2020-09-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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KS: ….\[unclear\] to remove so… I don’t… SM: \[Unclear\] KS: Sorry? SM: The other section that you guys had push out and get still get sheep inside, um, why the hunters cannot go in… KS: So you guys want to come in and push ‘em out – like walk ‘em out the way we’re trying to walk ‘em out? SM: No, you guys – why can’t the hunters go in and hunt it – that’s my… KS: We’re not removing them using lethal methods – we’re pushing them out into the hunting area where they can be hunted by hunters so I don’t understand the question. DF: Can I interrupt – this is Don, um, the only sheep that you can take in the normal hunting areas is non-typical rams, so they’re not being eradicated. SM: So before you – if you cannot push the rest out you gonna let the hunters go in and hunt ‘em or you going staff hunting? KS: Yeah, so if we’re unsuccessful at removing the last – I think it’s like 20 something sheep, we’re not gonna go to staff first – we’ll try – we’ll go public first – but I was just talking to the guy out there and he thinks we can do it – we can walk them out of the fence before we get to that point, but, yeah, we’re not planning on using staff for removal, I mean, unless it was like one sheep or something like that – what we did up at that other one but not for that larger group, no… SM: OK. NP: So Kanalu – after all the sheep are pushed out and then the grasses grow – then they go in there with weed whackers, herbicide, control \[unclear\] where they’re pushed out of this fenced in area? KS: So the fenced units are intended to be restoration areas where they… NP: Yeah… KS: …..plant and restore back to native forest. And so getting the grass down they would be using manual control and maybe herbicide but, yeah, the area – that’s the reason they’re removing the animals is because when they do their out- 12