2023_08_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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AG: Austin Griffey District 6- but in that area that they had nutrition deficiency there was no animals in, right? CT: That’s a good question --- I can’t remember if that 2010, I don’t know if there was control or not. I don’t know, I can’t speak to that. 2010 it was just kind of Hilo side of the State Park and like burnt up the mountain. This was before any – I think one of the big fences, maybe Palila habitat fence that were there. I don’t know, what the status was of the animals that were there. AA: Stanley again, you’re going to ask questions, you got questions to ask? You have to put it in the chat and if you have comments, you have 3 minutes, you can go now. SM: Stanley – Yes. CT: I apologize to you guys; I have to run across campus I have a meeting at 10. So, I have to leave in a few minutes here. SM: Hello Stanley Mendez – I have two questions, first, I hunt most…. AA: Stanley, if you have questions, you can put it on the Chat. SM: If I have a statement, I can just say it. AA: If you have a statement just say it. SM: No question. I hunt primarily Pu’uanaulu and Pu’uwa’awa’a and all the fences up like the bird sanctuary and the fencing a lot more Pu’uwa’awa’a, you can see the difference in those areas where the grasses and invasive have taken over in those fenced area where no animals is in. So that’s one opinion. The next is If you have places where the animals can go and get their water, you keep them those animals in the areas where you want to have the grass is eaten. My observation is where you have watering units and those units have been turned off or something is wrong with it, the animals will go after the trees in those areas and eating the bark. Where there is ample water they leave the plants alone and eat just grasses. Goats and Sheep because there is no water, they basically go for the young fountain grass and they keep on eating those young fountain grass, so that’s my observation. Thank you. CT: I just responded, I think you’re exactly right when you have, and if there’s opportunity and this the knowledge is with you folks. About how… If you going to manage game. There is no--- The idea like, I don’t know. I don’t know if any one said this, I’ve heard people say like, we’re going to get rid, eradicate, to me it’s not possible, the like these + landscape is so huge they don’t need to be eradicate, because again, these areas, we are trying like…. keep them out, yeah these areas are pretty small…relatively speaking, but, yeah. There are ways you can direct, I don’t know how this affect hunting, like, in the sense of like how the quality of hunting, but you… There are ways you can manipulate 16