2014-09-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 15, 2014 C. Masuda: Chairman I just talked to Mr. Pacheco. Earlier you allowed him to testify after Miss Hadway. You know Mr. .Pacheco says, at this time he’ll waive his right to testify on this issue so you can just move on. Chair Lodge: OK. All right. Thank you. Tony… T. Sylvester: I just wanted to make two announcements. One was for Ryan Kohatsu their club group provided food after the hurricane in Puna so I wanted to be on record to thank them for that. And I also wanted to thank Lisa and the DOFAW staff for the cattle hunts at Puu O – you know that’s something that took a lot of extra work to do and hopefully we can continue to do that. That’s something that wasn’t required or needed, so we got to give some credit to DOFAW for stepping up and helping out with that cause I’m sure that’s taking a lot of budget to run that project and thank you, Lisa, for that. D. Yoshina: I’d like to add something. Lisa, thanks for being here, I did not want to give you the impression that I’m reaming you out because I’m not. I’m just telling you that this is the general feeling I get. And so if we want to, and I say “we”, if we want to address these questions or issues – we need to have the opportunity to do that. GMAC can’t do it alone. You know, we want to start talking about what the policies are for this state and we have to have that understanding. And if we disagree on the policy, I mean, we all got to be big enough to say, yeah, well, you know, but we can’t get, and I understand what you’re talking about when you talk about the ESA, right. I mean, that is a heavy duty law. And there are white papers in Congress right now \[unclear\] yeah. And you know the scary thing about that is, that has traction with a lot of guys on the land here. And so if we want to avoid the conflicts that are going to come, eh, by all means, let’s sit down and talk. Let’s work it out, let’s have these issues talked about. Because when we have to balance our previous environment with housing for the poor or for the less, you know, affordable housing, you’ve got to do something. And those are major issues and they’re coming up…you know. K. De Coito: And I want to add to that one because that’s exactly what I’m trying to get at – is like how can the County and GMAC help the situation. I mean even we need to understand this. If Mauna Kea State Park take over – or Adopt the Park Program for the County or adopt one trail at a County level – fine! But give us that permission at the State level – the County through the State. Just like Friends of the Park – they killed the park. Well, at the State level through the County. So we’re asking for my part. How can we get involved and not just shoved down our throats? Easy, simple and not have say, you know, go out with Nature Conservancy whoevers so this is what it is. No, public like help. I mean I get one pile guys just waiting for that fence! They don’t make that fence but I got boys that going just come there with their own posts \[unclear\] pounders and pound those fence. They just needed somebody to purchase it. So we worked it out because that was benefiting us. 28