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deer in, so, that’s my two cents worth and I appreciate everything you did and I’m looking
<br />forward to seeing the final numbers, so, I appreciate it, mahalo.
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<br />MP: Yeah, thank you. Melissa Price, UH, the one comment on that is that we’re hopeful that these
<br />maps can be a toy you can use for showing, if you say, hey, you’ve got these designated game
<br />management areas – they’re not in there – and that shows that they’re not spending their time
<br />there and we think it’s due to too much fountain grass and, you know, they need to manage the
<br />habitat – the origin of this project was actually because Jason Misaki on Oahu said I need maps I
<br />can take to the legislature so I can increase hunting opportunity – that would be her origin of
<br />this project – the very first iteration of it, so, hopefully, this will help give you information to be
<br />able to back up those requests. Also, mention we have a parallel project taking place that came
<br />out of a request from ranchers to help them make better decisions managing ungulates on their
<br />land that are impacting their ability to produce sustainable locally grown beef and so we have a
<br />parallel project that looks at the \[unclear\] and there’s a number of those, for example,
<br />Ulupalakua Ranch on Maui – they said, look we’ve maximized the number of hunters we can
<br />have coming on the land – they’re allowed to come on every day but we have it organized so
<br />they’re not shooting each other, but we’ve maximized the number we can have come on, you
<br />know, breaking it down into management unit areas – and we’re still having to reduce our herd
<br />size due to the impacts from the Axis deer. So, they’re looking for other resources, oh, and
<br />they’re also paying Maui Venison to come and do targeted shoots at night and it’s still not
<br />enough to get the numbers down on their private lands for what their impacts are so, yeah,
<br />super challenging issues for private landowners to deal with and we gotta get collaborating
<br />better across State/Federal lines to address these issues, so, thank you for your comments.
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<br />LT: E aloha, Leomana, District – 3. Thank you, guys for all this work. I just have a couple of
<br />questions. My first question is because it is data are you guys claiming the leading authority on
<br />counting on population? One of the problems I had my whole life over here on the Big Island is
<br />to deal with the palila and the counting of the palila and the counting of the sheep and like
<br />accurate distribution maps and so I was outside of the authority question – what statistics do
<br />you guys use – the last one I was checking was Shelly Keegan – he’s the Nobel Laureate from
<br />UCLA and I was researching his counting methods on animals, and, sorry, one more question I
<br />wrote down, what is the land management style that you guys draw your plan from – so what,
<br />like as a Hawaiian I look back on the ahupuaa system to learn how to – as a foundational tool –
<br />to change when coming to land management – what kind of foundational like plans do you guys
<br />draw your land management skill from? Mahalo.
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<br />MP: Yeah, thank you, Leomana, for the questions, personally, I think a lot about connecting values
<br />and actions to outcomes so those three things are really important to me. What are the values
<br />that are going into our decisions? How do we define success? And then, what is the connection
<br />between the actions we can take and the outcomes of those actions and are they actually
<br />getting us toward what we say are our values and so I work a lot with different community
<br />members to say well what are the goals you’re trying to achieve here, what’s your ultimate
<br />definition of success and then how – what information is missing that we can help provide you
<br />for better decision making. So, we’re not here to tell you what your values are or how you
<br />define success but to listen to what that is. And so, we spent the last six or seven years listening
<br />across communities and frankly what you hear is a lot of, finger pointing, right…
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