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JA: The Puako boat ramp is still closed due to that large west swell they’ve been unable to repair it and the continued large west swells are not helping matters at all. And the public service announcement that went out through all the guns stores has helped. The shooting range up on mile marker 16 has been cleaned up so kudo’s to all. It looks good, so, well done, and that is it. LT: Yessah, Alright, thank you Sir. I had a meeting with the mayor and his team on Monday and I guess the last couple of months, talking about cleaning up the range, policing your brass and picking everything up. They got the word. They’re willing to even help us sometimes. I was even talking to Micah about sending a dump truck up there maybe once every six months. Because they know that some people dump their washing machines and bring their fridge, you know, they can hide behind bunkers and play around shoot like that so, thank you very much. I know you talked a lot about that. Moving forward with the next agenda item. You know our most exciting part of the day, agenda item number 5, presentations. We have our expert wildlife biologist Joshua Pang-Ching. Thank you for showing up. One of the things we’ve talked about every single meeting is having an expert come in to answer our general questions about the feeders about the tide about how we can help and stuff like that so thank you for coming in today. 5. PRESENATIONS: a. Joshua Pang-Ching, Wildlife Biologist, Game Section Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife presenting and discussing:  Review of 2024-2025 general game bird season at Kapāpala Ranch CGMA  Game bird water units, updates  Game bird rearing and release program updates  Discussion with hunters about improving hunter access in the Kūlani/Waiākea/Puʻu Makaʻala areas  Lapse of adaptive management rules for Hawaii Island  Kapāpala ranch transfer update  2025 spring bearded turkey season JPC: Aloha everyone. For those that don’t know, my name is Joshua Pang-Ching. I’m a wildlife biologist with DLNR division of Forestry and Wildlife based out of Hilo. My kuleana is with the Game section programs. The ranch is under our East Hawaii jurisdiction and that’s one of our main hunting areas for our game birds. Circulated statistics report. A dramatic increase from 320 hunters to 458. Where it states number of hunts, it means number of individual license hunters that came out, whether they are by themselves or in a group. The reason for the increase is due to more work being done mainly game bird releases such as pheasants and chuckers. We feel this created some buzz, we saw a lot of new names coming out to hunt that we normally don’t see. Kapapala is real unique, there are hunters that only hunt at Kapapala. Some guys from Volcano shoot, even guys that usually hunt Mauna Kea come out to Kapapala. 5