2019-04-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – April 15, 2019 themselves from liability – so it’s something that hunters would have to work with you and Kamehameha Schools... GC: Right. TN: Once again, because it may be state lease land – do you know what the verbiage is on your lease regarding hunting? GC: We have different leases – we have leases with Kamehameha Schools and we have – at the moment – with Parker Ranch and no, I don’t have that with me – no – but it does... TN: But you do have with state – state lease land? GC: No, we don’t. TN: You don’t? It’s just Kamehameha Schools and Parker Ranch... ....so you would have to look at the lease agreement that you have and what it would say about hunting... GC: Correct. And as I said, ours is a single purpose lease – which says we are allowed to plant trees and have no other rights to that – all other rights revert to the landowner. So that would have to be worked through with both the landowner and the hunting club and it needs to be a club – in our experience it has to be a club because Kamehmeha Schools did require insurance of quite a significant amount so that somewhat prohibited individual hunters on the land. NP: I thought that was interesting. So how large are your trees – the babies that you plant to replace, um, they’re already started and are they – how large are they when you replant? GC: It’s just to give you some perspective – when we did the initial planting that all came through – I was responsible for that and we planted about 10 million keiki to get the trees done – the seed I have in my possession the improved seed that we will do the next crop with – it’s – it’ll take about 8 to 10 weeks. NP: Well, my question is actually – so you said that you encourage wild mammal – no problem....because they don’t damage the keiki. GC: Correct. NP: Well, that’s very interesting. So you don’t need to fence them. How amazing. Will you please tell the DLNR? 18