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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 24, 2016 SR: The only other question I wanted to ask is when you mention cultural rights – are you just mentioning like – what culture are you talking about – cause that’s always a concern to me – it seems that this native Hawaiian culture is usually what’s considered when cultural impacts are considered and there are a lot of other cultures in Hawaii – a lot of other value systems – people who value feral cats – people who value game animals, ah, some people are going to be concerned about the humane treatment of rodents and mongooses who are going to suffer with these rodenticides, I mean, it’s a painful type of a death – I’m sure I wouldn’t want to have that kind of substance, you know, poisons are, are – is a cruelty issue – so all of these are cultural issues and I’m wondering if you’re just going to be concerned about Hawaiian cultures or about everybody’s cultural issues? PC: No, I’m gonna have to answer your question from a different NEPA perspective because I’ve worked a lot with broader NEPA, for instance, with the Department of Defense and Actions and I think there are laws that look at local or native cultures that drive historical, cultural issues and narratives that you do end up when you’re looking at things from a NEPA perspective – looking at some of the other issues that you brought up and, you know, I think those are things that we’re thinking about at this point – on what to address – but we haven’t framed that yet – because we’re in scoping right now – but I think you bring up some appropriate points – so, I appreciate the statement. NP: Yeah... SR: Thank you. NP: Dr. Campbell – could you remember to speak in the microphone because the people in the back may be having a hard time hearing... EC: Oh, I’m sorry... NP: Thank you, thank you very much. JB: This is Jonathan in Kona – I have a question. TL: Yes, sir? JB: First of all, yeah, thank you for coming. Um, is it possible – I realize it may be more difficult – I don’t know – is it possible to control without rodenticides, you know, whether it would be water traps or those other kill traps or anything - is it possible? 22