2013-05-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes - May 13, 2013 J. Jokiel: Yeah. Please let me know. So moving around the island – this is more kind of in the Saddle area – so you guys probably know Forestry has had a long standing lease with the Department of Hawaiian Homes – so the Kipuka Ainahou lease is actually a multiple parcel. It was five parcels of land – but it’s really only three that DOFA has an interest in. There was - that lease expired in 2012 – and for some reason they didn’t renew the lease and it went to a month-to- month revocable permit – so I worked with Joey (Mello) – we just got that extended for another 20 years – and so that should be an area that you guys have public – well – I got Roger to sign it – Roger Imoto – who is now the administrator in Forestry in Honolulu – he’s sending that up his chain of command – but I do hope that this isn’t something that we lose. And, you know, 20 years I’m pretty encouraged by that. This is in Kau – so Kau Forest Reserve is I think 60,000 acres or something like that – but I know access to the lower boundary – it’s kinda hard – so across the screen – straight below the center of the screen is the town of Naalehu. The blue lines on this map are two roads that are useable by the public – and you can get into – I think they call it Mountain House Road and then the road to the north is – the people down there call is Waterfall Road – it goes to an area called conservation – but there’s no access in between… And so we’ve worked with the private landowner and a guy named Galimba who leases the State pasture to get permission – to cross their land from a public road to access the lower – like three miles of the lower boundary of the Kau Forest Reserve – I’m actually having some guys surveying that as we speak. They’re done with all their field work. They just – and then again they have to have those boundaries and those roads surveyed so we can put all of that stuff into an official legal agreement – so that access is secured along that – the purple line is the lower – the lower boundary – the access road that we’re hoping to get and that’ll be, you know, an existing pass road – that you drive up to the forest across private land and along the whole boundary for about three miles to access the forest reserve. And I guess that’s one important point too is, you know, getting this surveyed and we’re putting together a formal agreement because I think that you need that just to make sure that you guys have these accesses into the future. What I hear statewide is – you have a hunting area but you don’t know how long you have it for so I think it’s really important on our part – 9