2017-02-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — February 13, 2017 or melastom or something like that when I'm - uluhe — when I'm trying to go through the woods — I'm not chopping ohia. TL: You don't see any danger of DLNR saying, "Your bullets are gonna land in or some environmental organization" - Your bullets are hitting these trees so now that's wound that's gonna kill that tree. JB: I'm much more concerned about is driving vehicles from and infected forest into a non-infected forest. All of this is a percentage thing, nothing is gonna be perfect on it. What is gonna move the most amount of an inoculant? What's gonna do the most amount of wounding? Bullets — not so much — walking along taking a chop every 100 yards over the course of the day — then you've infected a lot trees — so that's something we urge people not to do. TL: On the vehicles — when we were up on Hawaiian Homes lands up there going into the back — on a cattle hunt area — when we came out we had to wash our boots and things with alcohol, I think it was that we sprayed on and I think they also sprayed the wheels or the tires - Is that gonna be sufficient? JB: Again, it's a percentage thing and I don't recommend alcohol on wheels and tires. TL: It may not have been alcohol — I don't know what they were spraying... JB: If they're spraying it would have been alcohol. Let me back up a little bit and talk about the biology of the fungus. This is a real successful kind of fungus. It has several different kinds of spores and several ways of spreading — they have a hard shell spore — that's the kind that lasts for four, maybe five years - that's what's gonna be in any kind of sawdust. That's what's in the beetle produced frass that's in the mud there. What you have to do with that is you just have to wash off the dirt. So I pressure wash under my truck. If I go off road — say Stainback where there's a lot of it — and then I go somewhere else like up Hakalau — I pressure wash. I come back to my base yard here — I pressure wash under the truck to get the mud out and again, if it's caked with mud and you clean out 99.99% of the mud you're done. You can try it to clean out more. If you cut wood, the fungus also has sticky spores. So then your tool becomes infected — it's got that sticky spores on it- so chain saw, axe, machete — anything cutting into the wood — in Latin America they have a Ceratocystis disease of coffee — they call it MolDay Machete — cause the guys pruning coffee take it from one tree to the next to the next as they go down with their machete. That's where I use the alcohol — anything that I cut — it I cut the tree with a chain saw — I take it apart — I take the blade off — take the dust out and soak the thing — spray it with rubbing alcohol — machetes, hatchet, 15