2020-01-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 14, 2020 NP: Jaerick? JMG: Jaerick Medeiros again, um, thank you, that was awesome. That was pretty, real accurate. But I wanted to just share something that I experienced on being up at the Mauna the past six month. I’ve been going up there probably three to four nights a week and, um, since they opened the road I noticed at about 11:30 at night – I was a Humu’ula – parked up there talking stories with friends and, um, you asking maybe the reason why the birds are not around is because the military is killing ‘em. Being with the bombing that we’ve been experiencing up there – it was the craziest thing, man, the smells, the metallic smells – the luminous and all that stuff, you know, the chafe – we literally watched as two Navy planes fly over Humu’ula dusting out the whole place at 11:30 at night – just blackness – you think it’s mist but it’s literally dust – no, it’s called luminous. I looked it up. It’s also called chem trails, it’s called smart dust but this is stuff that the military is literally spraying over the mountains. That could be a reason why the birds are not being productive. I don’t know but I looked up what they’re doing and public law 105-85 is allowing the military to do these chem trails and we really can’t do nothing about it but I think what you mentioned makes sense that, you know, it’s so much bombing going on there up at Pohakuloa – two – what two months ago. It’s crazy. The first time I see that, you know, it’s like bomb! Things just shaking it was like whoa. I stay up there – I sleep over – and the next day your nostrils burn, you know, so I got it tested – arsenic. They swabbed my noise – arsenic, you know, so maybe that could be the problem – I’m not sure – but thank you. NP: That’s an interesting thought. Thank you. JMG: Yeah. TN: Teresa here in Kona, Nani, please? Are feral cats being controlled up at the Mauna where the bird population is supposed to be thriving. Do you know, Brian? BL: I’ve seen one live cat and tracks on R1 this year. KS: We trap for cats at the water units and we do have some trap lines during the bird season – though we use conibear Traps – body grips – but we don’t use those during the bird season because of their potential harm to dogs – so during the bird season we don’t do much cat trapping. We do a little bit of live trapping, um, but not like we do outside of the bird season, so we do trap for cats and mongoose on the mountain. TN: Teresa, again, so have you seen the population of the feral cats or mongooses increase or decrease through the years? 34