2014-11-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — November 17, 2014 a different plan and we want to share it with you guys so we can move forward with this plan. Which is what we were gonna share tonight — but not on the agenda. So I'm gonna ask that we get there. I'm also gonna ask when and ever you guys get a game management plan that we get a copy as well out there. I thought shooting animals from the air was against the law. But actually they no care how close we live because the closest village is Kawaihae village. It's next door to the timber company and that's where they were shooting `em. So DLNR — they no care about us. OK. So I'm here to complain on this item — what's working and what's not — nothing working for us. And we need your help to fix that. OK. The community concern, like I said, was so strong it came out in the South Kohala CDP. And I put down a page numbers, general policy numbers and what it was and what's supposed to be addressed. It's nowhere close to anything in any plan, even the watershed plans. They don't even address this stuff — so it needs to get updated and the game management proposal that we have — I don't know if you have time that you would like to at least listen to ours cause Robert Shook is here tonight for this one. The other thing that I think even State Historic Preservation needs to update is the fact that we have burials in our neighborhood — our neighborhood has a lot of ranches — including Parker Ranch. And the process right now is when they create subdivisions — then they go to the burial council. Well the problem with that is the cattle's been walking on these burials and the trails and it's getting lost and people stealing the rocks and they don't know where the rocks coming from and it's all on the burials so the process for this needs to get changed so that when they sell property — then you go to the burial council at that point. So that it's all included in the EIS, otherwise, those burials become inadvertent finds and they get stored in a closet in the bathroom in a plastic bag and then they get lost. Now that's the same thing going happen when the hunters go hunting. We don't know what their dogs are digging up. We don't know where the people are walking — they could be walking on graves! But nobody has taken the time to actually complain about our burials and our trails, which are valuable, which are historical, which are in the state laws, federal laws — that are supposed to be preserved and protected. We got a resolution for that. We can solve that with our game management plan and that is: 1) we don't want to be shooting next to our houses. Our children — that is our playground — they too close for that kind of stuff to happen in our community and I see one, two, three, four, five, six, seven and number 8. Number 9 is not there — South Kohala. So maybe that's another problem that we got, but nobody told us that. So I guess everything tonight — I just wanted to bring a sample of what is not working — because there's a lot more things that are not working, including the maps. Anybody have any questions for me? 3