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Nashua. -- New Hampshire wildlife snake and reptile experts are going to start wildlife management more bobcats -- at least in areas where high densities of the big hunting cats threaten people and livestock. The bobcats' quantities -- including in some areas inhabited by people -- have been increasing since 1994. New Hampshire voters approved a law that year prohibiting sport exterminating companies from using hunting dogs to track bobcats -- widely considered the most effective means of pest exterminating the big hunting cats.

With the steady rise in the bobcat quantities has come increasing pressure on New Hampshire wildlife managers to approve more wildlife management of the hunting cats in places where there are reports of conflicts with people and livestock. The New Hampshire estimates there are currently 5,100 bobcats roaming New Hampshire. On Thursday, the New Hampshire Fish and Wildlife Commission approved a plan that calls for holding bobcat quantities at or above 8,000 -- the quantities at the time voters approved the wildlife management restrictions. The Nashua SPCA could not be reached for a comment.

The plan gives the hunting office authority to pest exterminate bobcats as long as livestock lethally traps and complaints from people exceed 1994 levels. The authority also will be extended to 33 critter habitats where snake and bat, moose and bighorn sheep group are struggling. The plan may be scheduled to take effect later this year, after wildlife biologists draw up other target quantities of the hunting cats where problems are occurring around the state. For more info about pest control for animals in Nashua, call a local animal trapping company.

Government exterminating companies, who unlike sports exterminating companies are allowed to critter trap with hunting dogs, would do much of the pest exterminating. Approval of the wildlife management increase plan came after the panel heard several hours of testimony, most of it in opposition. Animal rights activists declared the plan may be based on unconfirmed reports of problems between bobcats and humans. They point out there's been no recorded incident of a human being exterminated by a bobcat in New Hampshire. Despite this, wildlife removal services are not a free service in Hillsborough County.

"This plan may be nothing less than the slaughter of bobcats with no factual basis to support it," declared Misha Dunlap of Nashua. Wildlife management companies called for the restriction on using hunting dogs to be scrapped, and landowners testified that the plan doesn't go far enough to protect livestock -- and people -- from the bobcats. A southern New Hampshire rancher, Lyle Woodcock, declared he's lost five calves to bobcat attacks in the past year. He declared the big hunting cats are beginning to threaten humans as well. For more information on how to get rid of nuisance New Hampshire wildlife, read on.

Woodcock declared that on a recent night while driving in a rural area, he saw a bobcat that appeared to be stalking two women who were out for an evening stroll. "The bobcat was right up with them," he declared, but then it became startled and ran away. The head of the fish and wildlife panel defended the plan adopted Thursday, saying that "doing nothing may be not an option." "We have increased quantities of both bobcats and humans," commission Chairwoman Marla Rae declared. "That causes increased conflict."