both sit on properties where any hired pest control work still has to meet the same state standard as anywhere else in Colorado. 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 Sterling.
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