2014-10-27 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —October 27, 2014 for our legislature to prepare a state's filled resource management policies. And the reason why I've talked with some pretty high level people over the past few months and, you know, the will of DLNR is a problem because from their perspective it's — they don't believe in sustainable hunting. Whether they're forced — their hands forced —that they have to follow what they're following or not, I don't know. And it doesn't matter at this point. It's just that their will there is not there for whatever reason. OK? So what is cooperative management? And this so important to many things here, you know effective and equitable systems of resource management and that's where we're neglected in that sense right there. There's no equitable system. It's one or the other or none. It emphasizes sustainability requires devolving power from the central to local groups. So right now we're getting the feds and everything to get this upend of power — centralized power— it's not the local people anymore —we have no say in anything. And I'm gonna talk a little about biological opinions, which is the latest thing now. OK, and then empower local communities, share knowledge, power and responsibility. In [unclear] existing cooperative management efforts by DLNR, there's attempts —we have Puuwaawaa and Laupahoehoe Advisory Council —which they do some good work— but some of the problems are that the council's stacked with environmentalists plain and simple. I've been to the meetings in Puuwaawaa, they got some great people there — but most of them are government workers, preservationists pushing their set agenda. A couple of hunters — one hunter on there and he's trying really hard and there's another one that's an environmentalist with a hunting license and I mean that's what we have to deal with there. And the guys want to quit! And that's because of poor resource user representation to overshadow [unclear] representation. I've been to that meeting and I've been insulted with my wife, you know, by these people, and it's just why? I'm trying to be a part of what's going on and they literally insulted me and it was about the pig. [Unclear] a poor resource user representation due to overshadow of representation — its sufficient user resource user involvement— so that's back to us again. You know, we're the resource users and we need to get more involved because we can't just bitch and complain and then don't do nothing about it. And then the faulty council selection process. That's the problem with a lot of these commissions where this goes through the chair or I don't know if it's the administrator? The DOFAW administrator? You know? OK, a solution! A state game commission and why a state game commission — address the concerns of our community, work collaboratively with agencies responsible for game resources, give part of the rule making process, and so the issues affecting our game resources should be vetted through a game commission. Currently, who is making these decisions that and what input do we have? OK. I gonna talk about sustainable land management. And this is from the United Nations — U.S. Earth Summit in 18