WDCO rate card
Paid assessment, impromptu call, and follow-on service rates.
Use this public rate card before starting a Maryland wildlife damage assessment request or calling the published WDCO number. Property-specific wildlife damage calls are paid client routing, not free public support.
$50.00 covers pre-call review plus a scheduled or otherwise authorized WDCO phone/email assessment of up to 30 minutes. Authorized impromptu WDCO assessment calls are billed at $150.00 for up to 30 minutes during business hours (Monday-Friday, 10 AM-10 PM Eastern). After-hours or emergency impromptu calls are double rate: $300.00 for up to 30 minutes.
Maryland WDCO license scope
Maryland DNR Wildlife & Heritage Service WDCO license no. 58150 — Michael W. Deem, d/b/a Maryland Wilderness Company. Authorized license species: Birds, mammals (including bats), reptiles, and amphibians.
MHIC / workmanship boundary: Maryland Wilderness Company is MHIC exempt. Only merchantability is guaranteed for seven days. If you want improvement work, improvement on WDCO work, or guaranteed craftsmanship, hire a licensed contractor.
Public WDCO price reference
Current assessment and service rate card.
- Paid WDCO phone/email assessment
- $50.00 for pre-call review plus up to 30 minutes by phone/email.
- Authorized impromptu WDCO assessment call
- $150.00 for up to 30 minutes during business hours. No free unscheduled property-specific assessment calls.
- After-hours / emergency impromptu call
- $300.00 for up to 30 minutes. This is a double-rate billing tier, not a promise of emergency response availability.
- Business hours
- Monday-Friday, 10 AM-10 PM Eastern.
- Separate authorized onsite service
- $300.00 first billable hour and $300.00 per additional billable hour.
- Permits
- $15.00 each plus the permit cost, when applicable.
- PPE
- $45.00 per instance, when applicable.
- Decontamination / shop materials
- $25.00, when applicable.
- Utilities not available onsite
- Cost plus 20%, when applicable.
- Other separate items
- Incidental supplies/materials, traps, merchandise such as bat boxes, taxes, and other agreed add-ons are separate when applicable.
- License scope
- Maryland DNR Wildlife & Heritage Service WDCO license no. 58150 — Michael W. Deem — d/b/a Maryland Wilderness Company. Authorized license species: Birds, mammals (including bats), reptiles, and amphibians.
After-hours / emergency billing
Double-rate impromptu calls are price-tagged before the call path.
Business hours are Monday-Friday, 10 AM-10 PM Eastern. An authorized impromptu call outside that window, or an emergency-rated impromptu call, is $300.00 for up to 30 minutes.
MHIC and workmanship notice
WDCO pricing is not a home-improvement craftsmanship promise.
Maryland Wilderness Company is MHIC exempt. Only merchantability is guaranteed for seven days. If you want improvement work, improvement on WDCO work, or guaranteed craftsmanship, hire a licensed contractor.
DNR or third-party referral
The first brief phone screen is only for routing; property-specific guidance is paid.
If a DNR listing, agency, restaurant, search result, landlord, tenant, or other third party gave you the WDCO number, the call may be screened for immediate danger, bite/scratch/saliva exposure, active animal location, commercial food-service setting, need for onsite response, and official-source routing. A property-specific impromptu phone assessment is billed at $150.00 for up to 30 minutes during business hours, or $300.00 after hours/emergency.
Policy reference
Refund, cancellation, no-show, and rescheduling boundaries are public.
The paid phone assessment fee covers pre-call review, availability, and professional time. It does not guarantee onsite service, animal capture, removal, reopening, sanitation, code clearance, or a particular outcome.
Scheduling priority
Service calls take priority over scheduled phone assessments.
Calls to service, active onsite jobs, urgent field issues, and business operations take priority over scheduled phone assessments. Maryland Wilderness may reschedule a phone assessment if a service call or active job conflicts. Same-day online assessment scheduling is intentionally blocked; the earliest public online appointment is at least 1 day ahead. If Maryland Wilderness offers a reschedule because service-call priority changes availability, the customer may accept the new appointment time. Declining reschedule or being unavailable for the rescheduled time does not create a refund because all sales are final.
Important billing boundary
Calling the number is not a free assessment path.
The published WDCO phone number may be used for paid client routing and authorized service coordination. A property-specific impromptu assessment call proceeds only after payment or authorization and is billed as the Impromptu WDCO Assessment product at $150.00 for up to 30 minutes during business hours. After-hours or emergency impromptu calls are double rate at $300.00 for the same 30-minute block.
