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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 24, 2016 EC: OK. I got one. See what I’d like to do today... WJ: Now, it’s off. There... VII. DISCUSSION: 1. Dr. Earl Campbell, (USFWS) – power point presentation on Programmatic EIS on Rodenticide and their broadcast use. 2. Dr. Campbell, Dr. Siers and Patrick Chee of DLNR to discuss the use and broadcast of Rodenticides as part of a “tool box” of available or to be available alternatives to the control of rodents and mongoose to include mechanical and aerial broadcasting of rodenticides. EC: OK. Is it on now? Thank you, so what I’d like to do today is just to present a PowerPoint on sort of a broader effort that the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Land and Natural Resources and a range of federal and state agencies have been working on dealing with rodent and mongoose control in the State of Hawaii and one of the key things I want to do is to make sure that everybody here has correct information on what we’re trying to do and the goals of it so one of the key things that I’m interested in and our agencies are interested in is to try to look at rodent- mongoose control from a broader programmatic sense and to try to do it better and safer. So what I want to do is just to cover the initiative that we’re doing. I want to touch base a little bit on what the approach we’re doing – how we will accomplish rodent and mongoose control and eradication and how can you get involved and this process actually has been on-going for probably about a year or so – so we’re in the midst of it and I’ll – I will touch base on where we are on the timeline in the process. So the first things I’m going to touch on is what is the initiative, why is it needed and who is involved. So the purpose of the initiative that I’m gonna be describing is to develop and make available to conservation entities in Hawaii an effective comprehensive landscape-level integrated pest management approach for rodent and mongoose management. And the key thing that we’re looking at is we want to provide managers a tool box that shows them the safest, most effective methods to manage rodents and mongoose in natural resource situations. So, again, the focus of this is solely in natural resource areas or natural resource situations. So, as many of you are aware, rodents and mongoose negatively impact Hawaii’s native species and also native cultural practices. It’s – you look on this slide here a range of things that have been negatively impacted or consistently impacted by rodents – just as an example – but impacts of rodents in Hawaii on natural resources are very broad. I think one of the things from my experience having worked on this issue is my mind typically goes to the impacts on birds, um, and seeing examples like that, 6