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<br />Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – June 17, 2013
<br />they continue to aerial eradicate on Mauna Kea – I don’t
<br />even know how many more sheep there are up there, Tony,
<br />but that seems to me like, that’s us working with DLNR.
<br />DLNR’s doing the killing, right? DLNR is picking up the
<br />animals. DLNR need to do a better job of salvaging the
<br />meat, right? That, that, that’s the short term Mauna Kea
<br />issue. Right, so, can we influence DLNR? We should try to
<br />influence DLNR on that one, right? Long term issue –
<br />understand and congratulate the guys for doing the County
<br />work, right? But, large chunks of this island still are kind of
<br />regulated by the State. Longer term, intermediate term, we
<br />need to get wanton waste on the State books, right? So, the
<br />fact is, I mean the State is pretty much in control of Mauna
<br />Kea. If we had a State law on the books about doing this,
<br />um, I think it would hinder the next time they want to fly and
<br />shoot, right? I mean flying and shooting on Mauna Kea – the
<br />County ordinance has limited that, right? The lawsuit has
<br />overturned that. But wait till the next lawsuit comes, and the
<br />next lawsuit comes, and the next lawsuit comes. To think
<br />that we only have this battle on Mauna Kea, I think is very
<br />naïve. There are more coming, I’m sure. So, we just need to
<br />think ahead and be preemptive, right? So, today Mauna Kea
<br />let’s go do DLNR, by I think a State law of wanton waste that
<br />you cannot do this stuff, edible animals, um, is a reasonable
<br />intermediate step this group should take on.
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<br />D. Yoshina?: Yeah, so we get back to this question of, OK, is eradication
<br />game manageable? I think there’s general consensus that
<br />it’s not. And that’s what [unclear] that game management,
<br />um, questions, and the fact that the State has failed in this
<br />case. I mean, you know, eradication is an example of a
<br />failed game management program…
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<br />?: [Unclear]
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<br />Chair Sylvester: Joe, state your name please.
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<br />J. Gosselin: Joe Gosselin. Until we get it on the books that our animals
<br />are a natural resource, [unclear] not invasive, I don’t care if
<br />it’s County, State, or Federal level – what we did in the
<br />County already by stopping the aerial eradication is our
<br />guys. We all voted on it - we all got to get a chance to
<br />[unclear] that 39,000 people said [unclear]. Once we get the
<br />animals showing is it’s not invasive, cannot be invasive,
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