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LT: Well,thank you very much, Leomana District 3; My only discussion on this idea is someone,
<br /> there's a lot of firearms incidents lately, and that's why I've been pushing with Micah to see if
<br /> we can get some of our funding to support updating our firearms knowledge,the laws, and
<br /> our training. Because someone was shot at the facility,yeah, kid, and he died.So, kind of
<br /> with the letter, I'm kind of thinking we should push out firearm safety awareness and some
<br /> sort of, not just, hey,we want a letter,to buy something because there's a gun range, but,
<br /> you know,we can have some community awareness. I'm... there's just a lot of shooting
<br /> going on, and even yesterday,there's a big one, so I'm like, oh, I got to try and, see if we can
<br /> get the commission to kind of lead Hawaii County in handling these kind of situations with
<br /> guns, because we are the people who have the most guns.Anyway,that was just my,
<br /> Mana'o.Thank you for the update.
<br /> ??: Almost got the line.Yeah,the truth.Yeah.That's sad,that's a couple years ago,yeah.
<br /> LT: Okay, moving forward to our next agenda item,we've been waiting for these updates all
<br /> year. I'm super excited to get presentations, especially from the people who got all the
<br /> information. So,our next agenda item is Agenda item number 5, Presentations.5A,Joshua
<br /> Pang Ching,Wildlife Biologist, Game Section, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural
<br /> Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife,will provide an update on game birds on Hawaii
<br /> Island. Sir,thank you for joining us. And...just checking if you hear us.
<br /> 5. PRESENTATION:
<br /> a. Joshua Pang-Ching,Wildlife Biologist, Game Section, Hawai'i Department of
<br /> Land Natural resources Division of Forestry and Wildlife will provide an
<br /> update on game birds on Hawai'i Island.
<br /> JC: Josh Pang-Ching:Sorry I wasn't able tojoin in person. I had some,field plans today,that I
<br /> couldn't get out of, so...Yeah, Robert,we talked about kind of just providing an update on
<br /> 2025-2026, Gamebird season so far has been going from, what we've been experiencing,
<br /> what we've been talking to guys in the field, numbers we've been seeing, results,you know,
<br /> all that good stuff, I mostly have, some stuff to report back from Mauna Kea, parts of Mauna
<br /> Kea,and then Kapapala, so... :Yeah, Kapapala, Cooperative Game Management Area, Unit
<br /> J, has been really good.You know,we've... that's where our East Hawaii program has
<br /> focused, a lot of our game bird release efforts,from the chucker's and pheasants that our
<br /> program rears and releases, our... a lot of our efforts are focused out there.We've been
<br /> seeing good results,you know, birds have been being harvested by hunters on release birds,
<br /> and we've also been seeing some promising results of retention of birds. Over the years,
<br /> there's been a handful of birds that have come out, a handful of roosters, ringneck roosters,
<br /> that have come out,this season that were released. Two years ago. So, it's promising,
<br /> they've been surviving. Hunters have been seeing a lot of the hens that we've released, and
<br /> that's really the valuable one that we want to see survive, is the hens, because they'll go into
<br /> spring to reproduce.And on that note,we had two birds so far,two confirmed birds so far
<br /> that were wild, born pheasants that came out of Kapapala. So, any pheasants that have
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