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feral populations and manage them and also people who have experience in mitigating hazards
<br />on our highways and that’s why you see Department of Transportation is involved in this – the
<br />Police Department is involved in this – people interested in biodiversity and the environment so
<br />we have people who are working with invasive species, for example, um, Board of Agriculture,
<br />um, and so on, OK, so it’s a wide range of people, um, so on the next slide – first meeting we
<br />had was in February. It took a while to get started – \[unclear\] six months we actually had a
<br />meeting – somewhere around there, um, but at the first meeting you can see there’s a whole
<br />list of people there – some people from DOFAW, some names that you guys are probably
<br />familiar with like Kanalu, who’s our game biologist I guess on the west side, um, ah,
<br />Steve Bergfeld who’s a manager over here for DLNR. And then some other people from even
<br />private landowners like Parker Ranch. OK. The hard thing was we spent the whole first meeting
<br />just introducing everybody. The second meeting we had to re-introduce everybody again
<br />because a whole bunch of different faces showed up – right now – I don ‘t know exactly who’s
<br />all the players in this Task Force. But, I guess, if the name appeared once in the Task Force – they
<br />had provided some input into it, um, so at that first meeting we reviewed HCR 17 so everyone
<br />was on the same page. We selected a chairperson – Jason Omick from DLNR, um, he scheduled
<br />the next meeting, um, which was – I don’t when that meeting was – I don’t have the date, um…
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<br />SW: Now…
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<br />AN: The third meeting was on the 22, OK, that’s the most recent one and that’s actually where we
<br />started, I think we started getting some ideas down, OK? And that’s when Jason passed out that
<br />one paper that you have – the one that says Feral Ungulate Management Plan for West Hawaii.
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<br />SW: Do we have the full name of that person – Jason who?
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<br />AN: Jason Omick.
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<br />SW: OK. Thank you. The chair.
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<br />AN: Yes. It was, um, and he’s from DLNR so it was Jason Omick and Kanalu Sproat that – Kanalu
<br />actually, I guess, presented the ideas that are in here and, um, I not sure where this sits right
<br />now because, um, and I had some concerns with it because it was presented at the meeting but
<br />was also the same time – I don’t know if you guys remember but there was an article in the
<br />newspaper that talked about this and it was like – in the paper it sounded like this is what we’re
<br />doing already. And then, we get this – that I’m think, oh, we still discussing this document. So,
<br />um, basically, I think this is where we’re working – this is my thinking – I probably have to clarify
<br />this but my thinking is this is our draft working copy right now – this is what we’re working with
<br />– so I provided feedback to Jason and the committee or the Task Force, um, based upon some
<br />discussions I had with other hunters and some ideas off the top of my list \[unclear\]. OK? So I’d
<br />like to go over those topics real briefly and if you have any input on any of this I can add that to
<br />my comments that I sent in to DLNR. Um, I remember, this, this is coming from DLNR – it’s not
<br />coming from the invasive species people, it’s not coming from UH or the other players, um, this
<br />is coming from DLNR. And so, um, then I remember when – what the status is of the Game
<br />Management Plan yet in the hunting areas, I guess it’s same as it was \[unclear\]. No change. So, I
<br />don’t know if this is gonna change it or not and then, you know, there’s also all that other rule
<br />changes \[unclear\], so, it’s confusing so anyway maybe I can just go through this I think line by
<br />line – I think I did it on there so \[unclear\] the next slide. So, when we look at – these are the
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