2023_08_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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This is like where try we put out these resources. We need to do something probably on this research that makes it more accessible to folks, so you’re not staring at these weird H’s and lots of dots everywhere, but that’s your answer, we kind of look at the extend of grass lands across the state, the importance of grazing as a tool and just an example again using targeting grazing how it affects live and dead fuel. The big impact here this chart here showing how much fuel is out there. Like the quantity grass and to me the important thing you got to see grazing is that, in this dead area, to me in these graze areas, the mount of dead vegetation, dead dried up grass is significantly reduced and the benefit of that, that’s the stuff that is so sensitive during these dry period, dips in humidity and that’s the stuff that lights up and races across the landscape when we get these fires. So, I just turn it to you guys if you have questions, comments, criticism, whatever you want to share back I can stop sharing. So again that’s pacificfireexchange.org is where we post a lot of these resources. We are always open to ideas, and you know information needs. So, I’ll stop sharing. AA: District 2 – Abraham district 2 Thanks again for your information. Can you share that link to the zoom chat? SW: Corp Council – You can’t share on the zoom chat, but he can provide the link to Barbara. AA: District 2 – Cancel that Can you provide - and send the link to Barbara so we can do it as a communication to the commissioners and she can share the information to the commissioners? CT: Yeah, no problem. AA: Share that the brochure you just did, thanks. NR: Natalie District 7 - I have a question-With the sheep and the cattle you guys are using for the grazing do you have in the event of there is a fire, how many animals do you had, do you have the capability to get those animals out, in the event the fire comes, because if you have strong winds, like we had for example like we had on Maui they had 70 miles an hour winds, can you herd cattle that fast to get out to safety or do you just slew another natural resource? CT: No that’s it, That’s a great question. I think, it speaks to like, what we are talking about what people are doing. When I talk about what people are doing, so I’m talking like we got a couple farmers in Waianae who have these small herd of sheep that were working try like demonstrated, like look, here something we can do, we finally live up with a big, the larger herd on the North Shore here, trying to work with her showing her what we can do, but these are all small scale. There not---we are not doing anything at a scale, yeah that’s going to make a dent yet. It’s like here are the things, people actually are taking action, always like local scale things, and so in that context. Yeah like, if you’re just spot grazing your little paddock and you are surrounded by tons of unmanaged fuels 11