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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – June 25, 2019 <br />MC: Yes. Any type, a lot of birds eat insects so this actually help the insect <br />population. <br /> <br />NP: Would help the game bird by going in – taking down brush – providing dung – <br />so it could revitalize our game birds. <br /> <br />MC: Oh, big time. Like another thing it’s gonna do for the game birds – now with <br />vegetation down from the sheep eating it – it will help the birds find food on <br />the ground – mice, rats – and it’ll actually help them see predators too – <br />cause you know we have a lot of feral cats and mongoose and all the great <br />creatures around – so this will actually open up the fields so the birds can <br />actually see the predators too. <br /> <br />NP: Can you share your photos also with our audience? <br /> <br />MC: This is some pictures of beetles working the dung – sorry got to go back real <br />quick. This is a picture of KMR – National Guard – proud to say we won some <br />awards with this one and I wanted to show you guys a picture of my goats – <br />why I like to show this picture is to let everybody see we have a no kill herd – <br />we take pride in our animals. They live their lives – they work very hard <br />clearing the land so we don’t slaughter them – they get to live long healthy <br />lives if \[unclear\] doesn’t get to them first. And here – we actually have three <br />phases of a job that I did for a fire break and it’s actually with ohia trees and <br />stuff like that around – other native plants – and this one we actually utilize <br />goats and sheep in this project, which this project actually due to vegetation – <br />we actually had to do a lot of strategies – how much numbers of goats to how <br />much numbers of sheep so they’ll finish the project together due to the <br />differences they eat. <br /> <br />NP: So you say the goats are browsers and the sheep are grazers... <br /> <br />MC: Grazers, yes... <br /> <br />NP: So you would take the goats in where you have shrub that needs cleared... <br /> <br /> What kind of shrub – like would they eat Clidemia hirta – Koster’s curse – <br />that’s a tough one. <br /> <br />MC: That’s one of those toxic plants... <br /> <br />MC: They’ll eat a little but they won’t take it out completely. Sad to say – I wish <br />they would eat it a little bit more. <br /> <br />NP: Waiwi? <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />