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Hawaii County Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes — November 16, 2015 <br />V111. Discussion: <br />Edith Adkins (DOFAW) presented (power -point) an overview of the Draft Habitat <br />Conservation Plan for Game Management at Pu'u Wa'awa'a and Pu'u <br />Anahulu that they have been working on for quite some time. A 260 -page <br />document was available for folks to review. She welcomed and <br />encouraged folks to review and contact her with any questions or <br />concerns. Link on to the following to view the document. <br />htti)://oege.doh .hawaii.p,ov/Sha.red%2ODocuments/EA and EIS Online Library/OTHE <br />R%20CHAPTER%20343%20NOTICES/2015-1 I -08-HCP-Draft-NaPuu-Habitat- <br />Conservation-Plan.pd <br />Kanalu Sproat presented in draft form his plan s/goals/strategies to achieve goals <br />for game management in Puuwaawaa and Puuanahulu to accompany the <br />Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). The goal is to provide annual <br />sustainable public hunting opportunities for sheep and goats in the area. <br />In Puuwaawaa there were permit control hunts in the area. One needed <br />to apply for the hunt and a lottery was held. The most recent hunt were <br />poled rams.—Participation rate was low, 230 applicants. Prior hunts <br />numbers were approx. 400 for both of the hunts, mainly archery. The best <br />example the state has is Lana'i. They have two species that are desirable <br />to hunt there, Mouflon sheep and Axis Deer. Also, they allow rifle hunting. <br />First goal to be able to provide these things is potentially combine the two <br />hunting areas into one hunting unit, with a shared season and a shared <br />bag limit across the whole area for goats and sheep and later pigs, to be <br />able to support archery, muzzle loader and rifles seasons in the area. <br />An example of what the seasons might look like: <br />June to July archery <br />August muzzle loader <br />September to October rifle <br />Hunting unit F and hunting unit E, there is no bag limit and no rules for <br />Puuwaawaa mauka. <br />Rules need to be changed to make it one unit or not and include hunting in <br />that area and bag limits in a season. No rifle hunting there because the <br />population especially of sheep does not support that type of hunting. <br />Second goal: to increase wild sheep population to levels sufficient to <br />support all of those seasons of hunting. To achieve that goal, research. A <br />proposal in process with Fish & Wildlife Service to use PR funds to get <br />2 <br />