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any available public spots that hunters might be able to go park and enter the forest or are you <br />guys looking for that kind of help from local hunters and fishermen to help you out with maybe <br />going inside and getting a lot of the pig population down to a manageable level? <br /> <br />JM: Yeah, we’re definitely working with local hunters – that’s one of our top priorities, um, I don’t <br />know if you’re aware of like folks like Uncle Lloyd Case or… <br /> <br />LT: Um-hum… <br /> <br />JM: ….ah, well, um, sorry I don’t know the other names \[unclear\] my head but we’re having <br />meetings with like the two - two of the elder hunters in Waimea that kind of are in <br />communication with most of the hunters in Kamuela in general so they’re helping us to make all <br />the hunters aware of what’s going on up there. We’re trying really hard not to leave anyone out <br />of the local hunting community – we want the elders that are hunting there to really help us <br />spread the word and those hunters are also joining in our talk story sessions in Waimea at Tutu’s <br />House, and they’re kind of giving us some guidance of like, you know, how to best involve the <br />community in the hunting and even other practices as well like the native forest regeneration – <br />native out-plantings, ah, the things that area gonna – will benefit the watershed, and we’ve <br />been getting a lot of positive feedback. As far as access, there’s a list of hunters that are signed <br />up on the Parker Ranch access and I think that they have to renew that every year – I’ve never <br />been on that list – I hunt as well but I’ve never been on that list for Parker Ranch but I know that <br />that’s one of their things is go through a process to sign up with them and I think there’s like a <br />couple of safety briefings and then you’re allowed access through the ranch gate, after you <br />attend all the, you know… <br /> <br />LT: So, to get in and get access in. OK. Shoots. <br /> <br />JM: Ah, no, I think there’s public access – I was just pointing out the – I guess the main access points <br />through Parker Ranch. There’s a public access that you can drive all the way up to the forest line <br />as well, um… <br /> <br />LT: I’m from Big Island but I don’t want to just go hunt anywhere and, I kinda want to be courteous <br />and if you guys got any instruction or any key places to go, then, I’d feel better if I can be <br />instructed on your land so – if you got any instructions like that then you can present that to us <br />and then I would love to come and hunt Kohala and stuff. And, I know… <br /> <br />JM: Yeah, so pretty much the hunting areas there in Kohala that are open to the public like DLNR <br />hunting land – there’s many, many areas of public hunting land in Kohala. I think you can access <br />through the DLNR website. I don’t work for DLNR or Queen Emma Land Company, so, I’m <br />actually working for a non-profit in Waimea – the Kohala Center – so I can’t say like…where <br />people can hunt where, where people can hunt but you can access that on the DLNR website. <br />Then also, like I said, Parker Ranch. It sounds like it’s pretty straight forward to sign up and, if <br />you wanna be respectful to the local hunters I would just reach out to someone like Uncle Lloyd <br />Case. He’s got plenty aloha. He really like invites his community to go along with them – he’s <br />invited us up to come explore trails that he put in when he was a keiki and stuff so, yeah, I’d <br />reach out to Uncle Lloyd, or one of the elders that hunt out in Waimea, and there’s other – <br />11 <br /> <br /> <br />