2019 05-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – May 14, 2019 thing like that. Then you get together once a month – you selves is hunters – and meet to get a pavilion at the park – someplace – and bring out the map and show and discuss and get involved more – I think you got to get involved with the hunters a little bit more direct and let them be part of the planning and everything and no make the bureaucratic style that you just tell ‘em, you just tell ‘em, you just tell ‘em. No, they got to listen to them – they should tell you folks the ideas and how the things should be run – so anyway – I give you kokua – just call. TN: Mahalo, Pali for being here. Anybody else have questions? NP: Thank you, Palikapu. History of the Game Management Plan – Richard Hoeflinger BKK: The Chair recognizes Nani to introduce Mr. Richard Hoeflinger. NP: Before I introduce Richard – I’d like to give a little bit of background of tonight’s discussion on game management. So this last month I wrote emails to Bob Masuda – Deputy Chair of the DLNR and trying to persuade or request work be continued on a game management plan that’s been in process for over ten years and so, actually, I did get some response and Bob Masuda organized a meeting with Dave Smith – DOFAW Administrator – and Jim Cogswell, Wildlife Program Manager, and Shaya Honarvar, the DOFAW Game Program Coordinator and Shaya called me and she said that they’ve agreed to push a game management plan forward, which is good news and she said that they agreed to do it in a timely fashion – and then they assigned Kamal Sproat and Ian Cole to be our assistants and we’re so lucky to have Steve Bergfield here tonight too – thank you so much you guys for coming – so Richard Hoeflinger is gonna give us – as no one else can – the history of the efforts made for a game management plan – he’s sort of like the father of it – the beginning – the working group person – so thank you so much Richard for coming. RH: You’re welcome. NP: So as Richard’s talking – think about the questions you might have about a game management plan cause we’ve got the guys here to answer for us. Thank you. RH: What I’m going to do this evening is tell you a story about a job that started almost 12 years ago and I’ll lead you through what I remember transpired in that time. This is a game management plan – and I’ll tell you how it this – where it is now. It’s 175 pages – it has 70 illustrations, 90 references and 9 8