2021-06-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Mintues

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Steven Bergfeld — it's pretty close. When it was cane, before you use to be able drive through the cane and get to the forest reserve from either side. But I know the west side is gated and managed by the lumber company, they were allowing access at one time, but I'm not sure where that's at now. Stanley- That's where they were going to lease to have a dairy? Steven Bergfeld — Yes, this is lease for dairy, they have dairy cattle and beef cattle there. We are in the process of clearing the iron wood trees that came in there, because we are asking for access through their property, we got to put in some work ourselves. Abraham — Anybody else has questions for Steven on this area? Okay Steven you can go forward. Steven Bergfeld — Barbara do you mine doing the Makahanaloa slide. There we go. Excuse me, so this road in red is there is the similar situation with Akaka Falls area. When the private land owner did the subdivision, they were required to put in this trail, or access route that go to the forest reserve. The problem is that it goes to the corner of the forest reserve, because even though on the map it says Hilo Forest Reserve that was a really old layer, when we had forest reserve designation on private land. I will get to that section of the forest later in my presentation, when I talk about this Hawaii Koa Forest purchase that we are working on. So that access corridor actually goes to private property right in the corner of the forest reserve so if you jump diagonal you would be on the Kaiwiki section of the Hilo Forest Reserve. So we had a subdivision plan that was approved in in 2012 and that access corridor is 55 feet wide 805 feet long. The public access plan states that the applicant will clear vegetation in the easement area, there was no parking or maintenance requirement included in the plan. As of March of this year the easement was still not cleared, as required in the plan, and we have been talking with our County counterpart, to enforce that with the private land owner. So, this easement, once it is cleared on the ground then people should be able to use it. Anyone have any question on this one? Abraham — I would just go back to my original question. Sounds like this one is different department for the County, so, my question is pretty much be the same. Is there something we can do to push this one? Because, sounds like this one is ready to go, you just, the landowner just got to clean the area. Maybe, can get 0