2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 area despite it all. Despite what Mili was going through and what she was told – a lot of times that people was saying they wanted different areas. They wouldn’t see it. Their mind was made up. There was – just one public meeting out there – the formalities that needed done. So that’s why, it’s a big concern and that’s why it’s in a court hearing. L. Hadway: You know in terms of partnership we – you know every section of the island, I mean we find that there are different folks, you know, with different opinions all across the landscape. There are certain guys that are very oriented to one hunting area or another – and so – I mean ideally we’d be working with the communities that hunt in those areas – some of the areas that we have projects, you know, there’s guys that travel from all over the island, in particular Puuwaawaa. When that management plan was written in 2003 there were some folks in the hunting community that actually sat and helped develop that management plan. So there are advisory committees. I think we can do a better job – there’s no question – there are some folks that sit on this panel that have my personal cell phone number and text me. So you’re being heard. And I want you to know that they’re moving forward. I want to see you working together but that also comes with a recognition that there are things that – we have other mandates besides hunting and I’m hopeful for a landscape that we can provide for everybody and all of the resources that we’re required to protect and the last thing that I want to see is another law suit like happened on Mauna Kea. That’s the last thing I want to see. And I think if we can proactively plan together with the recognition that we don’t have mediocrity across the landscape – but we have solid game management areas – we have solid protected areas – that we can have a patchwork quilt of areas that can provide and provide for people to put meat on the table – but also provide for, you know, the story plants and species that are found no where else in the world but here. K. DeCoito: But see, what we’re talking about is my district and in my district that fence is proposed dead center of the mountain. There is no hunters, you know, where they can go higher. It’s like you’re taking that area right there. I think too, actually, really to get it on map and not know the area \[unclear\] but really go there and see that area – it’s where the \[unclear\] are. \[Unclear\] It’s not a Kahuku issue, it’s not a Nature Conservancy issue, it’s \[unclear\]. L. Hadway: Yeah, and I think one of the biggest I know for Kau that we were facing is access and getting into other sections of the forest reserve. And one of the creative ideas – we would really like to work with some of the private landowners who have current leases that may have some of those leases coming up and actually be able to have DOFAW lease some of those access points or create easements over them – that would allow access. But we gotta also understand that wherever we have access points, I mean, we also get the phone calls about the complaints of cars parked in places that block driveways and those kinds of things so I think it would be great to work with and I know 19