2015-06-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—June 22, 2015 you'd be like, "What are these guys complaining about? We've got thousands of sheep running all over the place." And honestly, if they did a little bit of homework and digging they would know that, that's not a public hunting area. You can't hunt on DHHL land. That whole system of animals came there because of no hunting program. Everywhere else has fences, everywhere else is a hunting area. So there's all these things that if you talk to locals here —they would know what the issue is — but if you just ask some guy on the street that doesn't know anything about it, you know, eh, what we're here for—what this guy complaining — so just so we don't look like a bunch dummies complaining here about nothing — I just wanted to use that picture as an example that, you know, maybe what people see is not always the whole picture. So I want to try and explain it from maybe a different point of view there. The next slide... So I want to save everyone a whole bunch of time. I made around a nine minute video, ten minute video. It's on You Tube — everyone's — lot of people have probably seen it but it's basically explaining how that 700,000 acres of hunting land is not really 700,000 acres that I can keep game mammals on. So we went from the first picture —you saw the red hunting areas —and then now I've laid over all of the plans that affect those hunting areas and, you know, to be honest my data isn't fully complete. I'm missing a whole lot of fenced areas in there — but just to go over it really quickly and you can — I'll just reference the video as a thing to explain how I got to this point— but the red areas being the priority one and two watershed areas —designated under The Rainfall of the Forest Plan now of which one of the main priorities is to rid of ungulates in these areas —the blue being the Palila Critical Habitat— if people don't know what that is then you haven't been hunting for long. The purple being the Natural Area Reserve Systems — I know some people like to say that yes, we do currently hunt in the NARS area but it's not a long term or future hunting area for game mammals I- the intent of the system is to get rid of them — I'm not against or for it— whatever it is —what it is —we just need to lay that truth out there and we're not working with that when we talk about sustain hunting areas. Orange being some of the fenced areas of Pohakuloa. That's to satisfy the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biological [unclear] so that they can continue operating in the presence of endangered species — grey being Kipuka Aina Hou is kind of— I don't know if everyone can see it— but it's kind of in this area — and that's designated out of the Department of Hawaiian Homelands Aina Mauna Legacy Plan which designates that as an R4 or Native Forest Protection Region. I don't know exactly what it's called but all I know is it means no ungulates there —eventually— or game mammals. Black being some of the larger lava flows up on Mauna Loa where it's just poor habitat to keep any game. And then, of course, the magenta, which is very tiny, but you can see 'em over in Puuwaawaa and this section. Some of the fenced areas of Puuwaawaa it's missing the Forest Bird Sanctuary, which would have been here — but my original map didn't mark that as a hunting area and it hasn't been for a little while— now 4