2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 TN: Right.The other question I have is when you did your sound studies – what were the air currents like in that vicinity cause I know Waikoloa to be very windy at times and I know – here in Kona the air currents 7:00 in the morning and 7:00 at night switches direction from ocean to mountain and mountain to ocean. JO: Right. TN: What are the air currents like there and when is the switch of the air current happening in the area and did you folks test that? JO: Yes. The sound tests – the last sound tests the 2015... TN: Not the sound test... JO: Well, let me explain... TN: The air currents... JO: The evaluation included the direction of the wind, the recordings were done at the various complexes, the wind speed, the provocation of sound levels and that was all – you saw the sound provocation map – and there were... TN: What time during the day... JO: ....a number of those that looked at it with winds at various directions, in other words, from the NE, the trades, from the ocean, you know... There were four different directions. TN: Right. But what time during the day was that. JO: No, that’s not how that was done. We didn’t wait for four different changes of wind to do the test – we know what the sound levels are at the source of the gun fire and we know what the sound provocations is with winds in various directions and how that would travel throughout there, um... TN: I guess I’m asking what time of the day was the test done – was it morning, noon, afternoon, evening? RH: It doesn’t matter. You need to understand how sound tests are run. We know what sound we’re gonna create. We use a mathematical to propagate that sound over the landscape which takes into account all the vegetation, the hills, the valleys or whatever – that’s all in the mathematics. 24