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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – May 23, 2016
<br />TL: I don’t think…
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<br />JD: It’s not sustainable, yeah.
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<br />TL: ….you know, realizes that cattle in our forest areas are probably not
<br />\[unclear\] each other.
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<br />JD: Yeah.
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<br />TL: Um, yeah, and getting on Nani’s thing – I want to get back to that in a
<br />minute, but, um, the selection criteria to me is the – one of the main things
<br />of getting qualified people, um, into the commission – those that, ah,
<br />actually have a sense of how to do it as well. This is one of the reasons
<br />why we were asking for those in leadership positions because most of
<br />those in leadership positions here of both hunting and shooting groups all
<br />have experience and understand what the issues are – they understand,
<br />you know, that there’s two sides of the fence and, um, that, you know, we
<br />need the balance and whatever we recommend, um, you know, sort of
<br />provides a solution for both sides, you know, somebody who’s vehemently
<br />any environmentalism or whatever \[unclear\] that we want, you know,
<br />somebody who is, um, you know, strictly environmentalism is not what we
<br />want either, ah, we want somebody who can recognize that both sides
<br />needs to be working together – so it’s important to us that we get the right
<br />people. Anybody else have questions for Joey along those lines before we
<br />move on to… OK, um, Mark, you guys have any?
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<br />MB: Yeah, we got a question from the audience here, Tom, from Teresa.
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<br />TN: Hi, Tom, this is Teresa. How you’re going – I’d like to know what criteria
<br />you’re gonna determine someone who’s a hunter and a cultural
<br />practitioner?
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<br />?: It’s not a question to Tom necessarily.
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<br />TL: That…
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<br />TN: To Joey… I mean, I know you’re going through criteria selection but not all
<br />hunters are cultural practitioners and not all practitioners are hunters.
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<br />TL: I understand that, um, and I don’t know how to answer that question,
<br />honestly, I mean, at this time, at this point, um, but we have people from
<br />Molokai, for example, who are probably very steeped in this – who are
<br />members of these organizations and who are leadership positions, ah,
<br />that would be one. I know there’s people on Maui, um, I can’t remember –
<br />the name of that club – I can’t pronounce it is Kahanaiki, ah, organization,
<br />anyway, they’re a hunting club over on Maui, um, that are working pretty
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