2019 07-30 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawai’i Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 30, 2019 WJC: I haven’t seen it. That’s what he told me last week when I talked to him about when I was asking him about the gate. So, yeah, that is actually should be a horse – able to go up with a horse and it’s overgrown – whenever there’s wind trees fall down and everything. So it’s not the best maintained trail and I think they’re trying to get it back open – that was what my understanding was, which is good. Ah... Let’s see. Concern from these guys on our side, of course, Mauna Kea – the closure of the hunting there. ?: Can we ask questions about Ookala? WJC: Yes, go ahead... ?: Last month in June – at a Pig Hunters of Hawaii meeting and we had a public member come in from out that side and he was complaining about the gate and, ah, pretty much touched up with what you said – so I made a call with Stanley Mendes – he’s not here tonight and he got back to me like a week later as to that concerns and then he talked to DLNR and they told him that the gate as gonna be open from now on. But I mean I know you just had your meeting with them this week but... WJC: Up until, up until last week when I talked to Jackson – the last that I heard – but that was, you know, about a month already that I didn’t talk to him – was that the gate was gonna be closed but it wasn’t gonna be locked... ....and it wasn’t – so I don’t know when they started actually locking it at, you know, at night, um, but supposedly that that is when they’re – it’s supposed to be an hour before and an hour after according to Jackson – I did hear from somebody this week was saying, oh, that it wasn’t but, you know, I don’t really jump into a lot of that... ?: Yeah, yeah... And that was the other thing... WJC: Because after dark... ?: ....that I touched with Stanley about was that signage postings so... WJC: They’re supposed to be a sign with the phone number... ?: ....the person that brought it up to me was – said that there’s no way to contact anybody if they’re locked in and according to him already had – this is like maybe couple months old already, you know, from June, so before June – like in May or something and had couple people that was already locked in and they couldn’t contact nobody so I brought up to Stanley if they could bring up some signage and have you seen a signage up? 13