2021-12-14 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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afraid, is our natives are simply are not equipped to deal with the likes of strawberry guava – they can’t biologically complete – they will lose that game – so I would love the idea that we could walk away – leave it alone and the ship would right itself but the ship’s got a great gaping hole in it and guys it’s going down. It will get worse every year as we go along. So those are the lands of particular interest – those lower elevation lands are going to have to be turned into – if they’re ever going to be the strawberry guava come off of them – they’re going to have to be made into useful lands whether agriculture or forestry lands – if you just take them off – we all know that it’s gonna come back again and other invasives will come back with it too. It’s gonna be a long complex learning process on managing the weeds and balancing those species with the animals that should be in that land – this is not gonna be simple – and we’re not, again, as Peter said, we’re not gonna try to do 600,000 acres at once – I go for I’m gonna say as a fact – I’m not gonna live to see it all done – but we can give it a hell of a good start and point the direction up the hill and demonstrate the processes by which it can be done and by which we can identify the other problems that will emerge as we go along – Tony Sylvester is correct – no doubt about it – that’s what’s gonna happen – seen it before. AA: Again, any commissioner or people from the public have any comments or questions for Mr. Bryan and Mr. Simmons… NP: I have… AA: Go ahead Nani… NP: Oh, thank you… Thank you. I have some comments from the public, Nani Pogline. So other invasives – right – we’re talking about Himalayan Raspberry, we’re talking about Clidemia – they’re just as vicious and they can get awful tall and they can smother native species like anything else and they don’t produce any food. The other consideration I think of is deterioration – strawberry guava when it’s dying it will lie down horizontal – it’ll stay non deteriorated and create a thicket where you – you know, a horizontal thicket – you would have a harder time traversing through it that we’re vertical and another concern – what about second, third, fourth effects of biocontrol. I mean, it goes on and on – think of the other infestations that feed off the original biocontrol effect and then, pig food. The strawberry guava creates pig food for our pigs which are a valuable resource to GMAC and hunters – and then there’s the ugly factor, I mean, do we really want to look at an environment that’s just diseased strawberry guavas along with the dead ROD Ohia – it’ll be so ugly – and then liability– so biocontrol does not stay put – it travels – so private landowners are going to have a big mess to clean up – who’s gonna pay for that – is that gonna come out of private landowners pockets so that could be something also – so those are my big concerns, thank you. AA: Hey, Brian… BL: Brian – District 4 – OK, I got two questions – one was – when the legislation passes something there’s always money attached to it and the first question is who’s responsible for mending the roads and the access that were originally there that they let go – you have any idea who was – was it the State the County, the Feds? I mean, if there was access and they just took the money and pocketed it instead of doing what they were supposed to do with it… 8