2022_01_18 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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NP: I do – Nani here… AA: Hi, Nani. NP: Hi everybody. Thank you Peter Simmons for coming again to talk to us, you’ve been the most approachable and friendly – appreciate that you would like to return public lands to the people – that’s awesome – I have a couple questions – has anybody researched into whether native honey creepers feed on the strawberry guava blossom and, if anybody done any research as to how the biocontrol diminishing the strawberry guava will affect our wild game resources as far as our pig, , I’d like to know if any research has been done on those things and another question is – how will you then control the secondary invasives of Himalayan Raspberry and Clidemia, I’ll end those questions there. PS: OK, Peter Simmons. I happen to have – I took a look at the EA again today and, but, I see JB is on the line here and Ian too and I’m sure they know better than me but I believe I read that it was the – our native birds are not dependent on the waiwi but I stand to be corrected on that but one thing I would like that I would ask that instead of it being gee how are you going to control Clidemia and Himalayan Yellow Berry and on and on and on. What I would like is for us to say how are we going to do it – how are we gonna do it – because there’s a big prize out there if we can figure it out and there’s nobody thinking that it should be done in a day – but look we all, I believe, it should be done if those lands need help and so where to start. Where’s the least disruptive place that we can start to learn the most? And, at this time we, HFIA has a grant from the Honua Ola to look at some methods of controlling strawberry guava both mechanically, the heavy equipment – the three different techniques with heavy equipment – as well as looking at aerial means – as developing the tool box – not to go running out and do all those things you might be thinking about – and that’s where I believe that making this a collective action that invites the creativity of the entire community, it would be a great benefit and not to go faster than we should go but to make some progress as can be done. NP: Yeah, well, um, excuse me – well, my question was – was there any investment into scientific research into whether the native honey creepers – that being that the blossom is very similar to the Ohia, would feed on strawberry guava or is that just an assumption that they don’t? PS: That’s beyond – I don’t want to answer because I just don’t know 100% on that one. I think it’s an important question. NP: Yeah, being that the Ohia are so, diminished. 7