2023_11_21 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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IC: Just got to remind all the districts to remind your constituents in your districts to use the check stations We got four or five new ones in Kau and very few people using ‘em and I can’t account for people that don’t sign in. You know, I know it’s part of the – part of the culture but I can’t be like, oh, this gets a lot of use ‘cause I have no record of anyone using the area but I know they’re up there so, just kind of my standard reminder for all districts talking to their different various folks. JPC: Yeah, I’ll echo what Ian just said when it comes to like what we talked about earlier – buffers along the Piha when there’s people. The Administration who ask us – we get, ah, it’s the guys who are on the ground managing, working with the hunting communities – it’s not the check stations. They ask us like, oh, do a lot of people use this area? And all we have – we know that guys use ‘em ‘cause we see them there but all we really have to show them is numbers from check stations or, there’s other stations now that people use but, ah, if there’s any suggestions as Ian would say that I’ll give any hunters that is to check in and be a count, not counted but present \[unclear\]. ?: Present. JPC: Yeah. RD: Duerr, District 1. Did you ever consider using a game camera? JPC: Um… We have in some areas but like I mentioned that Manuka – the biggest issue we have is \[unclear\] the cameras, that is, you know, they steal ‘em and if we put ‘em then they shoot ‘em, you know, they don’t like to be watched. Not that we’re watching ‘em but even just like wildlife projects… LT: Yeah, I know those guys. JPC: I get it, but… AA: OK. Last one for me. The Buffer Zone fence project, just letting the Commission know that’s the pretty much what I’ve been talking about the last couple meetings in my district report just scope on it a little bit here and there, I would like to ask the Commission if we could draft – have a motion to draft up letter to be not in support of fencing off that area – like Josh said it is – it’s already a 3 formed fence area – it’s basically a block, it’s a block minus one side being open – it’s boundary to the Natural Area Reserve Area, you know, the – pretty much a guesstimate of how much acreage is fenced off like what’s left. Ian, do you know kind of guesstimate like what the area coverage is there that’s not fenced – completely fenced. IC: It might be a thousand acres. AA: Yeah, so, so about 1,000 acres, it’s two based, it’s like one big square – you have these two… IC: Missing one side… AA: Yeah, missing the front side, the face side, um, the road kind of just – if there’s two roads looks like, actually looks like an “H” go off the bottom so one you walk all, you can walk straight to the 21