2019 06-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – June 25, 2019 Teresa Nakama moved for approval of the May 14, 2019 financial report as submitted. Seconded by Nani Pogline and carried unanimously by voice vote. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC ON AGENDA ITEMS: BKK: At this time I welcome anybody from the public to come up and speak – if you do – you can come up to these two chairs, press the red button and you’re more than welcome to say anything you want – also throughout the presentations and agenda items you’re more than welcome to come up and speak. All right – we’re gonna move on to Mr. Mark – I’m actually gonna recognize Teresa to introduce Mark. PRESENTATION: a. Mark Crivello – Grazing Management TN: Good evening everybody. For our guest speaker this evening we have Mark Crivello to do his presentation on his ecological goats and sheep. Thank you, Mark, for being here. MC: Thank you everybody for having me here tonight to talk a little about the goats and sheep and how they do their grazing differently and have a great impact on the environment. First of all my name is Mark Crivello with 3C Goat Grazing formerly known as Aina Pono Livestock and Land Maintenance. As I mentioned, I’m here tonight to talk about my goats and sheep and their eating habits which – goats and sheep do have different eating habit – sheep are grazers – goats are browsers. So they eat in different ways like different vegetations – so you can utilize them in different ways. So with saying that I would like to mention some of the benefits of the animals which is both of them are great for fire breaks – clearing lands in a natural way to help better our soils and with clearing the lands out this will actually improve habitats for other animals and let other animals and species thrive off of what they should be hunting for and stuff like that. MC: I would like to mention that we are grass farmers and conservationists – we’re not just livestock producers. When we go into clearing lands we like to do the best we can – environmentally safe, environmentally friendly, and help preserve our native forests. By saying that – the animals will actually help with invasive plants and species to knock it down so our native plants can thrive. They can get the right sunlight and grow, I guess, grow. Sorry, I’m a little nervous here. So, yeah, as I said, at our company we try out hardest of being the best conservationists that we can. To work this – to do a lot of our work we actually do intensive grazing with our goats. Intensive grazing is over 2