2019 05-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 14, 2019 TN: What would you call that when we – if each of us in the nine district did such a event and we called out onto the hunters – does everybody here feel that would... PD: They’re supposed to do that. You get your hunters in your district together – that’s who you represent sitting there – put up notices – get together, man, never worked the first one do another one. Be serious about what you want and you only want a head count – you just want an animal count and everybody can do that. What they see – what they record and it’s all for the purpose of looking for the future for their own kids as hunters. So hunters are educators too. TN: How does that fit in with Puna Wao Kele Forest – that you have been an instrument...? PD: That forest got taken up by Tutu Pele so there’s not much – there’s just kukupas left in the forest – no more game too much in there but they’re still hunting in Wao Kele and that was a hunting right for native Hawaiians – people got to understand that there’s a State Constitution that separates a Hawaiian for the general public. Go read it so you understand that there’s laws that you gotta comply with and there’s laws that you gotta uphold. Do your homework. Read where the Hawaiian fits in your environment and you’ll understand that he came with the environment – he should be fitting everywhere in the environment. TN: What was your case in Puna Wao Kele Forest? PD: It was on hunting – hunting and gathering rights – that the State gave it to the private person – which his Campbell Estate – we challenged Campbell Estate because people got arrested hunting-gathering and we won the law suit – that the State did not have a right to swap our rights away to a private landowner – so you see – when we beat one private landowner – the State, the County, the Feds all have to yield because we rights in them – not private – they us, so, if we beat somebody private the rest should be very well understood that our rights come with them too. Just did a lot of homework, man, it did a lot of challenges – I’m not here to blow smoke, man, that’s just how it is. And if you’re gonna drag ass and go try fight lawyers or wait for the State, wait for all the people – we in the same situation – more population coming – stuff disappearing – subdivisions growing – resources depleting – pollution taking over – commercialization – come on – throw up the fence already and this game commission gotta throw up fences to protect this Island and no scared – the State got to deal with you – and you got your own rules and laws – you got your own Corporate Counsel – he’s supposed to be standing up for this County – no get scared of the State – they’re the problem – they only came in ’59 like I said – this stuff was here way before them and our responsibility 5