2024_09_17 Game Management Advisory Commission DRAFT Minutes

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they’re put, they’re planning on fencing off this red area straight line here, ah, this is a NARS so and it’s completely fenced so I don’t see any opposition within this potential fenced area. BL: I wonder if they want to put a fence across the fenced area. AA: Maybe because they’re still doing eradication controls and that’s probably an easier way for them to, ah, to do some eradication, ah, but a NARs area is pretty much 100% eradication. IK: Which, um, agency is doing this? AA: Natural Area Reserve – NARs – that’s also through DLNR. So that’s one of DLNR’s branches. So, this is what actually brought me here today – is this area – Puu Makaala they potentially want to fence off this kipuka koa unit so I’ve actually hunted on this area – I hunt all in this area here – so this blue line is the Puu Makaala Natural Area Reserve, right, so, all fenced off. They also do pretty much 100% eradication, pretty much all NARs areas is fenced off and is 100% eradication. There still potentially might be game in these areas – but I cannot really answer questions, you have to go back and call NARs and ask them, but this kipuka koa unit – it is open as it is now – they’re talking about bull dozing this, purple line here, which, that is right next to the lava flow so they going bull doze along the lava flow here and install new fence and then they’re planning on the green line is existing in the forest. There’s no fence or bull dozed roads – they’re planning to bull doze a road through the forest and then this orange line here – that is an old, old, existing road from back in the military days – so they want to come here and they want to connect to this orange road that comes and, connect back into the Natural Area Reserve fence line here. So back in the days, back in the 80s I think – when Pig Hunters of Hawaii first started as a pretty strong group back then – they pretty much, came, they had discussions with DLNR and, they came up with the decisions that they was like - close this area off-seasonal, right, so in six months – from this upper area all the way to Tree Planting Road and you going up Stainback – everything on the right, on the right hand side is closed six months a year for the protection of our game species, which in here, in the forest is pigs along this lava corridor here – there’s actually sheep up here – I have seen them, I have heard them, I never collected any of them because that’s not my game of species to hunt, so, with them fencing off this area, this is like the migration route of the pigs come down either or so it will affect not just up here in this area but it will affect hunting up here and all the way down to the Tree Planting Road. And I’m coming here again to ask the Commission to write a letter to – in opposition of this fencing. I see their thing about, you know, protecting the koa forest here – but they don’t need to take all this land because the koa forest is mainly like right in the middle here and it also goes into the NARs area here, so they don’t need to take more than what they need to basically… IK: Do you know why? 10