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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – May 23, 2016
<br />per 100,000, ah, bicycle riding, 904, skate boarding 869, for hundred thou
<br />– hunting is 8, you know, hunting is the safest thing that kids should be
<br />doing, so, and we took advantage of these, I mean, you can do anything
<br />with a statistic, um, talked about what we do in the field – it’s a dinner
<br />plate, um, who pays for wildlife, ah, economics of hunting which we talked
<br />about briefly, you know, where tourist hunting is something that Hawaii
<br />really desperately needs to, um, be thinking about. When we – and we
<br />may have brought this up before – when we brought to the Hawaii
<br />Tourism Authority, um, about public hunting and tourist hunting here in
<br />Hawaii, um, what, what is it that they needed from us in order to promote
<br />public hunting here in Hawaii? Now, I got a letter back from their director
<br />who said, you know, hunting is not on our template, ah, you know, and
<br />yet, um, you know, everything else DLNR does was, you know? Fishing,
<br />boating, you know all this other stuff, so, you know, there is a bias maybe,
<br />I don’t know, but, um, you know, there’s certainly an ignorance of hunting
<br />and what it does to other places and, ah, the monies that can come from
<br />them in other places and how that can translate to DLNR having funds to
<br />do things like taking care of some of the, ah, preservation issues that we
<br />have and providing money for – that’s always gonna be there, you know,
<br />when you rely on the federal government, you know, they’re going broke
<br />so eventually there’s not anything going to be going on here and, you
<br />know, money’s got to come from somewhere, so we have the opportunity
<br />24/7 365, ah, and good weather. People go to these states – Gulf States –
<br />because of the weather, ah, you know, Texas, Louisiana…
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<br />MB: Hey, so, Tom? It’s Mark in Kona.
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<br />TL: Yeah?
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<br />MB: So, um, the Outdoor Heritage Day or the Heritage Day you would deem
<br />successful?
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<br />TL: I do.
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<br />NP: Yeah.
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<br />MB: You do. So I guess my point – I’m trying to learn something here, right?
<br />So, um, as we – I mean next year legislative session we’ll probably have
<br />another bills or series of bills, I mean, what, I mean, I think it’s important
<br />that in some way, shape or form we document either for the group or for
<br />the new members that are gonna join or, you know, what if – what did we
<br />do well – what do need to do better – when do we need to start prepping
<br />for it, right, I mean, I just, um, I’m glad it really went well and I’m glad it
<br />pushed 1041 and, you know, HCR22 over the edge, um, but, you know, I
<br />mean, a lot of this is about execution, right, so, um, important that we
<br />kinda disseminate – if I’m gonna do it again next year – which hopefully
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