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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes — February 13, 2017 <br />NP: Obviously you see a lot of healthy ohia trees with a lot of thick strawberry <br />guava growing all beneath them, right, that wasn't a point but if they were <br />sick, they certainly would affect the ohia since they're grown so closely <br />together. I've heard that some people have cleared out their strawberry <br />guava all around their ohia and then the ohia started digressing from that. <br />JB: Yeah, I hate it when I see someone sending in the dozer and clearing out <br />all the strawberry doing circles around the ohia... <br />NP: Well the root damage, yeah... <br />JB: Yeah, usually the root damage is gonna damage that from the roots. <br />NP: But I wonder if the strawberry guava are keeping the ground a <br />temperature that the ohia likes as well. <br />JB: You'd be hard to disentangle that from clearing from the root damage. <br />NP: Right. But it is really cool when you climb into a forest that's strawberry <br />guava and ohia. It's really cool. I own some land that's under native forest <br />designation that has strawberry guava and ohia and I climb in those <br />forests. But I'm concerned as a Game Management Advisory <br />Commissioner because the baby pigs — the strawberry guava is their baby <br />food, you know... <br />JB: Well, the more ohia we lose the more strawberry guava we've got. <br />That's what we're seeing all through Puna now... <br />NP: I'd like to send you some pictures and see what you think about 'em. <br />JB: People send me pictures of sick trees and please identify this tree all the <br />time... <br />TL: To see if we can't — at least for some time [unclear — not speaking in mic] <br />so they become aware of what... <br />JB: That'd be great... <br />TL: We can ask others to do the same... But the one thing about ohia that's <br />sad for me is that I enjoy the forest... <br />TL: Most of us hunters enjoy the forest, you know, we enjoy the ohia and it's <br />sad to see a dying forest, you know, so if there's anything that we can do <br />to help stem this in some way — if there's anything that actually works — <br />we'd like to be able to contribute. <br />26 <br />