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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – August 17, 2015 <br />look at Hawaii Revised Statutes 195D-2. Look at the case notes. In there <br />you’ll find something to the effect of in order to collect funding from the <br />Federal Endangered Species Act, the State of Hawaii impliedly <br />consented to be sued under the act and may have to eradicate the sheep <br />and the goats on Mauna Kea. OK. What I’m doing here is I’m moving <br />away from the symptom. OK? The symptom is lack of game <br />management. OK? We’re going to the root of the problem. The problem <br />is not lack of game management. The problem is not lack of money for <br />game management. The problem with this whole situation is Endangered <br />Species, cut and dried. If not for the endangered species, there would be <br />no critical habitat. Without any critical habitat, game management could <br />occur. OK. So how about putting everybody’s heads together and a lot of <br />effort and request the State of Hawaii to delist the species that can be <br />delisted. You go get the book called, The Hawaii Plant Cluster <br />Management Plan. <br /> <br />c. Is Legislation/Resolution Giving Shooters a safe place to shoot <br />statewide a priority? <br /> <br />It was decided that Chair Lodge should meet with the director of the <br />Department of Parks and Recreation first to see what plans the county <br />may have or land that may be available. <br /> <br />d. Legislation/Resolution Comprehensive Statewide Game <br />Management Plan in all forest areas? <br /> <br />It was decided to concentrate on the constitutional amendment <br />reaffirming protections for Game Mammals first. <br /> <br />e. Promotion of Hunting and Fishing by the State <br /> <br />Chair Lodge: A letter was written to the Hawaii Tourism Authority <br />regarding hunting to be promoted similar to fishing. They wrote back that <br />hunting was not on their template and is of no consideration. And yet <br />when we did have that commission bill they wanted, they inserted a <br />Hawaii Tourism Authority representative in that bill. So, since they’re <br />already thinking about tourism, from that failed attempt that we had last <br />year. Should we try again and get them to promote hunting here as well <br />as statewide? <br /> <br /> Response: We cannot promote something that we don’t have. The <br />numbers that you’re looking for already exist in the Fish & Wildlife Service <br />consensus. The economic impact of fishing and hunting inside of it and if <br />the State doesn’t want to recognize that then, they’ll never recognize <br />anything. <br /> <br /> 9 <br /> <br />