2021-12-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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arguments were heard – but they went through and they passed this thing anyway – it’s here – so, I can’t argue against what you’re saying… AA: Right… PS: ….but it’s already here… AA: Well, I guess, Abraham – District 5 – as you said – they already did the research on that bio control and what is it? It’s not working? PS: No, it’s working the way they expected – it’s just moving kind of slowly but still moving – and it’s been put out in a lot of different places so when the wind blows and the galls are there and the little bugs are little and mites are out and they go and it’s just already happening. So I can’t – that one can’t be put back in the box. AA: Right… Abraham – District – 5. But that’s a slow snail process, right? Who knows… PS: Yeah, biological – Peter Simmons – biological – I’m not an expert. I think, one of the things I’d like to emphasize to everybody here is that we’re at the early stages… AA: Right… Abraham – District 5 - but at the early stages is a good time have all these questions and comments come out… PS: Exactly, exactly, and that’s why we’re here and that’s why we would like to continue a dialogue as we go and make sure that we can do the best job we can. We may not agree 100% but if we agree 80% - if that 80% that we agree on – we can back each other up – we’ll have more… TN: Excuse me – Abraham, Teresa, can I say something? AA: Make it quick Teresa – it’s time to wrap it up already on this subject. TN: Bishop Estate – Kamehameha Schools – back in 1974 – did a single forestry planting of koa trees close together on Mauna Loa – then they understand that that type of single forestry didn’t work so they did a mixed forestry – fenced off an area and when we went to plant over 50,000 koa seedlings the koa trees in the ground – the seedlings were already starting to grow – but we planted them anyway and it started off their mixed forestry. Natural, biological control instead of bringing in foreign species and granted the federal parks brought in that mite to kill the strawberry guava is already here – the slow process is the way it’s supposed to be. Don’t rush things – cause nature takes time. And it should be done in increments in places that is mapped out with input from GMAC and other organizations and other landowners should be considered. So if this is the embryonic stages of your planning then include everybody into the process of what has happened in the past and what can be done in the next few years – a twenty-year process is too short a time – you have to be looking at hundred years – don’t be so short sighted. Your twenty-year project is not long enough to see results of slow-growing forest – this is Hawaii – we are isolated – nothing grows fast except alien species – get rid of the gorse – get rid of the other immediate alien species that are crowding out the native species and I’m talking from the native, endemic weeds that people think are weeds of which is actually medicinal plants – it’s teas it’s herbs that grow up in the forest in the high area and in the low-lying areas. 16