Laserfiche WebLink
plantings those animals will then go eat the fresh young plants right? And so <br />they’re trying to stop that from happening. <br /> <br />NP: Any other questions for Kanalu? Comments? <br /> <br />KS: If that’s OK I’ll just make on comment that you know you mentioned R1 earlier <br />and we did – so every year we do try to touch it up and fix as much as we can <br />before the bird season starts because, you know, it’s a larger road – it goes <br />around the whole mountain, but just so you know we do have a bulldozer up <br />there right now and our operators will be working on that road before the opening <br />of bird season. <br /> <br />NP: Oh, that’s good news, thank you, that’s great. <br /> <br />KS: Good. I’m glad I could bring some good news. <br /> <br />NP: Yeah, thank you. <br /> <br />BL: Hey, Brian Ley. I’ve got a question for you… I heard a lot of grumbling that the <br />eradication helicopters were also shooting pigs and other ungulates besides just <br />sheep on Mauna Kea. Is there any truth to that? <br /> <br />KS: I can’t speak anything to that – I don’t think they are – so other ungulates that <br />they can shoot would be goats, if there are goats, and that was part of the court <br />order - so we remove sheep and goats. As far as pigs, I don’t think so. I’m never <br />in the helicopter – I’m never part of the operations. It’s not something that is <br />reported. I don’t think they’re doing that, but, I mean, if you guys have – I guess if <br />there’s any kind of proof or anything – video or whatever, maybe it can be <br />brought to our attention but I don’t think so. <br /> <br />BL: OK. I just heard some grumbling and I wanted to clarify it at a public level and <br />stuff like that – what about the cattle salvage that was going on by somewhere – I <br />remember a couple of people were in on them – was that considered an <br />eradication when they were doing the meat harvest on the cattle. <br /> <br />KS: You know, I guess that would be a type – an eradication – and so I apologize. I <br />don’t have information on that. That’s something that the East Hawai’i Wildlife <br />Section kind of heads with the Forestry guys and I think that was out by <br />Keanakolu, but yeah, I’m sorry, I don’t have any information on that right now. <br /> <br />NP: Thank you. Any other questions or comments for Kanalu out there anywhere? All <br />right, well, then thank you Kanalu so much for showing up. <br /> <br />KS: Yeah, you’re welcome. <br /> <br />13 <br /> <br /> <br />