ABOUT US

U S Pest Control Company is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and serves the counties of Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, Taos, and parts of  San Miguel, Mora, and  Colfax counties (see service area map).  Our goal is to provide high quality service at affordable prices.  Whenever possible we prefer treatments which do not use chemicals, depending instead on mechanical and cultural methods of treatment.

U S Pest Control Company is owned by Joe Sandoval a native of Santa Fe.  Joe began his career in pest control while attending high school, first working as an exterminator helper in the summer of 1974 with National Pest Control Co.  In 1975 he was accepted into the Industrial Cooperative Training program at Santa Fe Vocational Technical School, where he studied Extermination / Pest Control.  Joe obtained his first Operators / Technician license in the fall of 1975.  In 1977 upon graduation from Santa Fe High School Joe received a Certificate in Extermination.

After serving as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, Joe returned to Santa Fe and continued working for National Pest Control Co. as a Manager / Pest Control Technician. 

In 1981 Joe attended New Mexico State University (NMSU) studying Entomology / Plant Pathology and Agricultural Biology for two years.  While attending NMSU Joe worked for Livestock Entomology.  His duties included rearing arthropods such as:  hornflies (Haematobia irritans), stableflies (Stomoxyn calcitians), houseflies (Musca domestica), scabies mites (Psoroptes ovis), and other insects and arthropod species as required.  Joe took part in studies of the economic effects of insects and arthropods on animals:  Applying infestations, chemical treatments, and collecting data of the effects of infestations, and treatments.

From 2001 to 2015 Joe was the General Manager of Coates Tree Service Inc.  As part of his duties he oversaw the Plant Healthcare department which specializes in the diseases and insects that effect trees.  During the early 2000's he lead the company through the piñon ips bark beetle (Ips confusus) infestation which decimated large stands of piñon pine (Pinus edulis) trees in Santa Fe County.  Joe is proud of his actions in limiting the use of pesticides during this period, when property owners wanted forests of piñons sprayed.  In an effort to limit the amount of pesticides applied to the environment Joe would educate property owners on the biology, and ecology, of the Bark Beetle, urging them to only treat key landscape trees when treatment was necessary.

Today, Joe continues this philosophy urging customers of U S Pest Control to use an integrated pest management approach, that uses chemicals only as a last resort.  When chemicals are necessary only chemicals with the least toxicity to people, pets and the environment are used,  In addition, when chemicals are used they are only applied to limited areas, and at the lowest rates possible to achieve the desired results.   At U S Pest Control the safety of people, non target animals, and the environment are our top priority.