2024_06_18 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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June 18, 2024 - GMAC Minutes 8. ANNOUNCEMENTS: LT: Moving on to number 8. Announcements. So next month will be held on July 16, 2024, 9:00 am, 25 Aupuni Street, Puna conference room, Room 1501, Hilo, HI 96720. Yes sir? PD: Yeah, Pali, District – 2. I was listening to everything today. I’d like to say that I was part of a lawsuit against DLNR – fencing 14 miles of fence in Kau. And the thing they were doing was allowing us to hunt by putting a climb over fence and the hunters is fenced area. It’s like spearing fish in one aquarium. LT: Yeah. PD: And about a couple weeks you wipe it out so there’s no inter-breeding so the game don’t get good game. Ah, so we filed a lawsuit against DLNR and at the same time DLNR was using Ramik green – Ramik and green was a poison that they put for the rats but the hunters was finding the Ramik green in the stomachs of the pigs because it would make you thirsty and the pigs would go to wherever they could drink water which was down the river and they would die there. So, whatever was in that Ramik green would be going into the water system. So, we challenged all of that. It took us three years of a lawsuit, ah, the judge ruled in favor of the state but we stopped the project ‘cause the monies lapsed – so there’s no fencing there in Kau, so went to this problem about poisoning the pigs and like I said it’s supposed to be using Ramik green a hundred yards apart but they were putting it like 50 to 25 yards so they made sure that it got to the pigs and more than the rats and then when they did it for rats, they did the owls in and they did the ‘Ios in cause they eat the rats. LT: Just for clarification, this has to do with HogStop and using… PD: Well, it’s all about fencing. LT: Yeah, OK, fencing. PD: These are the problems with fencing not just that that helps the neighbors. LT: OK. PD: That’s what they did in Kau. So, I mean, I just wanted to make that point of my experience of all these years of fighting the state and protecting game, ah, at the same time I’d like to have this on record that I’m gonna resign from this position because it’s a waste of time. It’s always been, and corporate counsel doesn’t have the experience in Article 12, Section 7, which is our rights, our native rights to hunt and she doesn’t have that so they’ll liable be a look out for native rights to exist if you don’t have a corporate counsel that understands that so I hear a lot of complaints about your position and I’m resigning because of you, ah, in this thing, so, you told me to go tell about the Lomi but I want it on record that I’m gonna resign because of your presence and your attitude toward this Commission. SW: Deputy Corporation Counsel, Sylvia Wan. Just because you made some statements about my position I’ll let you know that my position is outlined within the Charter, my role as I provide it 24