2023_08_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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once we have these fires. Then we have these non-native plants that goats won’t even eat moving in and taking over as an example, it’s the, I call them tobacco trees they are part of the tobacco plant family from south America, they are just taking over Pu’uwa’awa’a where we had the fire five years ago destroyed massive amounts of Ohia forest and now we got this, we just got to look in…. SW: Is there a question? BL: Humm? SW: Is there a question? BL: No, I’m just asking are we looking into these things? SW: Okay.. BL: We talk about this, and we got no … NR: Natalie District…. BL: We complain about the animals, but we are not providing quality habitat in these scrub areas. NR: Natalie District 7 BL: That’s fountain grass ----- Out of me SW: I’m sorry I think we need to have the presenter have a chance to response. CT: Just really quick, that spot, many people are pointing out that spot in particular, where we are getting native plants recovery, I think it is also starting to change people’s understanding, and we’re asking questions, why is it coming out like that? Also, the understanding of the compatibility potential between these wild animals that are in there, and what – how are they are contributing as well as the fire itself, like you know, how did it burn in that spot in particularly to suddenly get this to this big flush of native shrub. I know at least folks, I’ve been talking to some folks at Division of Forestry and Wildlife, very, very interested in what’s going on there and is there something that can be replicated. AA: Go ahead Natalie. NR: Natalei District 7 - When a response to a control burn, but we were talking about that, I believe we were talking about that a month or a month before that, the reason why we 14