2014-08-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 25, 2014 kids and stop – I just got hired to take care of ranch – I’ve got a letter that I’m gonna file with the police department \[unclear\] phone number – they give me authorization to stop the hunter coming in . They’re to call 911, where I’m protected, the landowner’s protected, I get DLNR involved, I get Steve involved, you know, I just brought an issue to \[unclear\] fifty and three quarter, a guys playing \[unclear\] over there. They just had fist fight and they gave, where they beat up an old man, the landowner at the house sitting there, you know, we’ve got a lot of problems here, but his watershed bill – it totally kills us, you know, there’s not restructuring that can be done on it so we \[unclear\] back into these areas and have a game management plan and reassess it. \[Unclear\] taxpayers \[unclear\] a man over here’s getting his cattle nailed because there’s no access to the forest, there’s no animals there to hunt, you know. He can remember, \[sounds like Boutellian\] family they all hunt for years. They know what the forest used to be. They don’t get no game management plan, you know, these guys are gonna go get the easiest way. Get a lot of drugs on the streets these is out cowboys all night long, days on end, like you said he’s got to sleep in his pasture. TL: Thanks. I want to move. Keep it to the agenda we have other people that want to testify. PG: OK.OK. I’m good. Thank you. Chair Lodge: All right, thank you. C. Masuda: Next testifier is Ronald Fujiyoshi. R Fujiyoshi: My name is Ronald Fujiyoshi. I’m going to testify on unfinished business. My wife who is here with me who wrote the letter to the Game st Management Advisory Commission dated May \[sounds like 91\] and has not received and answer. An informal answer to her was that the Game Management Advisory Commission couldn’t agree on how to answer the letter. To me, I feel that I’m more than a member of the public. I am a pastor of the \[unclear – sounds like Owao\] First Hawaiian Church and although I may be a pastor I’m a proud member of Pele Defense Fund. When the first resolution came before the county, setting up the Game Management Advisory Commission I took the time to testify and say \[unclear\] and it was placed on the ballot and I think a large overwhelming number of people passed it and my understanding of what the Game Management Commission was supposed to do is to do a game management plan for this island and I don’t see this plan coming over and I think that’s the crisis of what’s they think with all of these problems – if we have a game management plan for this island than we wouldn’t have all of the wild pigs coming in to residential areas looking for food because you’ll get rid of the fencing but do it in a way dealing with the hunters, the practitioners, the gatherers, and so everybody gets a win-win situation if that plan gets done, so we should not be waiting for game management plan from the state, but your job as a people on this island was to do, to serve the public, and do a game 16