Pest control in Anchorage follows the furnace. Mice use the crawl, the rim, and the eave when the dark months make those gaps the warmest route in. Spruce and birch planted against the wall give them cover. The short bright season is when wasps and ants show up and when you can still see the holes. A trap alone will not close an inlet-wind soffit that popped open.
Droppings on the crawl plastic, a nest beside the furnace, and a rub mark at the garage door are enough to name the problem. A house left dark while people are away can fill with nests you meet at startup. A house lived in all winter sees a slower invasion. Say which life the building has. Do not accept a visit that never names the animal.
If rodents are living in the mechanical room, cleanup is part of the work, not an extra. The boiler or furnace should not be their closet. Keep bird seed and cardboard off the floor down there. A firewood stack of birch against the siding is a bridge, and Anchorage has plenty of those stacks. Wind off the inlet opens the soffit, then the mice use what the wind started.
Close the holes while you can still kneel at the rim and see them. After the dark locks in, the crawl is a worse place to work and a better place for them. Say whether this is the first season or a repeat. One mouse and a settled population are different scopes. If the roof is open in the bright weeks, close the entries before new metal covers them.
Say mice or wasps or whatever you saw, and the part of Anchorage. Mention the crawl or the furnace room. Say if the house was sitting dark. A photo of the droppings beats a guess. Name the room if the nest is beside the heat. Do not give them the whole winter to furnish the insulation. Call the number on this page.