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<br />BL: Yeah, they set the trap up but like I said they shouldn’t have rebounded that quick.
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<br />AA: Well, last I knew they had 800 traps around that mountain somewhere.
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<br />BL: Yeah, he said \[unclear\].
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<br />AA: OK. Moving on to section 7 – presentation, section a - Alan Nakagawa, Hawaii County’s GMAC’s
<br />representative on the Feral Ungulate Taskforce Committee. Morning Alan…
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<br />7. PRESENTATION:
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<br />a. Alan Nakagawa, Hawai’i County’s GMAC’s representative on the Feral Ungulate Task Force
<br />Committee.
<br />AN: Good Morning. How much time do I have? \[Unclear\] just kinda put something together and just
<br />sent it.
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<br />SW: Yeah, just a moment. It’s because one is the presentation computer, and one is the meeting
<br />control computer. Just a second.
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<br />AN: Sorry for that – I just sent the PowerPoint in late this morning. Well, maybe, while she’s getting
<br />that up, let me just introduce myself real, real briefly and then, ah, yeah, I got a couple of
<br />questions so that I know what I need to go over, you know, in this presentation so my name’s
<br />Alan Nakagawa, I live in Kamuela, I’ve lived on the Big Island my whole life and I hunted
<br />practically my whole life, so I had a real strong interest in this, I don’t know how many of you are
<br />familiar with, HCR 17 that was presented by David Tarnas, Representative. Is anyone not
<br />familiar with that – do I need to go over that real briefly?
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<br />AA: Ah, real briefly just to get everybody up. \[Unclear\] Abraham, District – 5.
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<br />AN: OK. So Representative Tarnas presented a resolution because of all the phone calls, I guess that
<br />he was getting about traffic accidents involving our game animals: pig, goat and sheep – mainly
<br />goats. It seems like the discussion within the Task Force to develop a plan that centers around
<br />goats and mainly, mainly on the west side. So, his resolution talks about the hazards on the
<br />roadways, uncontrolled population of feral goats in both public and private lands, their impact
<br />on the environment, their, um, the need to have public resources we use to mitigate that and all
<br />of these issues that came about and, you know, to the phone calls and discussions that he had
<br />and he wants to see a collaborative effort, um, to effectively manage the ungulates – mainly,
<br />sheep, goats and pigs that are causing these accidents on the highway. So that’s where the task
<br />force came from – it came from that resolution. So there are a number of people on the Task
<br />Force and actually it’s the next slide already – kinda went over that real briefly - yeah, so, what
<br />you see there and you can go to all those bullets there – those are the – that’s the
<br />recommended members for the Task Force, um, so, I representing GMAC, um, and basically
<br />\[unclear\] the hunters. So you can see there’s a wide range of people who are on this Task Force
<br />and honestly not all of them are aware or possibly then support hunting – so it’s just one voice
<br />in this committee, um, when we look at the kids of expertise they’re looking at – in the next
<br />bullet – click it one more time, yeah, so what they’re looking at is people who are able to look at
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