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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – September 10, 2019 <br />TN: What about the pilot program for the gathering of goats and the uses of them <br />for Public Works? <br /> <br />MC: What is that again, Teresa? <br /> <br />TN: Do you have a pilot program in the works for the gathering of the goats in <br />using them for the Public Works Department? <br /> <br />MC: No, no, I do not. <br /> <br />TN: Do you plan to get in touch with the Public Works Department and do a <br />proposal for them? <br /> <br />MC: Yes. I would love to and I will be in contact with them. <br /> <br />NP: Thank you. <br /> <br />MC: Thank you so much. <br /> <br />NP: While I was talking to Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign officers and they mentioned <br />3C Goat Grazing and Parks and Rec – and so his fame is growing! Yeah, OK, <br />if there aren’t any other questions – thank you so much. <br /> <br />MC: Just to finish off everything – just a quick one – I want to thank Steve for <br />meeting up with me and having the conversation about utilizing goats and <br />sheep. I’m hoping that I can prove to everybody that this is a great way to <br />reduce fire loads and reduce herbicides. So 3C Goat Grazing will try our best <br />to prove that we can do it – cause there’s so much different vegetations <br />around this Island – we are actually going to be doing a little bit more studying <br />and researching on some of the vegetations the animals don’t eat – I’m gonna <br />try spruce it up a little so it becomes candy and they want to eat it. And these <br />vegetations I’m talking about is actually some of our biggest fire producers <br />that we have – so I’m gonna try see how I can sweeten it up a little for the <br />animals – I love doing this research – it’s fun. <br /> <br />NP: Yeah. Hands on knowledge. <br /> <br />MC: It’s a lot of trial and errors cause like I mentioned before I did run into <br />vegetations that are toxic to the animals – they might not be toxic all year <br />round but during the spring – like that – they actually let off toxins so they can <br />keep on producing – so it’s all this kind of stuff we have to watch out for and <br />it’s really, really – you get down to the scientific terms with some of this stuff <br />that happens – it’s amazing. <br /> <br />NP: But generally well-managed goats and sheep can be very beneficial to <br />ecosystems, environment and native species. <br />23 <br /> <br /> <br />