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JPC: Moving forward, we want to check them monthly, especially during the green season, and
<br />outside that, every once a quarter. With my new experience with building these and just kind of
<br />monitoring them, especially the ones that I've been building and have added level of connection
<br />between because I built them. But I'm also surprised at how little water use, like gets not gets
<br />used, but, like, it just drives out. How much water gets wasted anyway? How slow the water.
<br />We're checking on monthly in the beginning, because watching them fill up, you know, these
<br />new tanks, you have to be built up. We want to check in February, March, maybe like March
<br />going into the summer, check out monthly. A lot of them are in this core area in Mauna Kea.
<br />And there's several here and there quarterly, outside of the breeding season, which is spring
<br />into the fall, to make sure that there is one supplement of water from when you know, the ends
<br />are the females are starting mass, the chase of brown and getting over that threshold, you
<br />know, I think monthly.
<br />LT: Thank you. Leomana District 3. I just got one question to end it out. Is Hawaii and Maui just
<br />starting their mosquito release? I just wanted to check if we had anything like that in the
<br />pipeline for either mosquito using (unclear) or else maybe CRV. I was just listening to meetings
<br />yesterday where the mosquito on the (unclear) via was brought up, having to do with the
<br />release and then kind of bio control for CMP.
<br />JPC: I can't speak too much about the CRB, as far as bio control with CRB, whole department banks
<br />looking into that. But with little I know about the (unclear) stuff. Yeah, Kauai, so it's been in the
<br />newspaper. Kauai is starting to release the battle mosquitos on Kauai and Maui. So, in a rough
<br />order, it's Kauai Maui and Hawaii on the table for that same approach after Maui.
<br />LT: Okay, thank you. And then last one, who can I call? Who can we all call to get the latest update
<br />on Bird counts having to do with the native birds because I asked, I know they had a native bird
<br />count last month with the Hawaii RAM birds organization. I don't know what their names are.
<br />The big island group last month, it did their whole island. Very tough for Palila and the other
<br />one. So, I was checking if you know the numbers to that.
<br />JPC: I don't know the numbers, but right now they're in the heart of what's called our count season.
<br />So, I think this weekend, ah Kulani last week previously, was probably on surveys. And then
<br />there's various other places on the island that have these annual bird surveys. And then there's
<br />some leases that get surveyed every five years, some are every 10 years. There's a biologist
<br />within our office. My counterpart is Liana. She deals with forest bird stuff.
<br />LT: Can you guys just speak up they cannot hear…
<br />TWC: Taysen Wong Chong district two. One more question on a Kapapala. During a transfer area in
<br />the future where Department of Ag could take, probably take over, I guess, or whatever. How
<br />does that leave? Is it a good thing or a bad thing with hunting situation? Because, you know how
<br />Department of Ag needs to actually take and not give back accountability? Whats the
<br />standpoint…
<br />JPC: Overall, I don't know how, like a Department of Ag standpoint, (unclear) approach on hunting
<br />the Kapapala specific. I mean, we wrote what the documents are, got approved to allow the
<br />process to move forward. We made sure to write into it that hunting, mainly at the forefront
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