2020-01-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 14, 2020 TN: Is that possible? BL: Yeah. TN: Because the more we put an album together and actually see what’s there the better picture we have in helping everybody bring the natural habitat for all these species to exist cause before conservation came here everything existed – so we didn’t have as much fires except in the dryland forest areas – not so much on the Mauna. So, you know, I support you and let’s see where we go from there with enough evidence that we can gather what you see up there – that would be great. Thank you. BL: One other thing I forgot to mention that Brian Leo is working the game management on PTO even though he’s only been here a couple years – he already knows that there’s something wrong with the game birds and he’s actually taking liver samples and crop samples this year off of PTA and like I said, you know, why is the palila population going down? We have more mamane than we’ve ever had. The sheep are gone, I mean, there’s no correlation. Why? You know it’s what I’m looking at it’s the same thing that happened with the RODs – same thing – I live in Leilani – I walk my dogs everyday – I notice something – talk to some neighbors – we took some samples to the Department of Forestry and the University and they said there is nothing wrong - you guys don’t know what you’re talking about and two years later ROD left Leilani and devastated the Island. That’s what I’m afraid is gonna happen here. Everyone’s saying we’ve got issues, we’ve got issues – what’s happening to the birds? But everyone says there’s nothing wrong. But it’s gonna be another Leilani in the ohia trees again – it’s just gonna wait too long before we look – surveys – you know, I could say how come we don’t have any scientific evidence on game birds – are they seed destroyers – are they seed spreaders – you know, do the migrate – what’s the thing – and, oh, it’s like \[unclear\] the fence that they have along Parker – why do we have a fence that keeps the birds out? We’ve just keeping sheep out – we don’t need a fence with tiny little things where the birds can’t migrate back. The birds aren’t an issue – why do we have a six foot tall fence that birds can’t walk through along the fence line. You know, that’s not an issue – I don’t know why we had that and the fence is upside down and I don’t know if it’s incompetence or if it was purposely put upside down with the small wires were to the base of the ground. Anyways, so... SM: Stanley from District 1. I took Nani last year I think was we went up Puuwaawaa and you know where the bird sanctuary is in Puuwaawaa and where it’s not. And you can see the difference. The life how it’s living out there without the fence and in the fenced area is just overgrown you have fire weed in there and all the stuff that the animals cannot eat. So that –right there you can see the difference, you know? And it’s what they doing to Mauna Kea. 32