2014-08-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 25, 2014 Woman: Even where there’s no pigs in there to hunt? L. Hadway: \[Unclear\] lower section has a forest reserve that’s got… K. DeCoito: I can answer that one. As from the 56 \[sounds like Douse Road\] forest line straight across to where Mountain House come out \[sounds like Makino\] our forest. OK what OC did forest line here, police fence here, so \[unclear\] road that needs to come out to \[sounds like Waibada\] to Makino – it’s \[unclear\]. So \[unclear\] Mountain House, made Mountain House Road, you come down you turn around you go back out. 56 no can go because he drop all that – but the fence never \[unclear\]. So what was your question was this fence go makai – and leave that road open go up – so you can come from Makino go up Mountain House, come down Mountain House at the road, all main road, come across, go across through \[sounds like Waibada\] and come up Makino junction… Man: \[Unclear\] P. Dedman: That’s why, that’s why I was grumbling about this. So that’s why \[unclear\] go through all of this. That we could have solved this from day one that they show up – I was \[unclear\] writing the letter on the thing he had \[unclear\] right up to the forest reserve. That’s my - was my question. Woman: Well he started that litigation suit. I read the whole entire litigation - Kau Forest Reserve Plan. M. Bartell: So what’s the question? Woman: Your partnership \[unclear\] with The Nature Conservancy. Your partnershiping with private owners and they have all to save, all to save from that fencing. And then that’s what I’m saying, so you have people that are making decisions for the public that are private owners and I just don’t see that – the \[unclear\] there. And that’s all I have to say. Dustin Wamar: Right on. This question is for officer \[sounds like Web\]. \[Unclear\] a hunter is someone who \[unclear\] poachers \[unclear\]. Can you explain to me and the rest of the guys here, what exactly you mean by that because when I spoke to you a few months back regarding checking hunting licenses and that, you \[unclear\] opening day at the gate and your response to me was no. We’re not gonna check because you didn’t want to discourage anybody from hunting because nobody hunts, you told me federal regulations. So \[unclear\] you will be in there on that opening day and it’s, you catch anybody coming out that don’t have a license you’re cite them. So does this mean you’re promoting poaching to make a bust or that you won’t have be stand by your statement \[unclear\] a hunter… 10