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road for this week and next week – so from King’s Landing all the way to the beginning of <br />Keaukaha is gonna be backed up so that’ gonna be affecting all of our hunters and fishermen <br />going all the way to King’s Landing, in that back area, right by Four Miles, between Four Miles <br />and Puhi Bay there seems to be an unofficial nene habitat being created by the community. We <br />had, there was like four nene that died \[unclear\] and so the Keaukaha community is kinda <br />coming together and trying to figure out how to protect these birds from getting 1) banged by <br />the cars cause they live right on the side of the road in Keaukaha – if you guys \[unclear\] you guys <br />can just see them on top of the road and 2) there’s a lot of mongoose in the area that’s killing <br />the nene at night. I know recently there was a lady trying to kidnap a couple from the pond, so <br />Keaukaha community is trying to protect all the nene cause four of ‘em died. And that’s it for my <br />district report for today, thank you. <br /> <br />AA: Ah, District – 5, Abraham. Leomana so all the pig \[unclear\] getting in your district, that’s mainly <br />all on private property though, right? <br /> <br />LT: Yeah, that’s all on private property – that’s mostly in Panaewa, you know, all the houses the pigs <br />just run up one day kine and just rip the whole yard apart and then gone. And it’s in Keaukaha as <br />well. <br /> <br />AA: So are they talking more use of trappers or just trapping instead of hunting just because, you <br />know, it’s possibly some of the guys out there gathering, they could be caught trespassing or, I <br />mean, it’s good that they’re trying to thin out the herd and stuff but… <br /> <br />LT: Um-hum… <br /> <br />AA: ….they leave themselves open to some kind of, you know… <br /> <br />LT: Yeah… <br /> <br />AA: \[Unclear\]. <br /> <br />LT: Most of the guys that I was talking to is all the young hunters, the teens and the guys in their <br />early mid-twenties and they don’t really – they’re not really into trappings and so, these guys, I <br />just asked them for like body counts cause they’re all over, so I just, can you guys give me a body <br />count of what animals you see – whenever you guys are doing whatever you do, cause most of <br />the people that I’ve talked to trapping is so hard for them. I mean, even hunting, but it’s still Hilo <br />and, you know, it’s a little easier for them to do what they need to instead of go get the cage, <br />put ‘em in the yard, I guess. <br /> <br />AA: OK, well, get other people out there doing ‘em – that’s why I kinda like same – get other people <br />like in South end Hilo, North Hilo area that cover that and even in the upper Puna area and <br />lower Puna area that does it so, at least can kinda like help them out – help out the public, right? <br />As you talk to these younger guys, try promote the hunting license as well. <br />LT: Leomana, District – 3, is this a paid service with the other guys or does the County provide the <br />service? <br /> <br />AA: County does not provide a service, DOFAW has a trappers’ list that they can contact DOFAW. <br />3 <br /> <br /> <br />