2014-10-27 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes —October 27, 2014 included in the watershed plan. So you can see we're cutting down a lot of area. And some more area. Next we have the DHHL Aina Mauna plan which is — it's supposed to take up about 50,000 acres of the DHHL lands up on Mauna Kea. And one pointer is particularly in this area that I don't have marked — but in particular question is the Kipuka Ainahou area — the grey area we have there —which used to be leased by DOFAW— it's not technically leased right now—we haven't paid for it— but the Aina Mauna Plan particularly doesn't make any concessions for hunting. There's 50,000 something acres there — I believe they're making a little program where they — everyone recalls the sheep that you see on Saddle Road between those hills — those big herds. They'll be cut down — severely cut down — and then also pushed up higher on the mountain kept in about maybe 800 acres or so — and that will be your hunting program. And any unmanaged ungulates as stated in their environmental assessment—will be removed. So I don't know, maybe for some of the folks that area stakeholders or something like that— if you take at any one time what are you know the Hawaiians doing in DHHL lands right now? I'd say a lot of them are actually hunting in Kipuka Ainahou. The only place they can hunt. But apparently this Aina Mauna plan is supposed to put Hawaiians back on the land, it's supposed to benefit you by providing public-private partnerships with the Nature Conservancy, Hawaii Forest and Trail„ probably a lot of companies that are not run by beneficiaries — they're also going to reforest a lot of the areas and all these things — so I don't know— out of those 50,000 acres lot of Hawaiians like to gather and hunt and the best they could do in this plan was to give you roughly 800 acres to gather in and cut down this number of animals. So I don't know— maybe something you guys can question with your own commissioners on that. Next Puuwaawaa safety zone which is a green area there. We just had hunting in there so maybe you can take that out— but take these zones where you can't particularly hunt and now that we have, you have houses and development in there so not sure on the future of that. And then you, we have lava flows and poor habitats. So anyone knows that without good habitat you don't have wildlife. Food, water and cover, right? So these are mainly the big lava flows — the black areas — those are the main ones and you can see it takes up a significant portion of land. Of course there are others but those are the most definitive ones. So you can kind of see what we got left. You're basically talking about Puuanahulu, sections of Puuwaawaa, and the Kau Forest Reserve — those splotches here and there but some of these are landlocked and I'm not totally familiar with them so I'm gonna talk about these two. And just to make sure I'm not making this up —we have every year— five years or so —we have Pittman- Robinson plan that is put forward in which they define what we're gonna do with the federal dollars that is tax on all of your guys buying — buying rifles, ammunition and archery equipment. So we get federal funding to instate projects on our hunting lands and of course we have to make a 6