2017-02-17 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes — February 13, 2017 pig or goat and those are gonna do a lot more damage than a bird — by the time you get to the birds it's not really a big concern. KD: Cattle — what do you mean by that — cattle? JB: The feral cattle that are in the forest...banging on the trees — they take the bark off — when they get thirsty they rip the bark off the trees — that damage — those are definitely entryways for the disease of doing all that damage. I don't know if the cows actually rub and get fungus on them only if they like actually dinged into trees would they do that but they're doing significant amount of — you go up in the forest there — you see disease, I'm sorry, you see damage from the cows on that. TL: You see dead trees? JB: You see dead trees — they just plain girdled the whole thing. If you look up at the forest in the upper Hilo watershed or the DHHL lands up there — full of dead ohia. 4. Hunting, Fishing, Archery, Outdoor Activity day(s) — this is follow- up to last year's effort to showcase our resources with an emphasis on the youth of Hawaii. TL: OK. Teresa you want to start off and I'II preface this with last year Billy Kenoi gave us about $7,500 dollars. I believe it was to do an outdoor family fun day kind of a deal and he wanted to involve kids with that project. What we ran into was there were no County facilities that were available to us at that time. We found out that some of these facilities have a really long lead time as far as us being able to get involved. Teresa reignited that effort in that she wanted to have a fishing and a hunting kind of thing and the hunting part probably we won't be able to do — but the fishing part I think would be good and or tie a hunting -fishing day. We're looking into that date with the Shooting Sports Foundation has a hunting - fishing day that we've been doing here in Hawaii periodically so — anyway, Teresa, go ahead and give us some idea of what you were thinking about there. TN: What I was thinking about is holding things simultaneously being that the island is so large. We pick a weekend that both sides of the island could enjoy. As far as the hunting would go — it would be about vendors and education and issues that we would like to put forward to the table like our range target area — have community involvement in that and bring these issues to the public. As far as the fishing part tournament would go — it would be an invasive species fishing tournament - one that we could hold here in Honokohau Harbor and maybe Hilo could hold theirs somewhere by the Bay Front area or you know the fishing fights that Hilo could have 29