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<br />Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – August 25, 2014 <br /> <br />David Penn is employed through the University of Hawaii, Pacific Cooperative <br />Studies Unit assigned to the DLNR Access and Acquisition program that’s in the <br />Wildlife Program at the Division of Forestry and Wildlife. He moved to Hilo in <br />1981 and he has been in Hawaii most of the time since them. His career has <br />been in state government, federal government, university, he owned a private <br />company and did other things. He started in this job three months ago which <br />was previously conducted by Jordan Jokiel. <br /> <br />He met with J. Jokiel in June and is currently learning about the different access <br />and acquisition projects issues that have been going on and taking care of loose <br />ends that needed to be taken care of within a certain time frame. <br /> <br />D. Penn has done some research and reconnected with the people who are <br />involved, he is looking forward to making progress with this commission, with the <br />hunting community, with the forest users in general, and get more things done so <br />that we can have more access, better access into the different forests and <br />hunting areas. <br /> <br />GMAC asked D. Penn to give an update on three things. <br /> <br />J. Jokiel provided this commission with written updates on various projects that <br />he was working on. D. Penn will continue to do the same. <br /> <br />Contact information: <br /> <br />David Penn, Wildlife Access And Acquisition Program (WAAAP) Coordinator <br />(Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit University of Hawaii at Manoa) <br />Phone: (808) 587-4171 leave message and call will be returned. <br /> <br />The Wildlife Program Manager Maureen Moren recently resigned and that <br />position is now vacant and to be backfilled. John Vetter, the wildlife biologist, is <br />currently on temporary assignment for that position. <br /> <br />The game biologist position has been filled and that person will officially start on <br />, <br />October 12014. <br /> <br />GMAC questions: <br /> <br />1) What is the scope of your work under the Access and the Access and <br />Acquisitions Program? <br /> <br />As defined in the job description there’s a few components, <br /> <br /> <br /> Participate in strategic planning that goes on in Division of Forestry and <br />Wildlife. <br /> 2 <br /> <br />