2019 05-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 14, 2019 page – you could look at both pages and it would tell you what had changed – it didn’t work – we got to about page 3 and it blew up because the plan was just all shuffled. Couldn’t follow and there was no pagination on any of the new stuff. But it appeared that the current DLNR staff opinions significantly differed from the DLNR members that participated in the original draft and as I mentioned as presented the revised version of the plan was – we just couldn’t do anything with it. It appeared that there were a number of PC insertions that provided no discernable benefit to the management of the game resource – there was stuff in there that I have no idea why it was stuck in a game management plan. In March of 2018 there was a State GMAC meeting held in Hilo – the game management plan was one of the items on the agenda – the current DOFAW Administrator said that DOFAW really – that DLNR didn’t really need a plan – it had a hunting program and a couple of us kinda jumped on him for that but it makes no sense – a hunting program is part of management plan – it isn’t a management plan. So the GMAC chair recommended a minimum of four DLNR and Plan participant follow-up meetings – that was what came out of the GMAC meeting. In May of 2018 – Tom Lodge and I were the only ones that did have work commitments during it for a day meeting – we met with DLNR – we were told there would be no management plan for mammals and that the game bird plan would be contracted to an outside source. It wasn’t what we hoped to hear and the meeting ended abruptly with no follow-up. That gets us here. NP: Thank you, Richard. So now we have representatives here to answer questions... BKK: I’m sorry – is there anybody that wants to ask any questions to Mr. Hoeflinger before we move on? GH: Mr. Hoeflinger – can you briefly just summarize some of the nine recommendations that was originally made? RH: Well, you caught me unawares. I’m gonna have to look it up: 1) Establish an effective game management program 2) Facilitate cooperative management 3) Quantitatively analyze game animal populations 4) Characterize available game habitat 5) Remove legislative impediments 6) Revise hunting rules 7) Reorganize the hunter education program 8) Develop standard operating procedures 9) Publish a hunting newsletter – number 9 did get done. There is now a newsletter on the web. I don’t think anything else happened. 10