2017-01-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 17, 2017 participate with the PTA and it’s like one neutral area, I mean, I just throwing that at you... JO: Right. KD: To help him assist his situation. He’s looking at the whole thousand yards that people need. Who is going to maintain? What’s the cost from them, they get the land – federal – state approvals, permits – and then the county just helps facilitate with the Pittman and Robertson – military don’t have to fund anything but just oversee the situation on safety. No sense ask small bits and pieces of gun range here – pistol range here – go for the big one. What they going say? No? They already taking care of Mauna Kea State Park – county. JO: There is an unofficial site-in area behind Mauna Kea State Park that folks have used and I was approached by the previous base commander Lt. Col. Richardson, I think it was? And he had proposed setting aside a section over on the Mauna Kea side of the highway, but as soon as we took a look at that – that’s the palila habitats so Sgt. Major Campbell is looking at is – it’s Mauna Loa flow – it’s a’a as far as the eye can see, so it’s certainly usable. SMC: There’s a model out there that I just recently found out is Fort Belvoir back on the mainland and they’ve run exact same issue we’re facing right here now – is in the county wasn’t anywhere for recreational shooting, however, there is a hunting program – they got the same beat down that we got of - how do you ensure safety? People know what they’re doing as they’re hunting. So they were able to go through legal or through the judge advocate and figure out how to do a joint venue on a range – so the county paid for or facilitated the building of the range – the army or the federal – through the federal lands was able to designate that land use as a recreational range – so it’s on Fort Belvoir but you don’t have to access it through Fort Belvoir proper – there’s an access point from a county road – so the county runs it, there’s a joint venue between the army and the county to build the ranges and so that’s a model that I’m looking into to see exactly how we could get at that and do a joint venue on this. SMC: Yeah, so Schofield had a rod and gun club and they had a recreational range and it ended up that the usage of it dropped and the – it was costing the army money and that was one of things that was cut through the MW – the moral welfare and recreation program because as we – they cut funds – anything that has the MWR stamp on it – if it’s not in the black it gets cut. And so if there’s – if it’s not making money to put back into the MWR it’s getting cut. 30