2013-05-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes - May 13, 2013 DOFA’s part to put the agreements in place so that it’s in writing and it spells it out and it’s a legally binding agreement. This is what it looks like – so to that purple line – this is looking – on the left side is the Kau Forest Reserve – on the right side is private land, as well as - in the distance - some State lease land. What we’re gonna do is take this whole fence and move it on the makai side of the pasture road ‘cause we can’t bulldoze any road that just takes too much compliance to do it. So, I’ve got the fence materials and the wire and the fence posts from a federal grant to move that whole fence makai of the road so you can drive up – you’re always staying above the fence – to get to the forest reserve – and that’s the only – ‘cause the landowner has wanted that condition in place – so that minimizes the potential for poaching, for vandalism – we’re gonna put a hog wire fence – so hopefully that minimizes, dogs or anyone else crossing into the pasture. One of the things, I took this shot so – ‘cause one of the landowners said, “Hey, you know, like we’re already getting vandalism down here.” So, there’s not even a public access – these guys rebuilt the section of fence and like a week later people were cutting their fence – so I took this shot in just – because it’s really important with the public access – I mean these guys do not have to provide this public access - so whatever we can do and whatever you guys can do as the hunting community to just – to help minimize vandalism – or anything else – I think will really help keep these accesses open to the public and to the community. A couple more slides – so this is the west side of the Big Island – so this is up Puuwaawaa – Puuaanahulu area in red. I’m not – I’m just starting to get involved in it. To me – this seems like a really good opportunity to have hunting on a large scale – and hopefully hunting for sheep. Again, all of the hunting that we do – all of our hunting programs – as you probably are well aware of now – know, we have to make sure we comply with the Federal Endangered Species Act, as well as our own State Endangered Species Act and other laws as they come into play – I do think we got a really good taste for having, a public hunting program – a long term public hunting program – out here – I think the people that are putting together this plan that you probably heard about – this HCP – this Habitat Conservation Plan – have done a really good job of identifying the things that need to be protected to comply with those laws – and my hope is that 10