2023_08_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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we did have a little discussion about drinking water units away from roads, kind of hopefully entice animals to go there. BL: Curiosity is there any statistics on how many goats gets hit? Those are rarely, in my personal opinion, I rarely see goats they seem to be more - little bit more intelligent than mouflon sheep and the pigs are the ones that create the most traffic along side of the road. Is there any statistics? KS: I don’t know, but I do know that the dept. of transportation does respond to road kills and remove those carcasses from the roadside. They are putting together those numbers for us, I just haven’t seen them yet. I know that that exists but, I don’t have it yet. BL: If the department of transportation is doing that is there some way you can find out where these high impact areas are? Maybe you guys do limited fencing along these high impact corridors? Instead of fencing everything out. KS: Yeah, that’s another option for sure, and something we can look into as I present the information to us. For us we are not trying to fence everything. We are trying kind of like those are the areas that are high crossing areas. And there are also areas that our agency has responsibility for. It’s easy for us to be able to do the work there. But yeah, I know that is a suggestion that we can look in, that is the location where most of the strikes are and kind of focus there. Good questions and that is our intentions. AA: Stanley again comments 3 minutes, go ahead. SW: I asked him to unmute. AA: Stanley, go ahead. SM: Okay, my opinion if we put more pressure in our public lands, we are going push the animals more into private lands. I think the way to go is to try and get the private landowners to give permission for hunters and DLNR would oversee this. As far as animals on the highway you have it from the old saddle road to the new saddle road, lots of goats and pigs there. As far as from the new saddle road to Kona, you’ll see maybe one nanny with couple kids here and there, some mules on the road. You don’t see, except for the area around Pu’ulani ranch you don’t see too much in the hunt area you don’t see too much bids animals. You can tell from see the mess on the highway. I don’t think there’s problem with the animals in the public area. That’s my opinion. AA: Thanks Stanley. So that was a good kind of questions. Kanalu what is the, how many animals are you guys getting coming onto the road in the public hunting areas verse the private areas? Where is the actual problem, is it more State land or is it more private? KS: You know good question. So, we have done a couple of roadside surveys. That something that I started to implement just to try recordings exactly what you’re saying. I didn’t - I haven’t quantified it yet, but I can say from what we are seeing where most of the areas we see goats alongside the road. Kind of main hot spots are going to be Keamoku by the old saddle road junction with highway 190 and that corner down there 22