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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – May 23, 2016
<br />as well and a vibrant industry that provides tax dollars to provide for the
<br />preservation of our resources in innovative ways would be a very good
<br />thing for Hawaii to explore and, but, Hawaii seems to follow what they’re
<br />taught and if all you’re taught is fence and eradicate, you’re not
<br />predisposed towards any other application like they are in other states,
<br />you know. Rick certainly is the gentleman that could, you know, address
<br />that. So that’s – in my opinion, um, that HCR is a great resolution – it’s a
<br />resolution – it says what, you know, the legislature wants of DLNR and
<br />what they want of the other agencies that touch upon these various
<br />aspects and, so, that was adopted. We’ve already talked about HP799 the
<br />Uniform Aeronautics Act, um, that passed and, um, I was curious about
<br />some of those who voted for that, um, we had people that voted no for
<br />this. We had DeCoit from Molokai, McDermot from Kaneohe – I think he is
<br />– McKelvy also voting no, um, people like Cindy Evans and I don’t know if
<br />– who all was on that – but she was on that, um, voted Aye with
<br />reservations and, ah, I don’t know if that’s just a cover-your-butt thing or
<br />not, but, ah, it was a little disappointing, ah, 1041 – we’ve been discussing
<br />that – that passed – we need to recognize Tony Sylvester, actually, for this
<br />in a big way and Mark, also, um, who took the project on two years ago
<br />and has been struggling with this for two years and he kept at it – when
<br />others maybe would have just said, you know, I’m tired of all this negative
<br />stuff and, ah, so any of you that know Tony, um, he’s the guy, really, you
<br />know, we should go out there and give him a pat on the back because it
<br />was his efforts in large part, ah, is what got this thing rolling, you know, ah,
<br />he needs to be applauded, um, our Heritage Day, ah, I don’t know if you
<br />want to take that Nani – you were the one that brought all the food and the
<br />setting and…
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<br />NP: Ah, well, it was really positive, um, I think it was well worth while, um, we
<br />got to talk to a lot of people in a short amount of time – we pounded the
<br />pavement but it was really positive and, um, and it was a really great
<br />opportunity to represent the hunters – when we went up to the Heritage
<br />Day, um, it was a positive – it felt good to make it a positive thing to do
<br />because so much of the time we’re feeling like we’re, you know, creating
<br />negativity because we’re going upstream and there we just giving smoked
<br />meat and telling everybody that there are hunters in Hawaii, yeah. What
<br />do you think Tom?
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<br />TL: Yeah, no, I, um, you know, Nani, I plug Nani for, you know, number one
<br />taking the time to come down early in the morning, um, we had mixed
<br />connections and she got it to work, um, got there on time and she brought
<br />a setting for us that was very attractive and, you know, and attracted
<br />attention, ah, of course, she brought some smoked meat, too, that was
<br />already cooked – the people could try, um, and anybody – it was like she
<br />said it was a very positive thing plus on top of that we went and saw with
<br />one exception, um, Puuo or Puu ha \[spelling unclear\] with one exception,
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