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ACTION ITEM: <br /> <br />LT: Leomana, District – 3, I’d like to make a motion to oppose the fencing – the Piha Forest <br />Reserve Area – to keep – ask it open for wildlife to flourish. <br /> <br />BL: Brian, District – 4. I second that motion. <br /> <br />AA: Discussion, for discussion. Any discussion coming from the Commissioners? <br /> <br />LT: I’d just like to keep that place open for the hunters on that side, I don’t usually hunt that <br />side unless I’m invited by one of the local community members and for me – so the better <br />I can keep everyone’s hunting areas the safer my kids will be \[unclear\]. <br /> <br />AA: Basically, the same thing. I support, you know, the opposition of this letter, like I said, I’m <br />not sure what the number is nowadays but I know it was a very huntable area back in the <br />day for guys that actually used rifles, high-powered rifles, they’re losing a lot of their <br />hunting areas like they say “the Slice” after the realignment of Saddle Road – now they <br />have a slice – so they’re taking away that hunting area from rifle hunters and they’re <br />turning it into an archery area so the rifle hunters are getting less and less areas to <br />actually go out and gather, right, so, we’re just trying our best as the powers that we have <br />to in an advisory standard to keep fighting for everybody, not just one side. <br /> <br />SW: OK. So, far what I have is there’s a motion on the floor for GMAC to draft an opposition <br />letter regarding fencing within the Piha Forest Reserve. Right now the reasons for that <br />letter will be to keep open – to keep the area open for hunting specifically rifle hunters <br />are losing valuable hunting areas and this would be one of them. <br /> <br />AA: So, Justin Ackerman can have more hunting areas to go to. <br /> <br />LT: Or at least one. <br /> <br />AA: And Leomana because he’s got his new rifle too. <br /> <br />LT: E, I got all Hawaiian Homelands. <br /> <br />SW: Is there any reason that it’s currently \[unclear\] that GMAC wants to address as to why the <br />needs of the rifle hunters outweigh the current reasons for them putting up a fence? <br /> <br />AA: The reasoning behind that fencing is for environmental reasons, right, pretty much what <br />Jake brought up so we going encounter the same reasoning why all these areas is being <br />fenced. They say soil… <br /> <br />SW: Soil erosion? <br /> <br />AA: Soil erosions, they say \[unclear\], they say all that. <br /> <br />SW: So how would allowing the rifle hunters back in help with the environmental issues? <br /> <br />30 <br /> <br /> <br />