2017-02-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — February'13, 2017 ground you've solved part of that problem — then if it's covered up with tarps — you've solved another part of the problem — so the tree in Laupahoehoe, which was a six foot diameter — a hundred foot tall tree — the whole thing was covered with tarps — they cut it up — they wrapped the whole thing with tarps to try to keep the beetles off it there. Burning and the ordinances on what you're allowed to burn is complicated and we're not gonna go into that now — but we tell people, a fireplace a smoke house — something along that. The County last year budgeted for an arborist to advise homeowners on what to do with their infected ohia and albezia — this was something that Councilman Ilagan pushed and Mayor Kenoi agreed was a good idea and it got dropped with change of administration. We brought this up last week to the County Council — they're following up on it now — where is that going. It would be really useful to have someone at the County being able to advise these hundreds of property owners what to do with their — especially hazard trees. NP: I would think you should be really careful about that because there is such a thing as natural ohia die back and I've seen ohia and I'm sure you have too where a whole top part of it will die and then it'll start all over again. People don't realize - they'll just be chopping all the trees down. JB: I think what we're doing here is we're concentrating on hazard trees — we want to get trees — they're gonna cause hazards... NP: People need to know that there's a difference so they won't be just chopping down every dying ohia tree. JB: If they're dying — like this tree here — even if it's gonna sprout back from the bottom, you still have a hazard thing to deal with. Again, I agree... NP: But I mean if its natural die back — not the fungus. JB: Well, in any of the dieback there's gonna be some sort of pathogen, clearing areas, what concerns me more is someone sees two or three trees in their 20 acres and they say, ah, we're gonna get rid of the whole twenty acres — call in the bulldozers - people do things like that. JB: That's a real a concern. OK. On to the County — I've just realized this a couple weeks ago is I've been reading the newspapers like you all have about all the pilikia about the composting facility. Well there are two different things that they're talking about. There's the food waste composting — they're talking about building a facility that has got the community all annoyed because of various complaints some of which are understandable, however, the green waste composting is proceeding and by the end of this month — what they're doing is you see this top picture — 22