2021-01-19 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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very well. I’m not sure about all of them – I don’t know enough details about all of them but in a couple of the areas they’re doing very well. AA: So in the areas that are doing well – is there a time later in the future that, you know, you guys make enough plants that maybe you can re-establish the game back in those area or just like once you guys get those plants off the list – cause plants grow pretty quick? I suppose… So can you… KS: Oh, I’ll be honest with you – I don’t think that would be an end goal to try and put animals back in the fenced units. It’s more likely, in the long term, that if they are continue to be successful and restore within those fences is good – but that’s like really long term, like 40-50 years. It would be more likely that maybe you would expand your fences outside of that to restore your habitat outside of the fences and so the short answer to that – I don’t think – that’s not part of the plan – I don’t think that would happen to a point where we’ll now let animals back within the fences. AA: Well, is basically the question that you kinda – I was going more towards what you just kind of answered – once you guys get one area that’s growing good and stuff then you guys just will fence more and keep on going. But at one point, let’s say fifty years down the line, like you said, will the fences all be removed or the fences will just going to be stay there in the forest? KS: No, I mean, there should be some sort of maintenance on the fencing where you’re keeping it up to throughout the fifty years and you’re replacing and fixing and keeping the fences… AA: My thing is if the forest is going so good why you going to still need the fence in the forest in the good areas – then you’re expanding more out and more out, you know what I mean? KS: Yeah, yeah, no, I understand what you’re saying – there’s probably going to be after my life is over… AA: Yeah, might still, no worry. So what’s the numbers of the black moth like is that population getting better also or is that population staying down like the palila or what? 8