2024-11-19 GMAC Meeting Minutes DRAFT

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gonna loosen up these game laws and let me shoot the pig cause I don’t have a problem in my yard cause my neighbors know if they hear a loud bang in the morning it’s me putting a pig down and I don’t have a problem in four months, like you said they’re intelligent animals and they learn to stay away from people and they know who has the Bernie Sanders sign up in their yard, and who does it real quick, so… Like I said, you know, I, I see these things – I’m an avid bird hunter and we’re hunting an area and, you know, thank God we’ve got pigs cause it’s the only thing that’s eating the grass and making trails for our game birds cause we’ve got this kill all the ungulates on sight in Hawaii kind of thing and we’ve got these invasive grasses that are taking over and you know the pigs – I’ve seen it where they’ve rooted up in – we’ve got native plants growing under the grasses where they’ve got the grasses rooted up where these other things can get in there so, like I said, it’s how you want to paint the animal and granted, I know pigs can be devastating but my whole thing is management and we can’t seem to get that in Hawaii – it’s either – you can’t shoot ‘em, you can’t do anything and we’ve got axis deer problems like on Maui where we want to eradicate 100%, I mean, our group – we want management – we don’t want the pigs overrunning and killing everything with brucellosis but we want to be able to go out and hunt and feed our families and everything and I spent a lot of time in Texas and I still yet have not seen a sign of a wild pig yet. JT: OK. Well next time you’re in Texas, let me know, I’ll solve that problem for you, um… BL: I was just there for a week for a wedding and, a white-tailed deer \[unclear\] shooing them out of the garden cause they’re trying to eat the flowers for the wedding… JT: Well, and I’ll tell you too, we fight other things like in, in, in, on various islands you’ve got guinea grass that was brought in at different times – we have it as well and we’ve also got Nilgai antelope from India – a 600 pound antelope that evolved to eat that stuff and we’ve got areas where native ungulates are very rare now but the Nilgai are running wild, so it’s, yeah, it’s a goofy place in Texas, so if there’s an animal you want to see, just ask us when you’re here, we can probably put you on it. We had a guy come a long time ago and he goes, I think we drove by a ranch – I thought I saw a giraffe? Yeah, you probably did. There’s everything here, it’s a strange place. BL: Zebras in California \[unclear\] castle, I’ve seen those. ?: \[Unclear\] wart hogs… JT: Yeah, the wart hogs – we didn’t even know we had them – we had a former governor that brought them in and then when they finally got out – people started asking questions about them and oh, yeah, so and so on his ranch – he’s got them, so… LT: All right, sir, thank you very much. I got one last question. 22