2020-02-11 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 11, 2020 MH: At the latest. AA: I always got the emails even before I was a commissioner so the email \[unclear\] it works – so if you guys like keep up with what’s going on sign up on the sheet. LL: Thank you. b. County Managing Director, Roy Takemoto will be working with us to promote GMAC, and plan public outreach and educational opportunities RT: Hi. Roy Takemoto, Managing Director, I’m here this evening after a meeting with two of your members, Nani and Grayson, who met with us to go over some of the legislative bills that they providing testimony and in that Meeting, it made me appreciate what you guys are doing in terms of preserving the lifestyle of this Island, and also to appreciate – I know there’s a Game Management Commission at the state level. But the value of your type of commission at the county level – particularly for our county to be advocates for the unique lifestyle of the neighbor islands and I know that there’s a lot of conflict between the values of the hunters and fishermen versus say environmentalists and I think a lot of that can be mitigated with public education on what you guys stand for and to present that information in a way that Nani and Grayson were explaining to me, for example, showing how hunting complements the preservation of endangered species, also how hunting can help with wild fire management. Those kind of connections are not out there to the general public – it may be but like even for me that was kind of new information so given all of that, what we can offer through the various departments in the county to help support you folks is as much as you folks want to – interested – to put together these thoughts in a way that provides the data that supports what you folks are doing and to compile maybe the issues and concerns – but going beyond that with your proposed strategies – solutions, so what I have on the slide here is this compilation can be in a form of a strategic plan or whatever you want to call it but to help you folks think through whether or not you want to proceed along these lines. These are some of the questions that a plan such as this can address like,- is part of your concerns there’s inadequate public hunting areas – is public access to these areas adequate for you folks, how do you improve, for lack of a better word, your – the game management practices of those who are in charge like DLNR and how you can interface with them in a more effective way – so some of the outcomes of such a plan can be policy changes that you’d like to see within DLNR itself or whether it requires changes to our laws, We can do maps that identify the specific areas that you would like public access improved but beyond that to be part of the solution, you know, what, whenever we create a new public access – there’s always the concern from outside – the county side – on who’s gonna maintain it – so that’s where partnerships can be developed with community people – people like you who 30