Mow, till or burn habitat to reduce overhead or dense
vegetation.
Tree
guard Description:Plastic wraps can prevent rodents from gnawing
thin bark on young trees and shrubs during winter and early spring.
Hardware cloth Description:This useful material, also called hail screen, comes in mesh sizes down to 1/4-inch which are useful to exclude mice from young trees or shrubs. Photo Credits:Dallas Virchow
Repellents
None that are effective enough
Shooting
Not applicable
Trapping
Low numbers or densities of voles can be trapped using "mouse
traps" baited with peanut butter and oatmeal mixture.
Mouse
and Rat snap traps Description:Voles can be captured best in the larger traps.
"Museum special" sized traps are useful. Photo Credits:Dallas Virchow
Place traps in runways or along foundations: box traps or
multiple capture traps for mice, glue swabbed inside 1 or 1 1/2 in.
X one foot black plastic pipeVole
trap set perpendicular to runway Photo Credits:U of Nebraska
Multiple-catch
mouse traps can also be effective in controlling voles.
Toxicants
Zinc
phosphide-treated baits, if legal, can be hand applied directly into
vole runways, preferably before spring green up.