2025-09-16 GMAC Minutes Final Draft

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LT: Now we can... BM: Perfect...and is it showing you the presentation and not the notes? LT: Okay, yep, we got it. BM: Okay, perfect...thank you for that introduction Leomana. My name is Brett Nainoa Mossman, and I just moved from the Natural Area Reserve system to the Statewide Forestry Recovery coordinator, but I'm still with the department of forestry and wildlife and I'm coming to you guys from Oahu today, but I'm still based primarily on Hawaii Island. Just a little background about myself, so I was born in Utah, and I grew up hunting and fishing, my family is from couple different islands, but Maui, Oahu and Kauai, are the three (3) where I have ancestry. I moved to Hilo, Panaewa in 2017 for grad school and I currently live in Waimea with my uncle Mike and aunty Bina, and the first native bird I worked on worked on was Palila in 2016. Just a couple of pictures of me as a little kid with some He'e and the first deer that I shot was in High School, here's me more recently I'iwi matching my shirt. So just a little bit of background on the Palila, the Palila is a large Hawaiian honey creeper, their one of largest honey creeper 30 to 40 grams in the wild. They are endemic to the Hawaiian Island. And as you know they have a bright yellow head, and breasts with a gray back, wings, and sides, and they have a black bill and black legs, or black grayish bill and legs. The last finch bill species in the main Hawaiian Islands. We used to have a wide diversity of species of finches here, up to 55 species, and Palila is the last one that has this finch-like bill for eating seeds and fruits. And they feed almost exclusively on Mamane. Over ninety (90%) percent of their diet comes from Mamane, mostly it's the green pod and they also feed on leaf, tips, flowers and all different parts of the plant. They also feed on things like na'e na'e and na'io, but by enlarging mostly on Mamane, which is the most important plant for their diet. The habitat for Palila is mostly found, historically mostly found in three (3) areas, one is called the dry mixed Mamane naia woodland, that's the dominate habitat on Mauna Kea. They are also found in arid Sub-Alpine Mamane Forest and mix mesic dry forest. NOTE:A mesic dry forest describes an ecological community with moderate moisture(mesic)and a significant drought component, often found in tropical and subtropical regions, where trees are adapted to shed leaves to conserve water during dry periods.Another interpretation could be a "dry-mesic"forest, which refers to a forest type that thrives on drier-than-average sites with moderate soil moisture, not fully dry or fully wet As you look at this map, it's basically all the orange area is potential Palila habitat, like the same rainfall pattern that they're typically found. And pretty much they are found around Mauna Kea, and in this orange area and some of the brown area, and some of the light green area, on the leeward side of the Island historically. And here is a betterview of that 8