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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – September 10, 2019 <br />?: You can see in this one picture – you can see it’s clearly all grass and then <br />you can see like one rock out lava cropping that’s, you know, pretty obvious, <br />you know, you guys cannot do ‘em all, so how much of the area will you guys <br />actually be Rounduping or, well... <br /> <br />SB: Like I said our hope is that we can do 95% of it by mowing because we’re <br />accomplishing fuels reductions but we’re also providing habitat for the game <br />birds also. <br /> <br />?: Right. <br /> <br />?: So with that habitat with the game birds – I’m not a game bird hunter but as <br />long as I’ve been on this committee we’ve had – and you guys have been <br />here too – we have quite a few bird hunters that came in and they were <br />complaining that the only best place is near by the road but what about out in <br />the fields where the dogs go out and run and the grass is so thick and you <br />guys got any plans for that or no just let the grass grow wild... <br /> <br />KS: We do some mowing, um... <br /> <br />?: But only by the roads... <br /> <br />KS: We do some out into the field – just the terrain is pretty rough to be going <br />galavanting all over the place with a machine to mow and we will be doing a <br />little bit more in the next couple of months before bird season but it’s like <br />trying to empty the ocean... <br /> <br />NP: I’m sure of it. <br /> <br />?: It’s kinda like right on you guys doing more – trying to increase the habitat <br />along the roadside but we get guys that coming in here and complaining that <br />that’s all they get. And it’s just like us hunting in the forest – we get all the <br />fences and eradication came in and you know, me, personally, I can see the <br />difference in the game that I \[unclear\] – the resources \[unclear\] be getting <br />smaller and skinnier and I seen this the last couple of years versus before the <br />fence came up and had nice healthy game – and now it’s like going down <br />and, you know, right where the fences are. And I personally see that for <br />myself. So as far as with the game bird guys is like right on you guys, I <br />support the resources next to the road but what about the guys that actually <br />like drift off the road and tae their hunt more into the grasslands and stuff that <br />is too thick for them that, you know, that’s what they’re saying. <br /> <br />SB: We do some mowing out into that grassland stuff but the amount is kinda <br />negligible. <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br /> <br />