Dead Animal Removal in Bloomsburg, PA

Why Bloomsburg Has the Dead-Animal Calls It Does

Bloomsburg is the only incorporated town in Pennsylvania — every other municipality is a city, borough, or township — and it anchors Columbia County's roughly 66,000 residents on the North Branch of the Susquehanna. Fishing Creek runs down from the Ricketts Glen highlands to meet the river at Bloomsburg, and that confluence is the county's defining feature and its recurring problem: the town has flooded repeatedly and severely, and post-flood work regularly turns up displaced or drowned wildlife in basements, crawlspaces, and outbuildings well after the water drops. Commonwealth University's Bloomsburg campus adds a student-rental stock that empties over breaks. Deer-vehicle collisions concentrate on I-80, US-11, PA-42, and PA-487.

Common species calls in greater Bloomsburg: Most-called species across Columbia County: deer (Fishing Creek and Susquehanna corridors onto I-80, peak Oct-Dec rut), raccoon (Bloomsburg and Berwick's older stock plus student rentals; primary PA rabies vector), groundhog, skunk, opossum, muskrat and beaver along the river, and black bear toward the Ricketts Glen highlands. Post-flood basement and crawlspace recoveries are a recurring local pattern.

Pickup jurisdiction in Bloomsburg: Columbia County does not operate a county health department — only seven Pennsylvania counties do. It is served by the Columbia County State Health Center under the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Town, borough, and township public works handle right-of-way carcasses; PennDOT covers I-80, US-11, PA-42, and PA-487. DCNR administers Ricketts Glen State Park on the county's northern edge. Private property — including student rental property, where responsibility sits with the owner — is the owner's responsibility. Roadway deer and bear fall to the Pennsylvania Game Commission Northeast Region office (3917 Memorial Highway, Dallas — 570-675-1143).

Neighborhoods in and around Bloomsburg: Bloomsburg, Berwick, Catawissa, Millville, Orangeville, Benton, Espy, Lightstreet, Mifflinville, Briar Creek.

All Bloomsburg field work is performed by independent partner operators, following the Pennsylvania Domestic Animal Act (PA Department of Agriculture) and PA DOH rabies-vector protocols (PA DOH rabies-vector guidance).