2019 06-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – June 25, 2019 populating the land to the goats will actually eat everything in sight – that way they can be picky – they can eat their SPAM, they can eat their steak. Everything’s all together. That’s the intensive part – the intensive grazing. With the conservation part – we like to open it up little bit more, little bit less numbers and like to use our arsenal sheep for that. Just like I mentioned earlier, the sheep are grazers. They like to eat grass. They don’t want to touch plants, trees – they’re grass grazers. And saying that, if you want your numbers because what we actually do before we going to any pieces of property we’ll take a little jig that we have, cut the grass, figure out how much pounds of dry matter we have – so we know how much pounds of animals to put inside there. It’s a lot of science that goes into this – it’s not just grazing – it’s a lof of science. With this jig like that – how I just mentioned – we can calculate how long the animals are gonna take to clear an area and with that being said, you can do it in a conservationist way to help protect the plants, cause you’re working on the numbers of animals, you’re not over grazing – you’re not under grazing. You’re working it together. The next thing that is very important about the animals besides just the grazing is the insects that they bring around. The insects are actually food for birds, bats, and other species out there. Everything is working in a tight ecosystem and we want to keep it in balance. By taking away too much of one thing – you can create an off-balance, I guess you could put it – which will have devastating results in the future. So, like I keep on mentioning – this is a big science project and it takes a lot of heads to actually get together to keep everything intact correctly and furthermore a good part about the animals is – by utilizing animals you will cut your herbicide use dramatically. I can’t give you the exact percentage because there are vegetations out there that the animals won’t eat due to being toxic. So there, you know, not like I’m saying you can totally wipe out herbicide use or anything like that – got to be honest on that – so by cutting out the herbicide use – that will actually help keep ourselves better, because you guys all know by using herbicides it doesn’t only kill the grass or the plant, it actually kills the soil and all the bacterias in the soil also. We want to stop from doing that cause by doing that too – you’re actually loosening up your soils and it can cause erosions. It’s amazing how just by grazing animals how much science goes behind this to make this work out perfectly. We want to do our best to keep the ecosystem in a balance. Animals, insects, native plants, native species, native birds and with utilizing the goats and sheep – that’ll be a big help in keeping everything in balance and last but not least our company invested in a helicopter to do aerial movements on animals. As much as possible, we do not want to leave a footprint on the ground. By the air we’re eliminating traffic on the ground – where we can actually move our animals and we can also take in equipment that we need – into native places where you don’t want to drive any vehicles inside. So I guess we can say our company’s biggest goal at 3-C is to help the environment, to keep it balanced and eco friendly as best as we can. Thank you guys so much for having me. Does anybody have any questions? 3