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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – January 14, 2020 <br />NP: You gotta expect this kind of thing... <br /> <br />MRH: Oh, I totally expected it. <br /> <br />NP: Yeah, and... <br /> <br />MRH: Hey, if you love sheep – raise ‘em in your own backyard Bro. <br /> <br />NP: Excuse me, that’s uncalled for. Thank you very much. So the question would <br />be if pigs are particularly a problem for eating eggs of the game birds, then I <br />guess what you’d have to do is find out how many pigs there were – pigs <br />were always there. <br /> <br />MRH: Well, pigs never lived on Mauna Kea – they passed through until the fence <br />was put up. <br /> <br />NP: Yeah, but they’ve been... <br /> <br />MRH: They’ve been coming and going for hundreds of years. <br /> <br />NP: Pigs exist in all bird hunting areas regardless, so, um, they’ve always been <br />there but where the count of pigs is high, possibly maybe they’re higher in <br />Kaohe right now than they ever have been before... <br /> <br />MRH: Yeah, because no one’s hunting pigs. <br /> <br />NP: But I mean – it’d be about statistics. Are they really the problem for game <br />birds or is it – just, you know, they eat eggs once in a while, of course they do <br />but is it the cause of their decline. <br /> <br />MRH: Obviously you’re not gonna just take my word for it. <br /> <br />NP: Well... <br /> <br />MRH: So I can give you guys some facts... <br /> <br />NP: Excuse me... <br /> <br />MRH: We also have experts here that know about the forest... <br /> <br />NP: Mark, we have someone from the audience... <br /> <br />?: How you become an expert? <br /> <br />MRH: Well, usually you work for the national park and you’re a scientist... And <br />you’re paid to do an intense study... <br />20 <br /> <br /> <br />