2015-01-26 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — January 26, 2015 RS: Feral cattle, feral sheep, feral goats, feral everything that is considered feral... TS: And, relocating them to.... Some area for livestock or whatever it is, right? RS: Management, hunting... TS: Yeah, but feral cattle... Do you know what the classification for feral cattle is? Other than feral cattle... RS: Classification ... They considered invasive right now. TS: Are they? RS: Yeah, they're considered invasive. On Hawaiian Homes land they totally invasive. TS: That might be the problem, because if it's deemed invasive then it might be difficult to relocate them without special permits and so forth. I mean it's stuff we can try to find out, but I know when we relocated animals from Mauna Kea and we had everybody working with us at that time — Fish and Wildlife Service — DLNR — National Park and some hunting groups — and even in the end that — we fell into problems even with all those agencies helping us. So that's one thing to keep in mind if we try to look into this a little more. I think there's two problems: one is trying to find land and the other one is to see if legally we can relocate animals without having to do an EA or something like that. Thank you. TL: Robert, we're getting off of our agenda here — this is a discussion that should be an agenda item. What you need to do — and my request from you is to put together a proposal that we can actually look at and you're gonna have to do some ground work — you're gonna have to find where the land could be and then we can take that up at that time. Great ideas that you have, I mean, nobody disputes that, but we need to have a proposal, I mean, these, this is not just a forum here. So if you can give Mark, if you see Mark — make, write up a proposal to him that he can forward to us that we can then take a look at and put it on the agenda and see if we can do it. RS: All right. Thank you. KD: This is Kalani (DeCoito) from Kau. Yeah, because that one — cattle fall under ungulates — split hoof, ah? So, brah, I can kind of help you out on this one too. If you can ask one of them for my number, give me one call after. We can kinda work together with this. RS: Ok, thank you.