2014-11-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — November 17, 2014 jobs; we can do so much things, if you guys are willing to look at it on those basis. We asking OHA for money to fence in area, we asking DLNR to give us the land, OK, cause we don't have anything — all taken away. So they give us the land — we have a place at least we can go, we can put these animals on top. We can get one "catch & release." We will be the managers. We will advise the hunters when they can hunt, we will have schools that can go up there and see all these animals and what not and they'll be told who brought `em over and what they was here for, when they were slaughtered and how — they'll get the true history of it. Right now these cattles are being destroyed because they eat the bark off of a Sequoia pine tree, which is again indigenous from this land, brought over to be planted on Hawaiian Homestead land, yeah, indigenous, so we going kill the cattle and sheep because they eat the bark. Unreal. Chair Lodge said he appreciated his testimony and would like to hear more about this plan and possibly meet to discuss what this commission could do to help. Sustainability is the goal of this commission here and hunting sustainability and resources sustainability. RS: Terrific. Thank you for your time on this and whatnot, like I said, this is something that can be done and it should be done to preserve and whatnot, yeah, and hopefully we can make something out of it a lot better instead of just wasting this thing — or one or two guys get rich. Let's let all the kids get something out of it. A question was asked if any particular land was in mind or if it is mostly private land. RS: We were looking at DLNR. The last meeting we had come to in Building A (West Hawaii Civic Center). They were supposed to open the map and pick four slots in which they were going to put these animals on or designate. The problem with the designation was Mr. Aila said that they don't have the money or the man power — so we volunteered. We volunteered for it so that there's no worries of this, this, and this. And like I said, we going to OHA for fencing money and whatnot, yeah. So we don't have the exact location or whatnot — but DLNR has four sites that are already selected, so we just take whatever site that they select, whichever, all we ask for is that there be water on the land, yeah, some kind of thirty years worth of water. Point of contact person of the Aha Moku is Leimana DeMata who works in Mr. Aila's department. R. Shook hopes that this group could create something within the next five years.