2014-02-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 24, 2014 Jordan (Jokiel) was trying to work really hard with you folks to understand some of the most important access points. K. DeCoito: Yeah, the whole access was one issue, but you taking away that fence – that area – where you guys want is just dead center of the forest. We have access to the forest. Now we’re going to have to play with all the private landowners and hopefully get that access through their side for get to the forest because basically that portion right there – is actually totally accessible right now. And when you fence ‘em, it’s not. So you actually taking away from the public hunting, not the private landowners cause the private owners is the places we cannot get to. For that area right here you’re off. And that’s what we’ve been trying to say for a long time. So listening? Never. That’s all I say. \[unclear\]. Chair Sylvester: Willie-Joe had a question, thank you Kalani. W. Camara: Lisa, back to something you had said earlier – about not being afraid. Who besides you is gonna stand up to not being unafraid because so far, I mean, so far, since I’ve been involved with this as much as I’ve been, you know, I, I take your word that you’re trying to stand up to some of these pressures from outside – but you’re only one person and the people above you and I’m sorry but it starts with the governor down – nobody, I don’t know if they’re afraid, but they not going to stand up for us. And, yeah, and we just leaning down to all these special interest groups all these years. And that’s where all this frustration is coming from. You know it’s not just what’s happening right now – this is years in the making – so how are we gonna convince the other key people in the department that everybody needs to work together and we don’t have, I mean, we don’t have to just lay down and let Fish & Wildlife bully us into doing everything \[unclear\] right now. I – you don’t have to answer it. That’s just my – it’s not really a question, I guess, that’s just my opinion is that you know who else is gonna have the backbone to stand up for us too, besides just you, because, I mean, I don’t know, maybe you got plenty power but it’s not enough, you know what I mean? You need, you need help also. How are you going to convince these other people, you know, Mr. Aila, whoever gonna take Esther’s (Kiaaina) position – you know – the governor. It’s rough. L. Hadway: I hear you. I think there’s a lot of great staff on the ground that is willing and able and I think augmenting the program and going after additional funding – I think there’s a solid recognition that’s there been you know programs that have certainly excelled in the last decade and I would like to see some of that moved throughout the entire division and hence the reason I made the choice to go into the position that I am in now. It’s not easy at all, but you know I didn’t have to come here, I didn’t have to make these maps, I didn’t have to. But I thought it was important, you know we spent a lot of time on Friday. I’ve made some choices not to go on some trips to work with Forest Service on some very specific forestry issues to spend my time, like I said, working on these national level endangered species issue. We aren’t always going to like the answers – 20