2015-04-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Mintues

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—April 20, 2015 NA: From my perspective, and I'm gonna speak on a personal level, as a manager on this island. I have a very finite budget and I have to accomplish certain goals that are set. Some of them I set for my staff and I and others are set for me by either the policy or the direction or the initiatives that are set down. When it comes to selecting certain areas that are going to be high priority areas —either because of their uniqueness or their impactness or things that still remain — it may be habitat of a rare plant or rare birds It's the long, slow degradation of things. It might not happen today, it might right away— can somebody be there to stand watch every day to make sure that when something does come around that there's something there to protect and we can't be out there so from our perspective with the limited staff and limited funds it comes down to a cost benefit analysis or an analysis of, is this worth it? Is this something that we're supposed to be doing? NP: If you're limited by a budget, like you say, why would in Kau make fences that you know go from east to west. Why don't you just make smaller kipuka areas that are the most important areas and then that way you know there could be passage for migratory animals and hunters to go without having to get some kind of special permission and key to get in? That's a couple different questions. NA: OK. I'm not sure which Kau project you're referring to... NP: I'm just wondering why if the budget is limited why can't you just pick certain smaller areas in islands — in an island style — in a kipuka style to fence rather than making these long fences that block the migratory patterns of the game animals... TL I think what you're saying is that, you know, Willie-Joe has a — he works with that advisory committee out in Laupahoehoe and they have a fencing project now— I think it's 5,000 acres, if I'm not mistaken. But that started off as like a 50 acre deal — 500 acres possibly maybe at the most. WC: Yeah. I mean it—the goal is to get rid of them all. So to answer Nani's question —why not make small kipukas— is the goal is they don't want small kipukas they want the whole thing. NP: But if they're not budget for it... MB: Mark from Kona. Nick walk us through a process by which a potential NABS area is identified through the decision of we're gonna fence and 13