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have to get an EA, to remove the trees off the road, to put it back the way it was. So, you
<br /> know our government thing, getting back to our government, I've talking to Jill Tokuda,
<br /> personnel Eaton Withtaken (sp?) that's her environmental guy in Washington DC, he is
<br /> from Oregon. I was hoping we'd get somewhere, he's not biased with the ungulate. He
<br /> asked what we got over here, but I had an interesting conversation with him. We
<br /> discussed Mauna Kea mandate, we discussed the Palia, I sent him the copy of the latest
<br /> University of Hawaii, they said they wanted to do another study, I said there was no need
<br /> to, because the biologistic has already done one, correlating game animals' verses
<br /> wildfires and the ungulates and wild turkey and fire loads down????. You know we just
<br /> saved you $2,000,000.00 you don't have to do that.Talk to them, have their cake and eat
<br /> too, and just being indosified (sp?). I haven't heard anything back, I just sent another
<br /> letter, I put a bunch of GMAC people on the letterhead thinking that,asking for a response
<br /> by Tuesday, I actually called Jill's office yesterday, trying to get a proposal as to where she
<br /> stands with Mauna Kea management and gave up, just like that. The DLNR are not
<br /> returning my phone calls,just like the politician not bothering with returning phone calls.
<br /> I don't know where we are at with that. I gave them all the information, they have all the
<br /> scientific facts, and everything else that the mandate is. Not doing anything...??
<br /> Eradication -July 1st and 2 d, the grass, we got a wet year, so the grass is flourishing, but
<br /> once the rain stops, we know how the cycle goes, and that kind of stuff. And I think today,
<br /> yesterday was the last day for the sheep lottery. They were going to trap some sheep for
<br /> safety reasons. They won't allow them to have water, so they get on the road to drink
<br /> water, and they get hit, so they were going to do sixteen (16) people, so I'll get an update
<br /> when I find out, other than that, that's it.
<br /> LT: Just to confirm, that's a live taking? That's not dead...
<br /> BL: You have to have an enclosed stock trailer, and be able to take 20 sheep, to do with as
<br /> you want.
<br /> LT: All right
<br /> RD: Chair Robert Duerr District 1, question for Brian, how about the waters, what is the status
<br /> on water?
<br /> BL: The waters, I've seen they are looking good, but we got a lot of water this year, not like
<br /> last year, when we had drought conditions. The birds like to spend a lot of time in the
<br /> waters, clogging them up with dirt and everything. Not one tank we've repaired this year.
<br /> LT: Mahalo very much. And moving on to District 9
<br /> JA: Justin District 9—The only update I got, I'm meeting on the 24t", Councilman Hustace, up
<br /> in his office to discuss the shooting range and the ungulate issue up here in District 9,
<br /> pretty much all over the Island. The issue with them getting on the roads and obviously
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