2024_09_17 Game Management Advisory Commission DRAFT Minutes

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AA: I don’t write, I have it recorded. Basically, there’s no real access to the forest reserve in those areas, I mean, there’s – we’ve had this discussion before – there’s quite an access right above the transfer station which is the 25-mile marker which it goes in maybe 25 \[unclear\] yard. DOFAW has gone in and did some gravel, they have gone in and taken out some of the grass that was in there so that is one way to access the forest reserve. Below the transfer station there’s another hunting trail over there that people that can only park like one vehicle at a time and then you can access the forest there. Other than that it’s right next to the transfer station – the State owns the property right around the transfer station and back in the day you could traverse in and out right next to the transfer station and there was a road that drove \[unclear\] maybe 200 yards back \[unclear\] I really not sure exactly what the distance is, but since the County upgraded that transfer station it just kept on blocking and they blame vandalism to the facility. the last time they moved the boulders to the back. They were still continuing on with vandalism to the facility but in my opinion it doesn’t matter if the boulders in the front or the back – they still getting vandalism – they still getting theft over there at the station so why penalize… LT: The hunters… AA: …. forest users. LT: Gatherers… AA: Because guarantee get other people that would like to use that as customary practices, right. So that was number two. Number 3 is to the Chair as well. This is actually in District – 4, Commissioner Brian’s district. There’s this bunch of land between Makuu Paradise Park and Hawaiian Beaches – it’s unencumbered state land – with the state taking away a lot of our hunting areas and if this is unencumbered land I’m asking the Commission – you need to write some kind of advisory letter or investigate these properties and see if we can turn that into a GMA because there’s – in my opinion – and, you know, traversing through these properties – there’s no real invasive, endangered animals nor is it any endangered plants – is only invasive grasses and invasive trees. So, the first parcel and you guys will get it later on when we document it. The first parcel is 1, 882.44 acres, right, and all these acres they have different – four different tax map key numbers – but I think they are all one big parcel even though they are individual. So, the first one is 1-5-01:000 – that is 1,882.44 acres. The next parcel is 1-5-01:003 – this one is 3, 823 acres. The next parcel is 1-5-009:009 – this one is 780 acres. The last parcel is 1-5-009:010 and this is 639.94 acres. That’s a lot of potential hunting land in these areas and maybe you guys can investigate it as well – and I’ll do my own investigation as well but as the Commission you guys can do your guys own – maybe create a PIG – investigate it and maybe potentially – maybe the County can actually purchase this land – we had a discussion in \[unclear\] and I think Robert Duerr might have been there, I not sure, when one of the potential mayor candidates – then 5