2019 09-10 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 10, 2019 herbicide drip – cause I think that’s the biggest thing in herbicide use especially in agricultural industry and stuff so if’ you’re up there on the mountain and it’s, you know, most farms it’s ten miles an hour or greater – the machine’s automatically deactivate and only water start spraying out and so forth – I was wondering if any of those type of things – are you guys doing mechanical? Hand spraying? So some of the techniques, I think more, I mean, if there’s more general information – I would be interested to know how you guys are gonna be doing these kind of things – and if you monitor for that – because herbicide drift is the bad one cause of what’s gonna happen is you’re gonna get lot overspray into other areas and so forth and it seems to be a lot more breezy up in the mountains too and then also mowing – are you guys gonna be widening the road and is any permits or impact study need to be done when you guys are doing this type of work – as a pretty sensitive area right now and then, of course, what are the target species that you are actually gonna try to treat – I would like to know that and then then the type of mowing equipment – and I think you answered what percent will be mowed versus herbicide – I think that’s a good number to know and as far as hunting – you can can’t hunt along the roadways – I mean it’s nice when you can see birds, I guess, along the roadway, but I think it’s 50 yards from a roadway, yeah, so, I mean, even though the grass is nice along the roadway – you can’t hunt there anyway and then they go into the thicker grass so for me it doesn’t really make much a difference other than seeing wildlife is nice but I don’t think it really benefits hunting in that sense, unless the birds really hang out and feed along those areas – so just some of those questions, I mean, if you guys can answer that then I’ll talk a little bit about what I wanted to talk about – about soil biology. NP: Did one of your want to answer those questions for Tony? KS: I thought we were done. NP: Sorry... KS: Kanalu Sproat, DLNR, DOFAW, we use a broad targeting herbicide because it gets everything and we’re treating it for firebreaks so we want little or no vegetation so that there’s no fuel to carry a fire – so that’s why we’re using the broad spectrum herbicides, um, as far as, yeah, if it’s – I don’t know – do we say less than 10 miles an hour – I know we do – if it’s too windy we don’t spray at all, um, we use backpack sprayers – we have a spray rig attached to the back of the truck with a tank and, but, yeah, if it’s too windy so – like a lot of times we do spare roads in Puuanahulu and we pretty much can only spray in them morning because by lunch it’s blowing and it’s a one – you know, one trip out there but I don’t know if it’s specifically ten miles an hour or not but it’s, well, that’s gonna go too far – so we don’t spray, um, what else did you have on there – that was a lot of questions. 15