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that’s I think right after our next meeting so I’ll update the group with activities going on <br />around the Island for you to get involved and that’s all for me. Thank you. <br /> <br />AA: Thank you, Cortney. Ah, Leomana – just a reminder – can you please put that information in <br />the chat? <br /> <br />LT: Yeah, right now. <br /> <br />5. PRESENTATION: <br /> <br />a. Joshua Pang-Ching, Wildlife Biologist at DOFAW, East Hawai’i - Wildlife <br />Program Updates. <br /> <br />AA: OK. Thank you. Finally, we can move to our agenda. Joshua Pang-Ching. He’s the East side <br />Wildlife Biologist at DOFAW and he going update us on the East side Wildlife program. <br /> <br />JPC: OK. Aloha everyone, I wanted to take this presentation time first off to introduce myself to the <br />GMAC. My name is Joshua Pang-Ching. I’m a Wildlife Biologist at DOFAW at the East Hawaii <br />Wildlife Program on Kawiki – just north out of Hilo north but I live in Pepeekeo now. Born and <br />raised in Hilo. I’ve been at DOFAW for \[unclear\] 6 years – in my sixth year I just started with the <br />Wildlife Program November of last year, so, mahalo all of you for what you do –it’s important to <br />us and \[unclear\] districts for people like myself who are at the government so, mahalo, again, I <br />just have some brief updates from our East Hawaii Wildlife program, ah, just as a reminder our <br />program coverage of our works stands north most at Kalopa Forest Reserve, south to Manuka <br />and then it encompasses part of Mauna Loa but, um, and then everything Mauna Kea, Kohala <br />(unclear), so that’s, as Abraham mentioned we’ve installed some new check-in stations across <br />Puna, ah, we actually installed four as of yesterday, one at Hawaiian Shores subdivision at the <br />end of Kaala Street in Nanawale Forest Reserve along Railroad, emergency route. One at <br />Nanawale Forest Reserve at the Y – just \[unclear\] Tree State Park; one at Malama-Ki Forest <br />Reserve north of MacKenzie State Recreation Area.We also opened up a little parking area there <br />for \[unclear\] park off the road. And then lastly, yesterday we installed one at the Kilohana Forest <br />Reserve off of Kalaupana Road at the upper Puna road – the junction up \[unclear\] and upper <br />Puna. These were, you know, as Abraham mentioned was kinda in the works for a long time and <br />like \[unclear\] we spear headed the check out for \[unclear\] as well as to help with – as Abraham <br />mentioned there’s some rules that changed for those forest reserved – increased bag limits as <br />well as increased hunting days from weekends and holidays too, ah, daily, so this will hopefully <br />help us and hunters, you know, track each other’s efforts and communicate to people out there. <br />We also installed on - they had Kalopa golf courses there by the Kalopa State Recreation Area, <br />again, Kalopa is also has some rule changes they’re also going to move to daily hunting, <br />weekends and holidays as well as increased bag limits – kinda spread out – hunting days for <br />hunters out there – kinda let the use overlapping recreation between other overlapping users <br />and then the last one that we installed was in upper Laupahoehoe Forest Reserve at the north <br />corner – halfway Punalei – just to kinda help guys that come from Waimea, check-in, and, they <br />hunt that upper Laupahoehoe section, ah, that’s it as far as hunter check-in stations. Ah, I’d just <br />like to give a brief summary of our – East Hawaii 2022 – 2023 general game bird season, we <br />track data – we had a little bit more in-depth for three major bird hunting areas: Kapapala <br />18 <br /> <br /> <br />