2025-09-16 GMAC Minutes Final Draft

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drop the caucus below, we've had a lot of pigs come in and scavenge any of the animals that get caught by those traps, as well as mongoose and other things. Oh yeah, they also catch the mongoose so it kind of works both ways. That's the impact that predator control has had over the last couple of years. Like I said, we're really trying to increase that effort and really maximize targeting the area where Palila are currently found, to try to relieve them, and you can see Palila do spend time on the ground, so even the adult birds can be at risk from cats and other predators. And one of the other things that has been pretty exciting is that has been put on the ground too, is the automatic recording units, or ARU's so, basically what we have done working with Fish and Wildlife and a NOTE: In Hawaii, an Autonomous Recording Unit(ARU) is a self-contained device used for bioacoustics monitoring to record sounds in marine and terrestrial environments. Researchers use them to study and protect wildlife by recording animal vocalizations, tracking populations, and documenting environmental sounds over extended periods. couple of other partners, is place this grid of song meters, which is basically these little devices records bird song and just sound in general across the entire Palila range. So, across these yellow detections, are where the Palila have been heard, since that grid was deployed. So, we're coming up.... Once we hit November, the grid has been deployed for an entire year, and so, it will give us a really good...these recorders record on ten (10) minute intervals, from sunrise to eleven am - (11:00) am. It gives us a much better in dept view of where...of what habitat Palila are using, where they are and that is much, much better than of what we can get from just our annual surveys. So, this will hopefully give us a much better idea of where Pallia's are concentrating and the total area that the Palila are using. Right now, there are a hundred and thirty-four(134) recording units deployed and we service these and replace SD cards every quarter when we do those quarterly Palila surveys. And the nice thing is that we are able to use quarter data like this to do population estimates, so this might be able to give us a real population estimate like every month or every quarter at the very least. Once we really get this process automated and work efficiently. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done to figure those out exactly, fortunately what we are going able to do is correlate those quarterly surveys to the times, when these quarters are out...so we can get a really good comparison between the two (2) methods and hopefully figure out a lot more information about how Palila are using the landscape and when. So, this is getting into our future direction, but we're really hoping to get up there, hopefully in the next few years the cat-proof fence. Now we are targeting a four hundred (400) acre fence and that would be for the folks who are familiar with the area off of R-12 just to try and create one, at least one area where there's going to be zero (0) cats predation on Palila and it's really targeting the area that we found, the most nest in the last few years as well as also going around that drought refugia and Palila hotspot. So, it's nice that we can find using this different methodology, we able to find like this most 14