2015-03-16 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—March 16, 2015 JB: I agree. As far as what's the new proposed regulations, I believe that PTA will be classified under Unit E, if I'm remembering that correctly, I don't have that with me tonight...Which I believe is along with Puuanahulu, which is a game management area, so to answer your question I do think "yes" it is considered a game management... There are a number of additional hoops and things that we need to get through. Like I said, it's not just the state but it's also federal and military rules that we need to abide by, I don't want to open up an amusement park where the rides don't work. That's not my intent. I want to explore to the extent possible what we can do. What I've been told by my supervisor is build this program the way you'd like to see it and if it's shot down in the review process, so be it. But build it the way you'd like to see it — so again — we're very early in the process — I wish I had a little bit more actually developed and ready to show you, to bring to you folks at this time — but this is where we are in the process. DP: David Penn, for the Division of Forestry and Wildlife provided update on the commission on the Kau Forest Reserve Access Initiative. Handout circulated - basically a series of maps that comes from our 2012 Kau Forest Reserve Management Plan and some of the other mapping that we've done over the course of these various projects that feed into this initiative. At the end of last month the Board of Land and Natural Resources approved DOFAW's request to go ahead and finalize the memorandum of agreement with Edmund Olson Trust—the landowner on what we call the Phase 1 — we're in the process of hoping to get Mr. Olson's signature on that Memorandum of Agreement as soon as possible and once that is done, we can go ahead and begin the construction of the fence line for Phase 1 — about a mile of fencing or so that goes across his property on both sides of the proposed access route. It's vehicular access to get up to the bottom boundary of the Kau Forest Reserve and since we got that board approval work started on Phase 2, which would go across a Department of Agriculture land that's leased to Mr. Galimba for pasture. That's about another three miles of fencing. On that one, what we're hoping to do is just to actually put the fence below the forest reserve boundary within the State Department of Ag land so that it's on the bottom side of the road, so we'd be fencing on one side and again retain that vehicle access all the way across the bottom of the forest reserve boundary until you pretty much reach the gulch on the other side. And then on the other side of that gulch is where the waterfall road comes up, which is the other access route that's shown on your maps there. So that's the current plan, we hope it's all gonna work out and that we can get going on this maybe even over the summer to get started putting things in. 12