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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes — February 13, 2017 <br />JB: I know plenty of people hunt and they love the forest, so I think the <br />message of trying not to move stuff around — that's really the management <br />that we're talking about now — is trying not to move stuff around so we <br />appreciate that. <br />TL: We'll pin that page for you. Any other questions from anybody 'cause we <br />do have a couple of topics... <br />KD: So there's no ties to pigs in this ohia, right, and the moving them around <br />situation? See, what I'm getting at I know like one time your report comes <br />and tells that the pigs or the goats or what have you is the reasons why <br />they transported 'em here and there and then we get the whole <br />eradication again going crazy. <br />JB: Well, again, I'll come here and tell you what we find when we go look and <br />measure stuff. We have done — so this weekend at Puuwaawaa, there <br />was a pig hunting tournament. They took samples from I think sixty some <br />pigs — their feet — to see if they're picking up the fungus on their feet. <br />There was one earlier this year that was done here. They only got about <br />15 samples — out of those 15 they didn't pick up any fungus of the feet of <br />those pigs. The Puuwaawaa — they came — the one this weekend at <br />Puuwaawaa — and did you all know about that cause I wasn't involved in <br />organizing that. <br />TL: We lost our video link to Kona... One of the foibles of tethering... <br />JB: On more and more of these on-line multi -think meetings these days. When <br />they work they're great... <br />TL: For us we have to terminate if that — if it goes beyond... <br />JB: OK... <br />[VC starts up again] <br />TL: There we go. OK. Hoorah for Kona. <br />JB: So out of the samples — we'll let you know what we find out about that <br />sampling. If animals are moving it around, again, the thing that I'm much <br />more concerned about is cattle. A cow's gonna do a lot more damage than <br />a pig. If you look at the upper Hilo watershed — all those trees are <br />damaged by cattle — so as far as animals doing damage in the forest — my <br />primary concern would be cattle, you don't have goats down in the ohia <br />forest very much. Pigs do some damage, so that could be but we don't <br />have any evidence for that yet. Cattle I'm really concerned with — as a <br />27 <br />