2013-05-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes - May 13, 2013 talked to the wildlife program – and there’s wildlife program managers – and asked them, “OK. What kind of projects do you want me to work on?” And one of the things that they wanted me to work on here was going through the rec \[unclear\] map that you guys get – you know it’s a public document that says these are the hunting areas – and go drive some of those routes and see – try to confirm if those accesses are still around. So, I went with Joey Mello (Wildlife Biologist – East Hawaii) and a couple of other folks – and I apologize you can’t see this. And, I’m not sure if you can see that – so that’s a map of the east side of the Big Island – so the road that I drove up – I have my GPS – and that’s my GPS track line – and the forest reserves are all in yellow – and you can see – I’m sorry you guys can’t see this in Kona – but the blue line – which is basically the road – the road ends on almost all the cases before you get to the forest reserve – and almost every one of those roads ended in a gate. And there was – sometimes one property owner between the road and the forest reserve – and sometimes there were multiple property owners. So the challenge is trying to figure out if there are any legal agreements – which I’m having trouble finding – and then also trying to figure out if we can work out agreements with some of those land owners – to get access across… Ok. So this is an example – this is the road that goes up to Kaiwiki – the purple line on this – on the right side – is the road – the red lines are the tax map keys – so those are all private parcels – where the road ends is that kind of red outline – you can see – it’s multiple – there’s multiple private properties between the end of the road and the forest reserve – and that - I think - is a big problem for trying to get public access. Again this is just another map – this is the road that’s by - I don’t know how you pronounce it – it’s Uma Uma or Umaumau \[sp?\] Road - \[unclear\] - it’s the same thing – the purple line is at the end of the road and there’s multiple properties before you get to the forest reserve. Same thing – Chin Chuck Road, Kolekole. Akaka Falls, … So, what we’re trying to do like – as much as possible – is try to look into each one of these different options. This is Laupahoehoe and I know there’s a Laupahoehoe Advisory 4