2019 09-10 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

Home

Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 10, 2019 and understand the fact that if you look at the number of palila they’re still going down even though we’ve been doing this for all these decades – we recognize that as well. KU: And what would be the solution – in your opinion? SB: I don’t know – I have people tell me that the recovery of the bird is gonna take time because there’s a time lag between it – I don’t know. JO: This is James. Kanalu you said we couldn’t do a test plot, for instance, up there – because anytime federal monies are involved that’s a restricted to have them there – does that mean that it could be done with State monies? KS: Honestly, I don’t know. SB: We haven’t gotten to that point yet – that’s a discussion I got to have with more people to see if that’s a possibility or not. JO: OK. Thank you. TN: This is Teresa in Kona. Could you describe exactly what do you mean by extensive re-growth of the forest – what has come back that wasn’t’ there in abundance before – particularly the shrubs, the trees... SB: There’s a lot of shrubs, there’s a lot more mamane, um, there’s a lot more ohelo than I ever saw before – geraniums, um, we’ve got silver swords – there’s just a lot of vegetation that I didn’t notice before. TN: So what kind of shrubs have you seen come back? SB: Ohelo, geraniums, the pukiawe aren’t round anymore... TN: Have you folks started a replanting project? SB: We did an extensive reforestation when I first started and then with the reductions in the number of animals the forest has been recovering on its own – but we’re still doing mamane restoration with Kanalu’s program. TN: Is there other trees other than mamane being planted? KS: They do some naio and they do some koa and probably some aalii as well, um, yes. There’s other plants as well... TN: Have you done iliahi and uhi uhi and kawila and, um, maua, I mean those... 12