2014-09-15 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 15, 2014 And there has been a request by others for a County Game Management Plan which would be with the counties having a plan for the county itself. Let’s discuss, any comments? T. Sylvester: My first comment on this issue is when we talked about this at our last meeting and correct me if I’m wrong but Kalani suggested that we come up with a game plan – he meant like a strategic plan of County issues and I don’t know how that morphed into a County Game Management Plan where we’re actually managing animals now. Managing animals could be part of this plan but I think Kalani was talking about we need to come up with a strategic plan of County issues cause it’s not just game animals, it’s access and other issues and things like that, that we talked about. So you can correct me if I’m wrong, cause I got pretty upset at some people when I saw that on the agenda. I thought that we were going to talk about a game plan of what issues, so if game management was part of it and like I said access and trails was part of this County plan – other County issues and things like that. We didn’t specifically say to have a County Game Management Plan agenda item. Is that correct? K. De Coito: It was something that – because of this island and every island has its own situations what have you and what it was, was just something when DLNR do their rule change – they do the management – they have – we have something in place to present and they can see – OK Big Island of Hawaii, County of Hawaii suggests to the GMAC that this is what it is and to ask for the consideration how, just overseeing and having the consideration of addressing the concerns that each location, each district has in a sense. Chair Lodge: So are you saying that your question initially was a game management plan involving DLNR and the Big Island. K. De Coito: Each district has concerns. Rather it’s a County goal, State goal of having. Not managing but in a sense on how can we get involved with them managing. Be heard publically. We do have some kind of influence now as far as consideration. It’s not about what association. They can come to us and they can voice their concerns, so we can bring it to the table. Chair Lodge: Are you talking about specific items for DLNR? K. De Coito: All depends on what specific items we’re talking about. For example the bird hunters’ not knowing if the season will open or not. They are confused with County parks at Mauna Kea State Park. That issue is guns, dogs, what have you. Well isn’t that our job as GMAC to make sure that their questions were answered in a proper way? Who answers the questions, Forestry or County that’s what I hear from all the public, what we doing, what we do. Well, this is what we trying to do. So basically, we got to come up with one plan for each district of what are your concerns in your district. What are your concerns as 9