2013-04-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes, April 15, 2013 Page 16 Here are our priorities where does it map with yours. I think it’s incredibly important we have an understanding what their list of priorities are vs. ours and how we make movement against those. Chair Sylvester : Okay, will do. C. Bailey : In adding to this future discussion at next meeting, I really don’t want to waste time discussing issues frugal stuff. This issue against gorse, it is a Federal Mandate. When we talking about using ungulates on Mauna Kea there’s a Federal Mandate saying no ungulates. So this is kinda frugal. If we want to discuss at next meeting fine. As far as sitting down with the new manager Lisa Hadway, pretty much all of us know their position maybe I’m wrong and we know the hunters and fishers position. Whether or not we can come to terms it hasn’t being happening that’s why this commission was voted in the first place. Chair Sylvester : I think we have a new opportunity with new people present and this new commission that maybe we can achieve more hopefully so I definitely think Mark’s [Bartell] suggestion will be put on the agenda. D. Yoshina : I would like to second that, we need to hear from the horses’ mouth. What Mark [Bartell] said is very important to establish relationship to work toward the same goals. T. Lodge : I actually have a meeting with Lisa [Hadway] tomorrow at 1:00pm. My purpose in meeting with her is to get her vision of what she sees in the forest and what she sees with hunters, what her idea to get a feel of what her motivations are. She has some power but not much probably. We need to find out what her objectives are, her goals and how it might conflict with ours. They have a tendency to conflict with ours. The watershed is a good example. We have a document here that DLNR puts out for example, it’s a game management a resource management guideline - and it talks about what they’re going to be doing with the ungulates and the birds and everything else here on the island and then you look at the Watershed Plan that they have and the plan completely eradicates everything that they talk about in their Research Resource Management Plan. So, there are inconsistencies in DLNR’s own message to the public. And before we move