2022_02_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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– now they have what 700 or 800 traps on Mauna Kea, or something and last year they trapped 121 cats, which the year before they trapped 70 and so I wonder, I think predation probably has a role in that as well. I wonder about rainfall, and when the rain events happen, yeah, if you look at the annual rain it might look OK but when all of that rain falls in four days in the year because you get these huge storms – I’m not sure how beneficial that is for the birds. Yeah, I don’t know, it’s just all stuff I wonder about. SM: Stanley – District 1, again. I took notice few years ago now – that when we used to hunt there weren’t baby birds like the erckels, franklin and all that, now, you get lotta – during the bird season you get all that young birds – the baby stuff – so, you guys can figure out why, no? KS: Yeah, and like I would think about that is dependent - is when was the rain events that was beneficial for the hatch that year… SM: Right… KS: Because they can have multiple egg laying hatches within a year and so but we don’t have any weather type of recording stations in the hunting areas to record that data – I do have two though that I do want to put out – I just got ‘em though, so we’re working on getting those on the program – you got a program you got to find a place to put ‘em – that would be something that could help – I don’t know. Something else that we are exploring is to at least try to help bolster – is – I’ve been in contact with somebody from Kohala High School that wants – that has built a fly pen and is ordering chukars and wants to do it as a school project and they want to release it in the public hunting area and so I’m planning on going up there and talking story with them – we’ll probably support them a little bit financially but he’s found some good money resources so he doesn’t need too much help but he needed help with the permitting process to bring the birds over and so if our agency participates in that that helps when he goes to the Department of Ag to make things a little easier and we intend to do that as a start for this year to do something to help track with that, but, I think, you know, like you guys are saying or at least it feels like – there’s more to it than just that… putting birds back – it’s like finding out what we can do to help them out there. 5