2016-06-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — June 20, 2016 Up and down the coastline — that's when I was younger. You can't do that today, cause it's closed off. We don't have access like we used to. CY: Where don't you have access? Specifically NP: Private development... Ike: Keauhou. We used to be able to just park the car, walk across the properties and go diving. And I wasn't a three -prong guy, I was a one - prong guy, OK? CY: OK. Ike: A hinge gun... CY: Sure. Ike: Or a sling, right. OK. You can't do that today. So, you know, we can all say, oh, we have a lot of access but we do not have access — that's the other question we have — we don't have public access anymore and I understand why, but we've lost a resource. CY: Well, when I was — back to being County Planning Director — we worked very hard [unclear] public access. The laws of access is people basically enforcing their private property rights that they had when they didn't — in the years past when the land was just undeveloped and open, typically, there has been a — public access on ocean has to be encouraged and we included and we opened — we had public accessed the ocean in these particular — in these areas — where there was an access, before the resorts were developed there was no — there was virtually no legal access over land to the shoreline in this area. Ike; But I used to go to Kaupulehu as a kid. CY: As a kid because nobody really was there — it wasn't developed and nobody was there to object. Ike: I think what I'm trying to get to is — where's the balance today? I mean, that's the question I keep hearing over and over and over and, and, you know, it becomes frustrating for me because I have no answers and the questions you're hearing tonight... CY: I know on DLNR's side — DLNR does not have that much to do with ocean access — that's more of a County thing — but DLNR has been working to improve mountain access for hunting — for example, in Ka'u, they worked out an easement to the mauka lands in the last few months. 15