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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 24, 2016 EC: So... TN: Did you hear me, Tom? EC: Yeah. TL: I heard you – but you forgot to say who you were, though. TN: Oh, I’m sorry – Teresa from the Kona commission. EC: So, um, there, \[unclear\] but it’s probably something also it’s good to hear – Pat’s answer from his perspective – when I look at projects I’m thinking about two different types of projects – one are management actions where people are on the ground doing rodent control in areas, um, so that would be a management project. There are also research projects, um, so when I look at management efforts on the ground – one good example is the rodent control that’s occurring on Kaena Point for albatross conservation or another example is rodent control around elepaio nesting on O’ahu and, um, you know, there is rodent control in areas where there’s Nene nesting here at, at \[sounds like Hawo\]. So there are examples across the state on smaller scales where people are doing rodent control and I would consider those management projects. The other suite of projects – and I think it’s a really good question to be asked – is we had a series of research projects that have been done over the last fifteen years and in the cases of those research projects – those were asking individual questions, for instance, you know, would forest birds ever feed on bait or – so those are individual things that ask sort of sub-questions that will build into this larger document that allows managers to have information on decisions – so there are two different types of projects that have been done – I think the ones that people see more are the management ones but in – and those are on-going. The research ones were finite and very short. ?: \[Not speaking in mic – sounds like he might be asking about Pohakuloa\] TL: Is that a research project? ?: \[Not speaking in mic – but sounds like “yes”\] TL: Ah, before I lose my train of thought here, um, when you do this \[unclear\] EIS, ah, and you start talking about these tool boxes, ah, for those that do read it – are you gonna be suggesting, you know, areas where a particular type of thing, ah, or, or, a tool or action would be appropriate, ah, so that people could kinda get an idea of what you’re really talking about, because to say rodenticide in the forest, for example, by itself, cause you’re, you’re saying, you know, where, um, other, other means might not 19