2015-03-16 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes—March 16,2015 Action: W. Camara moved to include government affairs and administrative with the legislative committee and change the name to Government Affairs and Administrative Issues. Seconded by T. Sylvester, motion carried unanimously. DY: This is Ike. I'm on the public access sub-committee and I did talk to the executive who staffs the PONC committee and she clarified a few things for me. There are two avenues of approach on this 1) one is as it relates to the Finance Factors property—she suggested that we go through that nomination process and nominate the parcels for inclusion on the PONC list. So I've begun that—filling out the nomination papers and I will bring it back to you guys prior to action. 2) second is as it relates to that access to the Pepeekeo Area —the Hilo Forest Reserve —this person was super helpful and a day or two after I talked to her she took a group of guys up to the area and walked the trail and basically she had told me that surveying of the trail etc. that's what they were supposed to be doing. So she's following up on that for us. And, she was invited to attend our April 20th meeting. The other area I mentioned was the Honomu access and evidently the Na Ala Hele Commission has talked about drafting a letter to the County to do something. I'm not real clear on that. But the Na Ala Hele crew said that the County had to do something before they would be able to do what they needed to do. So I don't know if that letter has been drafted or where that is — but it seems like they're moving from their side as it relates to that Honomu access. So those are the two things that I worked on, TS: [Unclear] nomination papers must be in by the end of June. WC: District 1 —We had met again on our Laupahoehoe management plan — that thing is kinda rolling through — I think the final —one of the most final drafts is kinda out and they're gonna have it at their next LAC meeting. One thing that had kinda got me little bit by surprise was some critical habitat designations in Laupahoehoe and beyond area. I was hoping that maybe — not April, maybe further— May meeting — if we could maybe get the Fish &Wildlife people here to try— maybe explain the process at which these areas get designated as critical habitat. BC: I have a letter drafted for that particular purpose. I think that the main thing we're gonna have to do is the logistical part of that, which is how we get the person over here, right? I know their budget is a little bit limited but the main thing is we invite them and hopefully, we can find a date where they can get here. Ideally it would be in the May meeting, like you were talking about, but we may have to work with them a little — but I have a letter drafted out to disseminate it to you guys. 15