2013-05-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes - May 13, 2013 2. DEVELOP A VALUE SYSTEM FOR OUR GAME R. White: Ok. Hi, this is Rob White. Listening to Lincoln – I’m going to have a little bit of trouble making a motion on this one – to make an ad hoc committee only because – I’m not exactly sure how to put into words the end result so… So, I may ask for commission members to help me on that one, if that’s possible. But, maybe I could read what I have written here and then after that open it up and some discussion and then make a motion after that? Is that appropriate? Chair Sylvester: No, go ahead, go ahead. R. White: Ok, all right. Forgive me – this is actually a very rough draft… \[Chuckles\] Ah, so this is the best I can do with the time that I had but – it’s titled as The Value of Hawaii’s Hunting Tradition. 2013 – the “I” generation – using Smart Phones to email, text and search the world-wide web – technology has reached far more than fits into the palm of our hands. Smart cars – that talk to us; spacecrafts landing and researching other planets; and even microscopic machines that can re-build human tissue. Though, some technologies have not helped at all – they are actually killing people – a lot of people everyday. Due to many far reaching economic and political reasons – chemicals introduced into every facet of our daily lives are killing us and we may not even know it. Hormones, sodium lauryl sulfate, benzene, fluoride, isopropyl alcohol – some of these names sound familiar to you – some of them may not – and many more cause anything from cancer to deformations to blindness and inevitable slow death. These problems have been known for long enough – that many people are making efforts to use chemical-free lotions, cleaners, foods and other everyday products. But there’s a problem – they are hard to make and expensive. So what am I getting at? What does this all mean – it means everything we do – everyday has far reaching economic and political effects. It also means the big businesses and the politicians understand monetary and political solutions – not what is right or wrong – not what should be owed or should be given. We need factual, hard evidence, money and political backing and huge public support to procure our goals and objectives as GMAC. For the sake of economic argument, I believe we need to be able to present economic evidence as to how and why hunting in Hawaii is or has value. We need to show the 29