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TWC: OK, Taysen Wong from District—2, 1 want to second on that—that actually would be <br /> something good to work on with DLNR cause they do have the app and up and running - <br /> if you guys could co-exist with them to where like we do see feral as a hunter gatherers, <br /> myself, we do see feral animals such as the cats, right, in the mountains, lot of <br /> designated areas that we go hunting so if something like that was to be implemented <br /> into the apps that could co-exist with DLNR that would be very helpful because I have <br /> taken a lot of pictures myself and it's become the question mark to where, who do I <br /> send this to? Purchase that app I think would be a good thing it will be like an automatic <br /> enter database, right, the moment... <br /> LL: Awesome...yeah, that's exactly the vision so I [unclear] information is in the back of this <br /> presentation—if that could get sent around and anyone of this group who has <br /> information on locations before we get kind of the tracking software set-up, I'd love to <br /> know that so we can kind of put it in the priority of things that we're gonna look at. <br /> BL: Brian, District—4, How do you get away with the state allowing you to have these <br /> animals cause I know we've lost thousands of acres on Mauna Kea cause there was a <br /> video of a cat getting an endangered bird and we were talking about these feral cats— <br /> even if they're well fed they're gonna be taking down Nene chicks and everything else <br /> like that and we're constantly dealing with the state non-native invasive blah, blah, blah, <br /> losing everything and it just seems kinda a little hypocritical. I appreciate what you're <br /> doing, I have cats and blah, blah, blah, but, there's a time and a place for everything and <br /> I don't understand how the state allows that but we're going through this native only <br /> species things that we've got to eradicate everything else— [unclear] — I'm just a <br /> [unclear] being killed—fences going up, thousands of traps per cats on Mauna Kea and <br /> it's ineffective at the last week I saw three different sets of cat traps down the roads <br /> hunting these areas, and we're spending fortunes trying to kill these cats and everything <br /> and then, there's a time and place for everything. I don't know why the state and <br /> County even allows these animals on the streets and catering to them —that's just my <br /> personal... <br /> LL: Yeah, I understand what you're saying, I do think it's worth noting that trap and kill has <br /> just never been effective—you can't get broad public support for it and there are a lot <br /> of unintended consequences that come from it and it becomes very, very costly, I mean, <br /> there are studies that have been done in this book—in island environments and <br /> mainland environments and the only proven way to have just well manage your cat <br /> situation and reduce the population over time is well managed T& R programs. I <br /> attended a presentation last night about what they're doing on Oahu, and they shared a <br /> lot of successes from that on the stats of bringing down the number of colonies and a <br /> cost for intervention. It was very, very promising. Now in terms of what the state will <br /> and won't allow on their land, I think that still remains in question. I'd love to meet with <br /> some of those individuals—also if there's anyone from DLNR on this call we would love <br /> to work with you and collaborate, so, please take a look at our contact information and <br /> reach out. <br /> 18 <br />