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order that the department more adequately focus on the <br />respective responsibilities of each? <br />4) We constantly hear of the 700,000 acres available for hunting on <br />the Big Island. It is rarely if ever acknowledged by DLNR that much <br />of these lands are inhospitable to either game production or <br />preservation, leaving essentially a narrow swath of usable habitat <br />around the island in competition with each other. <br />Despite designated hunting areas including Game Management <br />Areas found within these limited habitats, there has been no <br />opportunity to relocate game to any of these locations while <br />fencing and eradications within these same regions continue <br />unabated. <br />Two questions concerning this : <br />a) What will you do to facilitate the management and relocation <br />of animals if applicable to preclude their eradication from other <br />areas? <br />b) Wouldn't it be appropriate for DLNR to discontinue any more <br />fencing till we get a viable game management plan <br />implemented and in operation rather than encouraging a <br />practice of diminishing returns for the game program? <br />5) In 2003 a Habitat Conservation Plan for Puuwaawaa and <br />Puuanahulu was initiated. Today, 2015, we still don't have a plan <br />in place. How is it that it takes a dozen years to complete a plan? <br />Our Watershed Initiative took less than a year to implement. <br />