Eco-Friendly
From ecological awards to IPM certifications Cascade’s environmental reputation shows we care.
Pet Safe
Our treatment methods are designed for pet safety. In fact, we enjoy getting to know your pet(s).
Family Safe
Peace of mind knowing our methods and products are approved for hospitals and day care facilities.
Trustworthy
Each technician has been background checked, as well as state licensed.
Protected from Pests
Working to prevent pests—their stings & bites, the disease they spread, and their damage.
Highly Rated
Well-respected after 46+ years as reflected in our 4.8 Star rating.
Cascade’s Environmental-Health Record
Environmental Health refers to the healthiness of a living or working space for people.
Cascade cares about the overall human health in homes or businesses where we provide pest management services. We care about reducing harm from pests and the pathogens they carry, and we care about the products and methods we choose to provide this service.
Starting clear back in the 1980’s, long before it was fashionable, we found ways to reduce reliance on pesticides overall, and the products we did choose were least-toxic to humans, and had less, if any, impact on the environment.
For this effort Cascade Pest Control earned a number of environmental recognition awards.
What is Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and why does it matter?
An example of daily IPM practiced at Cascade Pest Control is our rodent exclusion services.
Upon a thorough inspection to determine where rats or mice are entering the structure—often into a home’s attic or the foundation crawlspace—we seal those gaps and openings.
This action stops rodents from gaining easy access to the home. Some combination of traps and rodenticides are also part of the immediate process to eliminate the original infestation. Then periodic monitoring and some form of control continues to protect the home from reinfestation.
This stands in stark contrast to where an infestation of rats or mice in a home are only responded to with rodenticides.
Entomological Society of America Certifications
Cascade is proud to work with the Entomological Society of America in certifying a growing number of our staff around integrated pest management (IPM). And IPM results in increased safety to people, pets, and the environment.
The Entomological Society of America is an academic institution dedicated to those who work with insects and other arthropods (entomologists and related fields). That being the case, this is third-party certifying organization—and a prestigious one at that.
Certified IPM Technicians
These ESA certifications demonstrate our commitment to Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices, and include the following:
- Cascade Pest Control has a number of Associate Certified Entomologists on staff. We also have a number of Certified IPM Technicians on staff.
- Kurt Treftz, Cascade Pest Control Director, earned the ACE of The Year Award in 2024.
What role do pesticides play in Cascade’s approach to pest management?
Firstly, the word pesticide refers to a wide range of products, some of the extremely safe and some of them quite toxic. If you use mint oil to repel or kill insects then it, by definition, is being used as a pesticide. So, “pesticide” can be anything from a plant extract, chemical, or mineral used to in some way manage a pest insect or rodent. An example of this is where Cascade has used linalool—an extract from orange peels—to control fleas.
As previously mentioned, Cascade utilizes integrated pest management (IPM) in our approach to pest control which reduces reliance on pesticides. Additionally, we select products that have been painstakingly vetted by the EPA for use in restaurants and hospitals before we use them in homes.
Safety to the natural environment and wildlife.
As previously stated Cascade has a unique early history earning a number of environmental awards. Best we know, we are the only pest management company to have earned a distinction from the EPA—the US Environmental Protection Agency. [again link to our awards page]
Birds of Prey – a specific issue of Safety:
Besides maintaining safety for people —including small children—we need to be safe around pets in the yard and whatever wildlife that frequents the area. There is a potential risk of secondary poisoning of raptors—hawks, and the like—after eating rats and/or mice that have consumed certain rodenticides. Cascade Pest Control is aware of this concern and is committed to continually improving our methods and practices to mitigate this risk.
Safety from Pests and the Pathogens they carry.
It is important to remember that the primary basis for pest management is safety itself: to keep people, their pets, and their belongings safe from damage from pests, safe from injury from stings or bites, and safe from the diseases that pests carry. Pest control for your home is a form of sanitation that keeps you safe. This is why pest management was considered an essential service during the COVID pandemic.
