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KS: So, about 250 acres maybe a little like 260 or something like that. It’s a – I know one boundary is <br />kinda the Old Saddle Road and then you got Daniel K. Inouye Highway and then PTA on the <br />other side of the small portion of the boundary. It’s just, yeah, it’s just directly across the street <br />from the Gil Kahele Recreation Area. <br /> <br />RD: And then do you have any counts on game mammals in that area. <br /> <br />KS: We don’t – no – we don’t have any survey information about how many animals are in there, <br />yeah? The area is directly adjacent to PTA which has a lot of sheep and some goats and so the <br />animals, kind of freely flow between the two areas, but, yeah, just for that small area I haven’t <br />known too many animals in there. <br /> <br />RD: If you had game surveys would you then be able to narrow in on whether or not you just want <br />to rifle or you wanted just archery? <br /> <br />KS: Ah, the reason that we’re going to just archery is because we believe that the number of safe <br />shooting lanes in there, yeah, is very limited for rifle and for that reason we want to go to <br />archery. It doesn’t have to do with the number of animals. It has to do with how small the area <br />is and how many – how limited it is in the way you safely fire a rifle to dispatch an animal. <br /> <br />RD: Just one final question – is this area under any game management plan? <br /> <br />KS: Under a game management plan? <br /> <br />RD: Do you have a game management plan with biology support for this area? <br /> <br />KS: Not for – no not for that area – that area is under active eradication because of the palila. <br /> <br />RD: Thank you. <br /> <br />BL: Brian Ley, District – 4, hey, just a quick question Kanalu. Has there been any report of any <br />firearm offensives or any near misses or cars hit or anything like that – is there anything to – any <br />issues besides just the blatant little too close to the road scenario? <br /> <br />KS: No, I haven’t had any direct phone calls from anybody about it. I should – I would guess that <br />that would mostly go to the DOCARE officers if they are. So I would check with them, but I <br />haven’t gotten any direct like, hey, somebody shot him in the head or anything like that. <br />Nothing. It’s always just hypothetical. A lot of guys complaining about what could happen. <br /> <br />BL: All right, thank you. <br /> <br />AG: Austin Griffey here, District – 6. Um, thanks Kanalu, I’m in full support of swapping this to <br />archery area. I’ve hunted this area before, and actually been sneaking up on animals and gun <br />fire over the distance and sheep run out there – totally shooting them the same direction I was <br />in. The only question I have for you – are you guys gonna put up some boundary markers so that <br />people can tell where the perimeters are so they’re not walking into the PTA area – cause not <br />everybody has that online mapping system that shows you where you are at all times. <br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />