2014-08-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 25, 2014 Akaka Falls subdivision in Honomu area - This is one that D. Penn heard about through the Na Ala Hele Trails Program that was pending. (D. Penn pointed the area out on his power point). No response from Planning Dept. As per county ordinance, six lot subdivision - there is a requirement that access be provided and DOFAW is able to keep tracking that and to help out with making sure that access is provided. Kau Forest Reserve Fencing – D. Penn visited the area the morning of GMAC meeting and went along the areas where the access road and the fence line is planned to go. D. Penn pointed the area out on his power point. DLNR Deputy Attorney General completed its review for a 20-year public access agreement across Olson Trust property that leads to the Forest Reserve. DOFAW sent the proposed agreement to Olson Trust. After DOFAW and Olson Trust agree to the terms, DOFAW will request that the Board of Land & Natural Resources (BLNR) approve the access agreement, and will notify GMAC when the license agreement is scheduled for BLNR consideration. As soon as that’s done, the fence material and whatever road building and everything can go forward. All the material has been bought through funding under a Voluntary Public Access grant received from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Services Agency. Phase 1- the folks in Kau are putting together the labor force through, a combination of efforts with DLNR, Nature Conservancy, hunters, and a few other parties that can all contribute with labor, equipment, etc. Phase 2 - finalizing the agreement with this lessee to realign the fence at the bottom here (pointed out on power point) so it would take a little bit out just at the top of the pasture lease area and probably have to survey that fence line to finalize the lease. D. Penn pointed out the fencing area where the first survey was completed. He also pointed out another area that will be surveyed which is considered phase 2. D. Penn also pointed out the current access is either all right, up to the gorge at the waterfall, or way up Mountain House Road, but you can’t go all the way because there’s the water supply gate up there, so the idea is to have a way all the way along the bottom of the forest reserve with a lot of other points to go up. There’s a couple of like old roads that go up through the area, old 4-wheel drive roads that may or may not be passable. Once the landowner signs off on the agreement they will be able to move forward. Keamoku - a long-term Cooperative Game Management Agreement for Keamoku is unlikely because the need for unrestricted military access to the 4