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come back to Dept. of Ag as it being an extension of the Kapapala Forest Reserve, mainly seven <br />thousand acre plus or minus couple acres strip across the top of the ranch. Yeah, at some point <br />(unclear) added to the Kapapala Ranch Reserve out there the forest reserve that was hunting <br />area (unclear) by those acreages. Not much said, it’s slowly moving along. There’s a lot of <br />contract work that needs to be done, more survey stuff needs to get finished.This is the ranch <br />that we’ve been actively in pursuit for a long time, and we want to make sure that it goes <br />smoothly and gets done. <br />One other point I wanted to talk about… we met with some hunters, Abraham, Antonio, Jason <br />couple other hunters a few weeks ago about prioritizing improving hunter access in Kulani in <br />Waikea Forest areas off the Steinback. <br />So, we met with them a couple of weeks ago prioritizing - hunt some routes for those that area. <br />Waiakea Timber Management Area is always a huge network so talking with the hunters to <br />prioritize, they felt it was necessary to open and maintain roads. We kind of have the same <br />roads that we maintain throughout the year by herbicide machines, hand clearing and stuff. <br />Met with them to prioritize which ones. Look for ways to bring in more machines to start to <br />open the roads including some of the side roads. <br />Tree planting (Uncle ?) (unclear) that access has had a lot of backing over the years (unclear)… <br />that group (unclear). <br />The last of the adaptive management rules for Hawaii Island – just to briefly recap this thing that <br />came out of our public input and board approval we can help adapt rules from ongoing <br />management strategies it is mainly to open up more opportunities for hunters. <br /> So, the first of the one that got implemented for Hawaii Island two years ago was increase of <br />hunting days in lower Puna, Nanawale forest (unclear) Malama (unclear) Keaau ohana forest <br />reserve. They were normally opened up for weekends and holidays, but we opened them up for <br />seven days a week and we increased the bag limits. A lot of that part being driven by increase of <br />pigs in peoples yards trying to do our little part faster with changing the rules to include a lot <br />more hunting opportunity but those rules are lasting because the initial when you go to approve <br />these rules their effective for two years with one year extensions upon board approval after <br />demonstrating providing data to demonstrate to the board that they should be renewed but we <br />don’t have a lot of data from those that the rule change data being and the data for that come <br />from hunter check in data and harvest data. There’s not a lot of hunters that check in on there. <br />We notice there’s a lot hunting activity, but there’s not a lot that check in. <br /> So that’s hard for us to use to rely on that data to demonstrate that there was an increase in pig <br />harvest, increase in hunting activity, so instead of trying to extend those rules we just try to get <br />it approve (unclear) so keeping the same rules but then instead of extending the hunt proves <br />that (unclear) that data to get those one year extension instead of just re-do it, that’s our bigger <br />(unclear) should be more effective instead of getting a one year extension we get two years. <br /> Water use is always a big topic on Mauna Kea. For those that don’t know water units on Mauna <br />Kea mainly is for providing supplemental water for game birds. Mauna Kea (unclear) in Kapapala <br />(unclear) forester, (unclear) Mauna Kea has most, (unclear) The Mauna Kea ones were built in <br />8 <br /> <br /> <br />