2022_08_16 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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the gathering access up in Volcano Transfer Station. So, um, it’s a plus, we’re moving forward with that, ah, anybody got any questions or comments for that? SW: Hi, Sylvia Wang – Deputy Corporation Counsel – I do have one comment. I know at the last meeting you had mentioned wanting to pursue potential separate access through the state and wanting the hunters who are going up there to continue to login. Is that still your request? AA: Um… That’s on hold for now. I guess we’ll just try leave it the way it is for a little while and that’s what I’m gonna bring up to DEM if they can just leave it like this for maybe six months and if there’s not bad tactics or vandalism to the facility that maybe they can, you know, just move the boulders more towards the back or just getting \[unclear\] altogether. SW: That’s you \[unclear\] and are you still asking the hunters to sign in? Is there still the sign in sheet? AA: Yeah. There’s still a hunter check in station over there, so, yeah, it doesn’t matter if you’re hunting in that specific area or any part of the Island – just please do you guys sign in, check ins. Do you guys, yeah, sign in sheets because like we said in our other meeting – the more people that sign up in that area or just any area it shows hunter usage and you know it’s a plus for – so you can actually sign in via paper, hard copy, that’s at all check in stations or now there’s like – I said before – there’s the outer special app that’s much more better, convenient. NP: Ah, Nani Pogline here… AA: Hey, Nani… NP: \[Unclear\] Sonoda, the chair of Na Ala Hele Council, recommended that GMAC also seek alternatives, um, because he said that when there’s change of guard, you know, the boulders could be put back again and that actually happened when Tom Lodge was Chair a few years back – he did have the boulders moved and then they were put back but, um, he said that’s it’s good to have an alternative \[unclear\] like DOFAW making an alternative route. AA: Right, so that’s why when I go and talk to DEM that’s what I’m gonna try have them, you know, write something up as best as can – but, like I said, it’s just – let’s just try the six-month period if there’s no vandalism or anything that happens then we can kinda use that as evidence that they can just either remove it more far back or just get rid of it altogether, right? Are there any other questions, comments? AA: Thank you, um, New Business - I go move down to Committee Reports, a real quick one. Under Committee Reports we have cancellation of the 2022 GMAC Hunting/Fishing Expo. So we’re gonna cancel that whole expo because we came 17