2017-02-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — February 13, 2017 any of that — even going sample to sample within a tree. I use that to sterilize it. I knock all the dirt off my boots with a brush — I carry a brush and a spray bottle of alcohol in my truck — I knock all the dirt off when leave somewhere and I give it a spray of alcohol just a little bit of insurance on that — but I think the really important thing is getting all the dirt off and then especially if you go from an area that's badly infected to a fairly pristine area, like Stainback. Basically anywhere in Puna, but we're seeing quite a lot of, for example, up House Springs Road in Kau. There — we see a lot of it down the Kona forests. If you go from any of those to like Kohala where we don't have any yet — a real thorough cleaning of it and again the vehicle will carry a hundred times more mud than a pair of boots will — but it's good to clean your boots off too. KD: So what about like land clearing like you guys go with their dozers, you know? JB: Land clearing is a huge problem. Any injuries — so one of the things we see... KD: I mean a lot of times - I see the guys there like just stock pile 'em on their land, you know what I mean? JB: Sorry — stock pile what? KD: They stock pile —they don't bury it - they just pile `em up when they land clear... JB: Oh, the ohia trees themselves? KD: What I'm saying is then this dozers go from property to property right around the islands, yeah? JB: Yeah. We're trying to work with the earth moving companies — that's a huge thing and we're trying to work with it — trying to get some sort of practical way of doing it. I think steam pressure washers that heat it are one way that we could work with that but we haven't solved that yet. We're really trying to work with that — that is certainly — if you cleared land in Leilani — and then you had another job somewhere else — you loaded your dozer up. That would be a great way to move the disease — so we've met with the state and the county road crews about that, we are still working on. NP: Is it possible that a healthier ohia tree might be more resistant than say an ohia tree that's already been compromised from other... 16