2021-01-19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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animals from within those fences – and then outside of the fences, in theory, you can have these mammals and manage for that, like I said at the end of the presentation, internally, there are some – we’re not in a consensus yet about that part of it – and so we’re still working towards, I guess, towards finding an acceptable answer to that. But at the beginning – so this is long before I got there, right, I’ve been with DOFAW for about almost 7 years and they’ve been doing this since early 2000s, so in theory, yes, that was the goal, but as administrations change and different managers come in and different understandings about our laws, I guess, take place – it just hasn’t gotten to that point yet, I guess, so that \[unclear\] idea – we’re still trying to figure out if that’s legal and how to make it work. SM: So in those areas could you enhance anything, I mean, plant stuff that the animals would go to instead of going by the endangered plants? KS: Like to lead them away from the plants possibly? SM: Yeah, yeah… KS: Yeah, that’s still part of the discussion about what we’re legally allowed to do or not unfortunately so that was the idea – not necessarily to lead them away, I mean, the whole idea is that you’re going to fence the good forest and then within those fences anything outside that was lost would be replaced within the fences – and next replace I think it’s like 3 to 1. So that was the idea behind the plan but we’re not there yet. SM: Thank you. AA: Kanalu – Abraham – District 5. So how’s you guys replanting program doing now that you guys replanting in some of the fenced areas? KS: What are they doing? AA: No, how,is it doing? KS: Oh, you know, I think Elliott Parsons would be the best person to talk about that cause he kind of leads that project. Some of the areas they’re doing 7