2023_08_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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option to keep the animals off the highways and this is what it would cost. Another thing we’re suggesting is that the rumble strips if they create new roads and if they update rumble strips, not to have rumble strips that are depressions, because that catches water and that attracts animals to the side of the road like that. We’ve also discussed, kind of presenting a way to allow the department of transportation, I don’t know allow but, if they can keep kind of a buffer of no vegetation between the shoulder of the highway, probably at least 20 to 30 feet away, again to keep the animals from encroaching that space. Investigate potential to allow public hunters into some of those private lands. Something we need to discuss with the landowners. Continue discussing with PTA to increase their hunting opportunities which we are doing something you guys know we are doing and just something be part of the report we distribute a list of hunters and trappers. We give to the public when they ask for assistance. We are also looking at doing control grazing along kind of in the same corridor where we are looking putting up fencing, it’s almost the exactly like the first presentation was about, keep the vegetation down. So, we are already looking, I’ve already found out what that cost might be. It might be cost prohibitive, and but, what, one more thing. Somebody suggested that a comprehensive law restricting the feeding of feral animals as a possible solution. I don’t think we have anything that we have that strictly prohibit that. Another thing that was suggesting was to look at the potentially, so if we do fence the highways as we suggest or at least some of the highways providing some of kind of a crossing corridors somehow, just do research on that what it would cost and what that would it look like. That’s all I’m looking at my outline over here. Thats the update I have. AA: Thanks Kanalu, any questions or comment from the commissioners? BL: Brian Ley from District 4, Thanks Kanalu its great as always good to see you again, Haven’t seen you awhile. So, there was no discussion about putting water units or a pristine habitat to keep the animals off the road? I mean we are supposed to have quality habitat. When we have quality habitat they’re not going to be wondering to the road if they got water and good food somewhere else, but that was never discussed, you’re going to go straight to fencing and more shooting of the animals? KS: That’s an interesting, short answers, we didn’t discuss that. It’s really interesting because the road themselves act kind of like a big catchment and the water you know when there’s rain falls on the road and runs to the side and it creates, there is a lot young growth more palatable species for grazing for the animals. That attracts the animals into that space because hunters are not allowed to hunt within a certain distance from the road and it also creates kind of a safe space for those animals. So no, we did not talk about creating better habitat elsewhere. I guess we did have a little about water units away from highways. I guess that is in one form or another habitat. But yeah, road corridors themselves really presents they kind a create a safe space with more palatable forage species for them. Most of our discussion was how to remove that forage from the space and any water from those spaces and how to keep them away from the roads. But, yes 21