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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – March 21, 2016 <br /> <br />BK: Please state your name… <br /> <br />MB: Your name… <br /> <br />RC: Aloha, my name is Rochelle Ching. I have lived here in Kona since 1977 <br />and this morning I read something on Facebook that a friend of mine <br />posted and it’s from a family I’ve known for over 30 years and it’s a very <br />strong hunting family and I want to say I for one like smoked meat, <br />anyways, the topic was aerial spraying or dropping of rat poisoning over <br />our forests. I don’t – I don’t see those words on this piece of paper but <br />that’s why I’m here right now is because when – and that came down from <br />a taxidermy in Hilo – that that was meeting – something about GMAC and <br />DLNR – so I’m here today because I heard about aerial dropping of rat <br />poisoning – so my first response was to first do a little Googling research <br />and I was able to find articles from California to the East Coast to Canada <br />where they’ve done that and they’re regretting it. These articles are been <br />there, done that, wish we hadn’t. So then I went and broke it down a little <br />deeper and OK, so we’re spraying the rats because the rats kill our birds <br />and our fauna – anyway, the rats have this horrible disease and blah, <br />blah, blah, blah, OK, but what eats the rats normally is our owls and our <br />hawks and we can’t reproduce those when those are gone – so that’s an <br />issue and how about our hunting dogs? How about our soil, how about our <br />water? How about the piggies? How about the people that eat – I’m just – <br />I’m a little bit – I was just taken back that we would even consider doing <br />something like that. Hello? We’re over here dealing with GMOs and now <br />we’ve got to worry about rat poisoning – the rat poisoning does crap with <br />your blood and I don’t know about you folks but that’s just not a healthy <br />thing for us to introduce into our system and, yeah, I will agree, we, I’m <br />sure we have a problem except for I’m sorry I’m limited, I’m thinking of <br />Waipio Valley that’s the limit of my hearing about the rat problem. Um, so, <br />if we have a problem, I just ask that we would look at it - what’s already <br />been done – let’s not repeat the mistakes that have already taken place <br />elsewhere. There’s gotta be another way we can approach this with the <br />benefit of everybody. <br /> <br />NP: Yeah, I’d like to say something. Um, you can go to a new website – it’s <br />www.nopoisonhawaii.org and it has a lot of information about the draft EIS <br />and you can read the draft and you can also – there’s a site you can leave <br />a comment for the draft EIS – so please do, please do. It’s <br />www.nopoisonhawaii.org . <br /> <br />RC: OK. Thank you very much. Thank you for hearing me. <br /> <br />VII. Discussion <br /> <br /> 3 <br /> <br />