2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 GM: DLNR land most of ‘em is DHHL – Hawaiian Homelands – most of them in the Conservation part of it needs to be watched very carefully, right now, it’s not being watched. We’ve got illegal water diversions that is very – look what happened – we get staff on Bayfront now because there’s not enough water in our rivers from this illegal diversions, you know, there’s a lot of issues that DLNR \[unclear\] is making decisions from behind their seats and they’re not coming here and they’re not including corps engineers to come and do environmental assessments. That is the most important thing, you know, so if we can try for 2020 the people that’s running – we all support them in the honua and take that kuleana away from central Oahu and put it right here on the Islands where our voices of our hunters really going be heard. NP: Right – where the bosses are coming from Oahu centric mentality and has nothing to do with us. GM: I mean, they really don’t connect with the land, they really don’t care. For me to see what is really depleting – the resources is being depleting too at the same time, you know, the opae all those stuffs is important. For GMAC to be able to take that away – that’s our constitutional right. They’re raping us of our constitutional right – to be violated everyday because of their decisions over in central Oahu but if possible we should all get on the same page and try to take that home rule and bring it back and let you folks be a big part of making decisions for our Island. NP: I appreciate, any support we can get of working together. Thank you so much. Any other questions for Ryan? Oh, right, right, we’re gonna keep our song and dance that we want game management not a hunting program – we want our resources preserved for the future – to be sure. TN: Ryan what is your contact number? RK: It’s just my whole name – one word – Ryankohatsu@gmail.com NP: If there’s no more questions – all right, thank you so much, Ryan. We really appreciate it. Um, also, ah, I was gonna talk a little later about our bills a little more. So now we have our Jim O’Keefe – he’s gonna do a presentation on the proposed Puuanahulu Shooting Range. JO: Thank you and good evening everybody. This is Jim O’Keefe – District 3 representative. I also wear a second hat – I am a board member and officer of On Target Inc. and the presentation I’m giving tonight about the shooting range comes from our work at On Target Inc. so... But because it’s the best one we have out there I figured I’d start with that. Now, I have a number of slides here. I will attempt not to do death by PowerPoint – but it’s a fairly comprehensive layout here so if we can roll through these and if you can hold 15