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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – April 15, 2019 <br />especially on the Hamakua side – the Kona side would take longer cause it’s <br />dry but on the wet side they rot away within a few years. <br /> <br />TN: The saplings that you replant, are they about 12 feet high or are they... <br /> <br />GC: About 12 inches. <br /> <br />TN: Twelve inches high... <br /> <br />GC: Quite small – they’ll have root... <br /> <br />TN: And so the ungulates – the pigs – whatever animals may be in the area – they <br />don’t harm your saplings? <br /> <br />GC: The cattle – we’ve never had a problem with pigs, um, cattle we would like to <br />keep them out for the first year – that’s what we said with Parker Ranch. The <br />trees – if we do our job properly – then they’re growing at about a foot a <br />month – so within six months they’re my head height and at the end the year <br />they’re twelve foot high and... <br /> <br />TN: And then you would allow cattle to come in... <br /> <br />GC: And then you can have cattle in... <br /> <br />TN: And then they keep the grass down…That’s a great ecosystem of working for <br />the animals and plants. <br /> <br />GC: Right…Where I’m from – Zulu Land, South Africa – we let, you know, we <br />were approached after plowing a field to plant eucalyptus by local farmers <br />who wanted to farm peanuts and that seemed like a good solution because <br />peanuts are nitrogen fixing, they keep the weeds down and they were getting <br />about a ton per hectare so about half a ton an acre of peanuts and I always <br />wanted to do that here but we’ve never quite managed to have the – find a <br />farmer who – had a peanut farm – to be honest. It would be a nice idea if you <br />know anybody. <br /> <br />GD: In terms of carbon off-set from the plant and the forest is it a completely net <br />balanced type system? <br /> <br />GC: You know, we, um, we had consultants from Australia recently and what they <br />found is ultimately it is – it’s just a matter of time – because we would be <br />harvesting – the trees we would harvest now on Hamakua are quite big – that <br />we, you know, we planted them in the late 1990s so they’re twenty years old, <br />um, and some of them are quite large to twenty some inches big and they’re <br />holding a lot of carbon. With the sapling we’ll put in are going to be small but <br />as they grow they will compensate and when we reach a sustainable plateau <br />22 <br /> <br /> <br />