2021-07-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes (2)

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Abraham – I got some comments actually, after you do just a brief presentation about it. Jason- Ok, basically this app, I don’t know if you used it on your phone yet but. Abraham - Yeah I used it. Jason - We did a couple surveys back in 2017-2018. And we’ve been getting a lot of feedback from the public that they want electronic check-in and harvest reporting information and you know that regular way we collecting harvest, it has a little bias to it and some non-compliance so to be able to get a better set of data from harvest information and hunter trips verses success and whatnot. We’re going to try and utilizing the mobile app to capture this data. It’s a convenience to the hunter. You can check-in from your truck before you hike to your unit, and you don’t have to hike to go to the check station if you don’t need to. So just providing the little levels of convenience. As we were developing it, this app we unfolded that we could put all the trails system, all the wild life sanctuary’s, national reserves, forest reserves and everything. So, I basically spend a year cataloging all DLNR assets, land holdings and what they are, catalog them and put them into this app. So, in this app you can check into the unit. We do have hunting areas like Lanai or State Pu’uwa’awa’a where we have man check stations, where we, I’ll probably just continue to do that manually. I am working on Lanai to make them completely electronic, but there are some places that will still have a manual check-in. And people can still manually check-in, you know you don’t have to use the app. But with this app you’re able to check into places even if you’re offline. This app works offline, and you can see where you’re traveling in your hunting maps and recreational maps on this app, to a few feet, so you’ll know if you’re out of bounds. So yeah, it just gives people a sense of security just knowing where you’re at. And we can ask different questions, like when people are checking in, I can ask like are you hunting with dogs? Do you have an assistant with you? Just to get a little more data but the bottom line is we’re going to have information that is easier to analyze. And look at the trends of these check stations. So yeah, it has night mode, you can use it at night, you can use it offline, and DOFAW asks you for your check-in you can just show them your phone. Just kind of an ease of providing information. There’s information on trails, the topography the transitions, eventually, we will be collecting usage data like when trails are busy and when they aren’t. Hunters can log into their app and see 20