2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 whatever, so that should have been sufficient enough to almost double the size of the protected area alone – if they just included that. And what we see from 3.5% to 22% is quite large so… I know it’s not your doing and, that’s… L. Hadway: Tony (Sylvester), if I may, I felt it was more accurate and more transparent to show everybody the entire gamut versus just the watershed fences. And I think that, that would be deceptive. And I felt it was important to show all of DOFAW’s projects on the books. Chair Sylvester: OK. And I appreciate that, thank you. T. Lodge I have one a question. Chair Sylvester: Yeah, Tom. T. Lodge: Why I appreciate what you’re saying here and the fencing is very small th part of this watershed plan at present, at that meeting on the 24 Tony (Sylvester) specifically asked Chair Aila that given the watershed, can we get back to that watershed map ---- one second. That watershed covers the entire area and all of that is priority 1 and priority 2. The goal of priority 1 and priority 2 was to remove all ungulates. Period. I mean that – and Aila confirmed that. Tony (Sylvester) specifically asked him, “Hey, if you had the money today would you get rid of ‘em today?” He said, “Yes.” So the goal ultimately is to, it seems like, remove ungulates from the island, which doesn’t fly with the idea of you know hunting for our children. Man: \[Unclear\] L. Hadway: And I’m talking from a perspective of reality of management on the ground and massive planning processes that have gone on – Kohala Watershed Partnership in cooperation with several of the private landowners as well – so you know in terms of the long term, like I said, 10 to 15 years – these are the things that have been planned so you know there is priority watershed that depending on where that rain belt is, is important, but there’s other activities associated with the watershed that are important such as invasive species control – that includes things like if we have some new plant show up like miconia –say it starts moving into Kohala where it isn’t right now – we would probably would be able to use some of the watershed funding to control something like that out there. So… \[Cannot hear the question\] L. Hadway: The reason for that is that the animals, in particular the ground layer of vegetation tends to be highly disturbed from – pigs certainly will overturn a lot – it also depends on kind of the where you are and which kind of forest it is – in particular – pigs don’t do as much damage when you have a really hard, dry – 16