2023_01_17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes (DRAFT)

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to fencing of private property. This is always gonna be a concern in our area I think and even the Chair Abraham said he’s got \[unclear\] calls for pigs. I’m sorry, and yet another one I don’t know if the pigeons are considered wild game because they were brought here as a food source and so I don’t know if that’s under our jurisdiction or not but there’s a huge influx of pigeons in Hilo area in our District – 3, with the zebra pigeons and also that colorful ones – I don’t really know the name of ‘em but they’re that ones that hang out on top of the poles and stuff – they’re becoming a big nuisance downtown popping all over the sidewalks all over the cars and just causing a mess. Some updates on District – 3 since 2014 - 60% of the ohia forest has died and decreased in population – this caused no iiwi to be in District 3. The last place the iiwi was seen was in upper Kulani in the back of the Ainahou Reserve. There’s gonna be a harbor extension – they’ve already been working on the harbor extension coming towards Coconut Island and Reed’s Bay area. They’re in the process of extending it – I know the plans they said something about submarine base at one point and then now, according to the director at \[unclear\] it’s just – he didn’t say anything just more shipping containers and more area for the barges to come in. The last two months there were 2 million gallons of raw sewage released into Keaukaha – Keaukaha is the only beach access for humans on the East side of the Island – so we have 2 million gallons of raw sewage in Keaukaha and the closest beach to the raw sewage ley and distribution is only Kahakaha Beach which is the beach that houses all of our babies, all of our keikis and so there was 2 shutdowns last year and I’m expecting 4 shutdowns this year of the beach itself due to bacteria warnings and I only talk about these situations because it has to do with a lot of the fish population in the area. Keaukaha houses all the fishponds for all the brackish water fish and all of the fishponds in Keaukaha are closed off because they’re private property and there’s only two ponds open to the open ocean leaving the aholehole, the mullet, the wo’owo’o spawning area, spawning grounds in the brackish water. At the end of Keaukaha in King’s Landing behind the airport – the military is acquiring more land - wasn’t able to talk to any of the military personnel to see what they’re doing but I do know from going to the Hawaiian Homes meetings the last three months on You Tube on their lives that the Hawaiian Homes Commission said they’re turning King’s Landing area in to some sort of area reserve and the future plans for King’s Landing is to be turned into a tourist walking park so they want to build like a tourist destination that you go walking into the park, into the ponds back there. These ponds are the only ponds accessible to the ocean for all of the fish to spawn and that’s what’s gonna happen to King’s Landing area up until the military boundary line behind the airport. And then, like you were talking about access into all of our forest reserve areas – because last month they had all the road closures and I know they bull dozed a couple more miles of forest – firebreaks – cause of the lava and then DLNR on our last meeting last month even they are concerned that it was done behind Kulani – from upper Kulani going all the way to Mauna Loa Access Road that they bull dozed for firebreaks. So that’s another access point into District – 3 from the top from Mauna Loa Access Road and also from Volcano into all of our forest reserves for the top area. And that is it for me, thank you. AA: The King’s Landing expanded \[unclear\] the community know about that \[unclear\]. Abraham, District – 5. LT: Leomana, District – 3, in the DHHL meetings there’s no like – you can only observe what they talk about there’s no commentary so I think the Pipio Wana’s daughter was leading that project cause there were people living back there plus all of the uncles back there that I know – they all moved out and I guess they came into some agreement where they’re trying to turn that area 3