Planning board hears concept plan for New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife in Goffstown Road area

The Hooksett Planning Board on March 3 heard a concept presentation for the New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife, a proposed wildlife rescue, surgery and rehabilitation facility on a roughly 100-acre tract at 30 Goffstown Road (Map 22, Lot 4). The presenters said the proposal would convert about 21 acres for the center while leaving most of the property wooded.

At the public concept discussion, Helen Dutton, co-founder of the New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife, said the center would focus on four “tenets”: rescue, repair, rehabilitation and education, and that most vehicle traffic would be low and intermittent. “On a day that a surgery is required, there would be a veterinarian, most likely two technicians,” Dutton said. For rehabilitation, volunteers would rotate through shifts; presenters estimated often one volunteer on site for four-hour shifts. Dutton said the center aims to return animals to the wild after…