2013-04-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes, April 15, 2013 Page 4 A folder was left with the mayor's office to pass out flyers to the public. The rest of the board members should have a copy. Just look at this National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses. There is districts framework to support all the states caucuses. We are not unique in losing state lands to endangered species. They use networking. Just look at this National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses, that's basically who the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation works through. You have different districts, the West, Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast the frame work of this assembly is to support between all the state's caucus. And basically, what they do is take situations, like problems that we have we're not just unique to these problems like losing land to endangered species or funding. What they do is use a networking system, where what works well in our state, how we were able to work with the legislator to overcome this obstacle and what they do is inter-feed us into each state that has that similar problem and then they can go into the legislative body and what they do is have a representative for that state which I think Hawaii needs its own representative that can represent us in the legislative level to passing bills in our problem trying to acknowledge game as natural resources. We tried together to have a Cooperative Management position with the state to manage our natural resources. I spoke to the Western Regional District, his name is Andy Treharne. I forwarded you guys the organizational material document, a pretty extensive document and it shows you how to go about obtaining a caucus in your state. Basically everything there is to do to set it up. They are only interested in coming in if it is a bipartisan, if it works in a bipartisan format. Everyone agreed upon all sides. Hunting and fishing is conservation. If the committee votes to move forward on this I could get more information to you guys or you could download what I forwarded to you earlier. T. Lodge . Did you get any response back from Senator Slom? C. Bailey : No, I haven't, and so what I did was, to bring everyone on board here, I just spoke about how the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, they really don't like coming into a state unless they have bipartisan support. We only have one republican congress person in our state. They are busy right now as we all know finishing up the legislation process. Mr. Andy Treharne expects to speak to him in May. I haven't heard back from him. So, I corresponded with him. He said, given Hawaii is a unique state, basically all