2019 09-10 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 10, 2019 TS: One percent is mowed versus herbicide – \[unclear\] 90 or 95% or something like that? KS: It’s what we’re shooting for... TS: And then the target species you said basically whatever is there so it doesn’t... KS: We don’t want vegetation or at least we don’t want high vegetation cause we’re trying to stop a fire from moving through... TS: And then widening the road in any way or is that any impact or anything – you guys have... Is that something... KS: We’re not widening the road... TS: Any fire breaks when they do that, I mean, you just go in there and you doze – what if there’s cultural sites and things like that, I mean, the grasses and brush is tall. I’ve often wondered that so – I mean not putting it on you guys because of this particular thing you guys are doing but just in general, I mean... KS: Yeah, we’re not doing any machines to push and widen the road – so we’re just using the mower and attachment to take the vegetation down and you know, the mulching – but we’re not widening any roads or anything like that. And then you question about hunting along the road – that’s from a public highway or road – so the roads within the hunting area – you can hunt right off of the road. KS: But that’s from, a public highway or a county road or something like that – you cannot hunt within \[unclear\] feet of that. ?: So, if you say, and we get one DLNR officer come by and... KS: This is recorded? You know what – let me sit down and go look at the road and \[unclear\] I’ll come back and correct myself. ?: So if I was a hunter and if anybody else \[unclear\] you know – get Steve over there and the DLNR guy going come and he going say, eh, you cannot do that over there... SH: Steve Hurt with Big Island Bird Hunters. OK. The hunting from a road I helped Ron Bachman and Joey Mello when this came up originally – it came out where they wanted the buffer on all roads. No. Cause any fire break would fall under that category. The word “paved” was inserted and that’s the law – that 16