2015-07-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —July 20, 2015 initiatives that they would like to consider putting in place. They hope to have the survey up by July 24. A news release to go out and survey will run for a month. Discussing hunter density in certain areas — not people management - Recently 5 & 6 were opened for the first time — the response was incredibly favorable with about 80 guys in a day where usually other areas only 30 over the weekend. About 90-95% of the harvest came from here. Looking at ways to manage things like that. Plan to develop maps and other markings for these different areas for the public. Hunting Club —the Colonel welcomes hunting clubs but it cannot be Army driven the community has to take ownership and run it. The Colonel has offered the use of Pohakuloa facility. A good example is the Schofield's Rod & Gun Club that is civilian driven project. PTA is working without a budget - working with volunteers to move some of the projects forward. They had hoped to start the parking lot area projects. The areas already identified. Materials on hand but lack the labor at this point. The most important message that having the club at Pohakuloa would bring to the community is ownership in their program. JP and BM will continue to work and try to promote but until the hunting community takes ownership will they reach that threshold of success. Possible hunting educational courses could be incorporated with the club. Lots of opportunity - please contact JP or BM to take on that leadership role. They will happily help you with the logistics and what the Army requirements are for this hunting club. The club would come up with ideas and bring them forward. Not every idea will manifest. The goal is to be transparent get the community involved and be transparent about it. Possible events would be 3-D archery shoots and or skeet and target range. But the community has to want it and support and build it and then also manage it. PTA would monitor it but the club could pretty much do what they want to do whether you have steering committees set up for various projects and so forth. Bring your ideas to the Colonel or to John and Brian. BM: What have we done the past year, as far as our hunting program goes. The Colonel is a hunter and he wants a sustainable bird population and mammals. Number one is game management In the last 18 months normally 25 to 35 people for archery all weekend long with that many mammals on a weekend take. 7