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

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I’m good to go. But some places it doesn’t check-in offline, even though it is still active online. You can totally walk into the forest with no service and it will give you a pin point where you’re at. So, I support the app, this app is good. Jason –Awesome, this is Jason again DOFAW, I think -if the app is up and running and you go out of self-service, you should still be able to check-in. As you know with any new technology like this, we have to test it and you know we’ve been testing it since the beginning of July. I think about 3,000 people have downloaded this app already, which is a lot. We will start seeing some little things accrue that we will have to fix them. So, you know we’re working hard with the developers and making sure this is going to be exactly what we want. I would say in the next 6 months we will probably have everything kind of worked out the way we want it. I want to integrate tags and permits in here too. I’m working with a vendor right now to have, so we can have all of our tags and permits electronic. You can just go online and purchase your tags, you can print them off at home and attach it to your game animal with a plastic tags and a rubber band. Eventually maybe, we will mail tags to folks and stuff like that, but you pay on line. And so that service is almost ready. So there’s going to be a portal eventually on the Go Hunt website where you can go apply for your lottery, buy your tags, and buy your special permits that are on Kauai, Pu’uwa’awa’a or wherever and you’ll have your own profile so you can look at all your information, hunter education, your license, your tags, permits, all that good stuff. So, hopefully we can get that over to the app 2, right now, it is on the Hunt Go website, but we will have links on the app that you can go and view all the information too. What I’m trying to do is just get all of our permits, and any hunting need…I just want to make all of that electronic where people can view their information at a later time. Abraham – Right, like you said, the app already gives a lot of resources to, not only to hunters, but, if your hiker and it has a family oriented trails. It has fishing areas, if you ride dirt bike there are dirt bike areas. There is a whole bunch of things on this app. This app is pretty - very informative in just its infant stages. I can just imagine what’s going to happen in the next 6 months with this thing. Jason – Yeah, I’m excited kind to see where it’s going to go. I think a lot of other divisions will buy in on it. We can fill up a lot more information in there. We want to kind of make this DLNR official outdoor recreation app. I’m going to keep pushing that way. But like I said the first step was to get all the DOFAW stuff in 22