2015-11-16 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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I-iawaii County Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —November 16, 2015 There is a procedure to request that the board hold hearings for topics on the island that they affect and they do that sometimes and it would be reasonable for you guys to include those in your comments if that's how you feel. « How do you measure success with all the federal dollars that are spent here? SF: You have to make decisions about how you want to allocate the limited amount of funds that you have so you're talking about management, surveys, monitoring, building roads, fire breaks. Could do monitoring, you can do surveys, you can track hunter success and that's an index of what's going on with the game resource. What I would recommend if you guys want to explore this is that five year plan lays out what actions we're doing everywhere on each of the areas we're managing to it identifies the questions you're asking in different areas what exactly is being done in terms of surveys and that sort of thing. You guys should get involved and give us feedback or bring this into your working group and work on that, if there's different kind of monitoring that you want to see in some areas — work with Kanalu for West Hawaii, work with Joey for East Hawaii, work on writing that in to the next five-year plan. It's seven or eight months out right now, so it's a good time to do it. Where is our game management plan for the Big Island? SF It is being reviewed by the field staff and they've given their comments and edits. It will be made available for public review/comments hopefully in December. Concern was raised regarding plantings in fenced areas that are dead, Please report the area so staff can check it out and determine why these plants have died. Bird hunters have been going up Mauna Kea and been going into Area A why must we drive all the way back down to Kilohana, check out — drive all the way back up and then, if you go around the mountain, you have to drive all the way back to Kilohana again. Why can't you check out one time? I mean, if you go in there, if you hunt Area A, it's noted — so you hunt in Area B —just note it. SF We do want our data to be accurate as far as area and so we do keep track of hunter trips and birds for hunter and all that stuff by area and so if you're checking in at the bottom of G and you want to check out the top of G, now you're asking us to go and find your names on both sheets and put it together and so for us, as far as the data management perspective it's much easier just to have one spot that you check in and check out and put 10