BOISE, Idaho — Seagulls are a problem at the Ada County Landfill for a number of reasons.

They pose a safety hazard to heavy equipment operators, they carry foreign diseases, and they can wreak havoc on spaces that are not within their natural flyway— such as Idaho.

So who do you call?

Rebecca Weeks is the Education and Outreach manager for the landfill and explains what happened next.

"They're just very messy to work with, but also a big safety issue," said Weeks. "We had so many seagulls landing on the garbage that they would flock up into the windshields of our compactor drivers and our dozer drivers."

At one point, the Ada County landfill was dealing with over four thousand seagulls.

A couple of years ago, the Ada County Commissioners decided to do something about that. Where di

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