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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – March 21, 2016 <br /> <br />RS: OK. So EIS, all right, so, what always gets me crazy is that you go through <br />this whole scoping process, you take public comments, you do your <br />alternatives, or, you know, should we do, or this, this, and this, but then <br />someone else up high makes a decision and a lot of times they pay no <br />attention to what the public, who you all work for – the public – what are <br />concerns are. People on Hawaii Island, here, are not gonna want poison <br />distributed, all right? But you’re gonna have someone in the U.S. Fish and <br />Wildlife Service – most likely in Washington, D.C. decide – well, the heck <br />with it – the Palila or whatever you guys are gonna do is more important <br />than the people’s wishes here and it – what it does is it just creates <br />tremendous dissent with the public and they won’t support your programs <br />and, um, anyway, so, back to my question, so who do you believe – who <br />is gonna make the decision on what methodology that is gonna be used? <br /> <br />?: Well, we’re hoping to have a whole bunch of methodologies to use… <br /> <br />?: Yeah… And each – like this is gonna be the programmatic side, so it’ll just <br />give us the options and then whenever we actually go to site specific <br />areas we need to still do the analysis. It’ll just make it a little bit easier for <br />us to decide what our options are and what the best approach is with <br />those particular constraints of that site-specific option and for their – in that <br />situation it’s the people on the ground – the biologists and the DLNR staff <br />– who will be making those decisions. <br /> <br />TL: All right… <br /> <br />RS: So your agency will – will be doing that – it won’t be the Fish and Wildlife <br />Service? <br /> <br />?: They do work – they manage refuges as well. <br /> <br />RS: But as far as this… <br /> <br />?: On our lands it’s our decisions. <br /> <br />RS: OK. So the feds aren’t slamming this down your throat being we’re talking <br />endangered species, right? <br /> <br />?: No, this is, this is a joint EIS… <br /> <br />RS: Yeah… <br /> <br />?: ….it’s the federal and, as well as, DLNR. <br /> <br />RS: Ah, thank you. <br /> 11 <br /> <br />