2022_12_13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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AA: Any other questions or comments for Kanalu? I see Stanley Mendes. SW: Mr. Mendes, you’re muted. AA: OK. Stanley last call, Stanley. SW: Ah, Chair, it appears that he’s having some technical difficulties. I have asked him to unmute through the… SM: Yeah, OK. Kanalu – where up on the Mauna Loa Road did the lava \[unclear\]? KS: Ah, I’m not sure. I’ve seen pictures – it’s two different spots where it crossed. I don’t know how high up, sorry, I don’t know. \[Unclear\] the road. SM: Cause get on the road that goes towards \[unclear\] one gravel road about four miles up. KS: OK. SM: So, it came below there or above? KS: I honestly don’t know. I know it came, I mean, we know that it came closer to the road, right, it was almost what 1.7 miles from Daniel K? So where did it cross? I’m sorry I don’t know. SM: OK. And that state park – how much an area – you going turn ‘em into archery or it’s just gonna be no hunting period. KS: We’re gonna turn it into archery on the PTA side of the road. Right now it’s still closed and it will probably remain closed for as long as Mauna Loa is closed because of the lava, and then we will do a 1020 rules change – kinda like that rules change that we – that draft that we sent to you guys – we’ll do the same process to change that space into an archery space. It’s about, like I said, it’s about 250 acres and then on the Gil Kahele side it’s about 100 acres that we turned into a safety zone. SM: So, no hunting period in the Kahele side? KS: On the Gil side, correct… Between the highway and the fence no hunting – it’s a safety zone. SM: So approximately about how much around the park \[unclear\]. KS: About 100 acres. Yeah, about 100 acres. AA: Abraham, District – 5, so that’s completely around the park maybe what 20 yards, 50 yards wide? KS: Um, I mean the boundaries are pretty much the Daniel K Highway and the fence. The six foot \[unclear\] behind the park. SM: And on the Hilo side… 20