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JA Seeing how that was kept top secret anyway, I figure they're gonna hold back the <br /> numbers so that's it for me in District 9. <br /> TWC Thank you for the district reports. Moving along to presentation from Nick Agorastos <br /> and Ian Cole.Welcome. <br /> 5. PRESENTATION: <br /> a. Nick Agorastos, Natural Area Reserves Systems (NARS) and Ian Cole of the <br /> Division of Forestry and Wildlife(DOFAW)to talk about fencing at Pu'u Maka'ala <br /> Kipuka Koa Unit. <br /> NA Thank you.Sharing screen. Okay,so all the lines in white are current fences. Not all <br /> of them are ours. Some of them are.The Koa Kipuka unit,which we've met a few <br /> times with a couple of representatives and is basically represented by the red line <br /> that is in there. It doesn't totally encompass the Koa Kipuka, it goes below that but <br /> in trying to find a compromise between members of the hunting community we met <br /> with this is something that both sides could agree on. There have been different <br /> sizes and different shapes that have been proposed. But this is kind of the latest <br /> version. And a little bit of background for the other members.This is just below the <br /> current boundary of the natural reserve. It is in upper Waiakea forest reserve. <br /> Waiakea forest reserve is just shy of 53,000 acres.The area you see there is roughly <br /> 425 acres. It's generally a 2-hour walk to get to the close part,off Stainback. And <br /> that's if you're walking in without dogs If you're walking in with dogs, it's significantly <br /> longer and takes about 4-hours to get out to the 1942 lava flow which is the top of <br /> my screen. There are mouflon and mouflon hybrid sheep,that frequent the lava <br /> flow edge. They're rarely pressured mostly because this area is so remote.And I <br /> think that's part of the discussion that Ian is going to present on in trying to. <br /> Proposed different options for access to the area. So why is it important to the <br /> division. There are 4 endangered bird species that occupy this area. `Akiapoloa <br /> `Apapane,Alawi, 'Akikiki and then all of the remaining common native forest birds <br /> that are in that area. The proposed fence line will kind of skirt above the 5,000-foot <br /> elevation and that's important for us because of the mosquito. <br /> And the mosquito borne disease prevalence is much less above that elevation. But <br /> the primary thing that we're really looking at is protecting that last Koa Kipuka that's <br /> on the edge of that 1942 flow that's really the primary habitat for these birds and <br /> they do frequent it. Pretty regularly. <br /> The new fencing would be about somewhere between 2 to 2 and a half miles of <br /> additional fencing. There is funding currently for this.We have also done <br /> compliance for this, Chapter 343. In hopes that this will move forward. In our <br /> discussions,that we had with some of the hunters was that the pigs would be <br /> trapped out of this and then released into the sections below use a variety of <br /> 5 <br />