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Planning board hears concept for New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife in Goffstown Road area
Summary
Developers described a proposed wildlife-only rescue, repair and rehabilitation center on a roughly 100-acre tract; board members and staff focused questions on driveway sight distance, wetland impacts and the limited traffic the center would generate.
A concept plan for the New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife drew a largely receptive response from the Hooksett Planning Board on March 3 as the project team described a wildlife-only rescue, surgery and rehabilitation facility proposed for 30 Goffstown Road.
The applicant said the project’s goal is to rescue and repair injured and orphaned wildlife, rehabilitate them in pens on-site and educate veterinary students and volunteers. "There are four key tenets of the center. First is rescue, second is repair, third is rehabilitate, and then four is educate," said Helen Dutton, identified in the meeting as a co-founder of the New Hampshire Veterinary Center for Wildlife.
Dutton told the board that rescue traffic would be low: most animals will be retrieved by the rehabilitator, New Hampshire Fish and Game or a good Samaritan and brought to the facility. She said surgical days would involve a veterinarian and one or two…
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