2023_08_15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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District 7 Natalie Reynolds – Aye District 8 Courtney Okamura – Aye District 9 Justin Ackerman – Aye AA: All in favor, 7 ayes, no nays, one absent, motion carries. 6. PRESENTATION: a. Clay Trauernicht, Assistant Specialist, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management to present: “Wild Ungulates seem to like it green: Unmanaged vs Managed Grazing in Reducing Fire Risk.” AA: We got Clay I’m sorry I don’t want to butcher your last name. He is the Assistant Specialist, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management to present “Wild Ungulates seen to like it green Unmanaged Vs Managed Grazing in Reducing Fire Risk. Last month we had Kanalu Sproat, talking about our wild ungulate and fires, still going along the same summer time fire, we been having. We still had our big fire out in Kohala district and big fires out in Maui. Clay, you would like to take over, thank you and welcome. CT: Clay Trauernich UH Manoa based on Oahu yeah it has been busy week, to say the least and pretty devastating I haven’t really had time to be honest to do anything formal presentation wise. We would like to take over. I don’t have anything formal presentation wise but I just thought I would show you some of the work we have been doing on grazing and is includes what was I was asked really focused project Work by a student I help do a project on the Big Island This is really the first time we looked at kind of fenced and unfenced areas where you had ungulates excluded areas you still had seen probably mostly Feral goats maybe some sheep this would have been in and around Puuwaawaa and that surrounding landscape around there. You know I think this a big question to comes up a lot when we do these community workshop and often we are doing field trips after fires talking about how be better prepare the kind of things we should be doing on the landscape and I know there is lots of controversy to when it comes to grazing you know folks that really sort of ardently supportive of native Eco- system conservation tend to wince when I bring up grazing as a tool and they tend to be, oh, I’ve had People walk out of meeting on this I think clear I need to make it clear that there is definitely eco system that are not compatible with and there is lot of evidence to show some of these areas that we want to protect that we want to needs to be protected from Ungulate impacts with that being said when we start looking at fire and the scale of fire and scale and really the scale of the landscape which I my sense is that hunters in particular have a very good sense because of just where you’re going across the landscape right, to do what you doing. I’m not hunter by the way, I don’t, yeah, did not do--- I grew up in Long Island in the suburbs, there wasn’t a lot of opportunity lots of deer some place, to go back I think when you start looking at the scale, those areas that we are protecting are pretty small at the end of the day they are 7