2024_09_17 Game Management Advisory Commission DRAFT Minutes

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BK: Two emails? \[Technical difficulties\] PB: Offered to assist with uploading. BL: Yeah, this is one of the bird waters I reported over two weeks ago and it’s still broken up on our one refuge – right past our ten – I’ve reported it several times and it’s still not working and there was a couple other pictures of some waterers… Oh, this is the picture – this is last year when they had all the money for the fire prevention – this is what they created – they created a fire hazard. They went in there with the mulching machine along the side of the roads and mulched all the trees and left that, so this is they’re - DLNR’s offer for fire break and fire prevention. You know this is by R 13 – you can see the picture, I mean, the roads are like that all over the place. ?: \[Unclear\] BL: Yeah, I took a buddy, he’s from Oregon – he said he couldn’t believe it. This is the picture of the water from – one of the few waters for the goats off mile marker 18 in Kona side – it’s in there – the two waters are overflowing – you can tell by this picture there hasn’t been water in this thing forever – I reported it a couple weeks ago and, you know, it’s the same thing – everyone’s crying about the goats being on the roads but they’re not supplying the water and that was one of the issues I wanted to bring up as a discussion maybe for the next meeting we can discuss with the County filing a lawsuit against the DLNR for not doing it – we had a law passed that they’re supposed to be providing quality habitat for these animals and not having water available is not providing quality habitat, much less getting into food sources and everything – here’s a picture of how much water was in the one of the tanks and the other tank is just that way – I mean, there’s water there – that’s just the thing’s broken and Lord knows how long it’s been broken and when I was up last week, I saw four erckels and this is one of ‘em caught in one of the cat traps along the road so, statistically we’re looking at 25% of the erckels I saw that day were dead in a cat trap. And I did see cat tracks further down the road in the middle of the road, so, we have no bird population – we’ve got waters that are in functional – full of putrid water and we’re killing our game birds and, like I said, there were plenty of birds in June and July and now there’s not any birds. Here’s a picture of one of the waterers filled up with just some damp, you know, the bees are able to get some moisture out of it, but this is the water, it’s just filled with dirt – it’s just mud – and there’s no way the birds are gonna get any water out of that. And this is another bird waterer – you can tell that it’s been quite a while since it’s seen water too, so maybe we can bring up the discussion and have the DLNR come in here and explain their water practices. Who’s responsible for these waters, how often are they checked, is there somebody we can let know cause this affects everybody and like I said, Mauna Kea is a flip into the desert – they’ve destroyed Mauna Kea, as far as the animals are concerned with no game birds, there’s no native birds, there’s no songbirds, there’s no 19