2014-11-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — November 17, 2014 realignment and exchange of roads that reserve with the county. Now we were talking about trying to purchase the property and it's like they want us to just support an easement. WC: I cannot support the state buying that piece of property. TS: About 15,000 acres that was coming up for sale. The County could purchase that through PONC to keep the open space and access because a lot of the hunters from Onomea, Pepeekeo use this area. There's a state parcel that's gonna be landlocked inside of there and I think it's a 1,300 acre parcel and 5,000 acre parcel mostly coastal property. So we thought this might be a good project for inland but apparently — looks like Fish & Wildlife is involved. WC: I don't think we (GMAC) should drop it. But I think we should continue working with our council members and seeing if we can find the monies somehow county -wise to purchase this on — because honestly I don't think DLNR and the state purchasing this is going to be, you know, in best interest. I mean they've already proved that. TS: Even if it's the smaller of the two parcels. WC: Right. TS: The smaller parcel is 1,700 acres and then the larger one is 13,000. So maybe the smaller one — at least that way the County, at least we can always have in perpetuity an easement up in that area otherwise it's gonna be surrounded by fed and state fencing. No access for gathering or hunting or whatever. MB: If my memory serves me correctly the whole reason this started was that at the corner of the land that got sub -divided and another piece of private property is a forest reserve which we can hunt. And what we needed — we have an easement on the parcel that got sub -divided but all we need is a small chunk of property to get access to the forest reserve, right? TL: Correct. MB: We've got to buy the 13,000 acres or 1,700 acres to be access to something the state already owns, I mean it would be great. But what we need and what we started out with is how do we get a relatively small chunk of property at the corner of where those four all abut to gain... TL: It's already in process, if it changes ownership, then that easement would be compromised. 7