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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – January 14, 2020 <br /> <br />NP: Thank you. All right. But Kanalu’s gonna stick with us. We’re gonna ask him <br />more questions after he sits down. We always do. <br /> <br />KS: Yeah. Well, good... <br /> <br />NP: Thank you so much, thank you Kanalu... Oh, I’m sorry. OK. So we have Mark <br />Hanson... <br /> <br />Mark R. Hanson the “Sandalwood Man,” President Hawaiian Reforestation <br />Program will speak on “Do pigs eat eggs or fly over fences?” <br /> <br />NP: Mark Hanson you want to come up and he’s been planting iliahi in Kaohe for <br />how many years? <br /> <br />MRH: Five years... <br /> <br />NP: Five years, yup. <br /> <br />MRH: We just finished our project there and m oved down to Puuwaawaa. <br /> <br />NP: So, ah, we’re gonna get a little bit of his perspective... <br /> <br />MRH: Aloha... <br /> <br />NP: I’m sorry, I forgot to say you’re the President of the Hawaiian Reforestation <br />Program. <br /> <br />MRH: Yeah, a non-profit organization working with our state department and the <br />Department of Hawaiian Homelands to do reforestation on Mauna Kea and <br />re-introduce sandalwood and many other varieties of plants that grow on <br />Mauna Kea that were removed from the constant browsing of the sheep. So <br />I’ve been going to Mauna Kea... <br /> <br />NP: Wait, wait. Could you repeat that once – the sheep removed the... <br /> <br />MRH: Removed all the vegetation in between the mamane trees. <br /> <br />NP: I thought it was just kind of took ‘em up as far as they could reach? <br /> <br />MRH: No, after 50 years of eating and being browsed on they ate all of the <br />seedlings as they were coming up. <br /> <br />NP: Yeah... <br /> <br />MRH: So we were left with an old growth forest of mamane trees. <br />16 <br /> <br /> <br />