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Our natural endemic species are climatic – they grow mountain to ocean – so you haven’t <br />thought about the whole entire process – please don’t just bring your book knowledge here and <br />other experience into this island that is unique and has endemic species that grow nowhere else <br />in the world and think foreign, alien pests will get rid of other pests. It doesn’t work – a forest <br />growth is slow – it is never fast. Thank you. <br /> <br />AA: Thanks, Teresa. <br /> <br />KU: Kean – District 2. Don and Peter – I’m kinda in support. I agree about that strawberry guava and <br />waiwi – I think that for me I’d like to see a test plot done – like what Tony said – I think you <br />should start there… <br /> <br />PS: Yeah… <br /> <br />KU: ….we want some numbers, you know, if it’s gonna take like Teresa said 100 years, you know, <br />let’s get it out before we start going into the other areas and see where that goes. I think that’s <br />a good test. That’s my opinion. <br /> <br />AA: OK. Thanks Peter and Don… We’ll bring you guys… <br /> <br />DB: Thank you for the opportunity… <br /> <br />AA: Yeah, come back – we’ll bring you guys back in a few months and see what you guys get <br />updated and we’ll do some research of our own as a committee and we’ll move forward with <br />this. Again, I’d like to introduce Mr. Peter Simmons again – he’s gonna discuss goat over <br />population on the west side and throughout the state. <br /> <br />PS: Yeah… <br /> <br />SS: Excuse me, this Sydney Singer… <br /> <br />AA: Yes, Sydney… <br /> <br />SS: I was supposed to make a presentation and it was about this subject – so before we move on do <br />you want to hear an alternative view and some other issues regarding what we’ve just been <br />talking about - waiwi? <br /> <br />AA: I think that’s perfect, Sydney – you can move in. <br /> <br />c. Sydney Singer, Environmental Anthropologist and book author, will share alternative <br />viewpoints in forest management. <br /> <br />SS: OK. Well, I think a lot of you remember what we went through back in 2009 when the County <br />Council voted a resolution opposing this scale insect. I want to say that, you know, it’s <br />interesting that attacking the strawberry guava with Tetracoccus – this scale – seems like <br />everyone is served \[unclear\] ahead with \[unclear\] don’t know the ultimate outcome \[unclear\] <br />what’s the ultimate presentation of the forest that you want – I think, really, that’s the way you <br />need to start before you start killing things and infestingen worse. It’s important to realize about <br />17 <br /> <br /> <br />