2019-10-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 29, 2019 MM: We hope so – we didn’t see any funding in the bill. NP: Well, we’re not gonna lie. Our main interest is goats and sheep. So we really appreciate that the County’s willing to have pilot projects and to experiment with goats and sheep because we believe that if they’re properly managed that’s our whole point – if they’re properly managed they can be very beneficial to endangered native species and the whole works – friendly eco- systems, right, right, um, so also we’re really wanting to get behind you – if there’s any way we can help as a Commission, um, with promoting the goat and sheep for land management we’d like to work with on that and we’re hoping to make an example to the state – that’s what we’re really hoping – I’m hoping – that the County will be a great example of a success story using goats and sheep for land management and I had a question – so Mark Crivello had brought this up to me that what are the possibilities of capturing and relocating goats, I guess, particularly sheep probably maybe from troublesome areas where they’re troublesome in Kona mostly and putting them where they might be better suited and could actually – the wild goats and sheep could just be managed in certain way where they could be used for land management. MM: That’s a little bit outside my lane. NP: That’s getting ahead – that’s jumping ahead.\] MM: The zoo does fall under Parks & Recreation but, you know, catching goats and relocating we don’t have that ability right now. NP: Mark can do it for you. Anyway, right. Well thank you so much Maurice I appreciate you coming tonight and we feel very encouraged and supportive. MM: We appreciate the opportunity to get the word out and like we tell everyone, especially the Friends of the Parks – that any idea that they have we’re willing to try anything. We do see the writing on the wall and we can see someday in our society herbicides being at zero use and so any ideas that anyone has they can come to Parks & Rec – they can give us a call – they can shoot us an email and I guarantee we will try it – we’ve tried everything told to us so far. OK. NP: Keep all those names of emails and testifiers – were there over 100 emails and over – over 200 emails and over 100 testifiers at the hearing, right? Yeah. So there’s a lot of support out there. MM: OK. Thank you. b. East Hawaii State GMAC Commissioner Ryan Kohatsu Report 7