2017-07-25 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawai’i Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 25, 2017 PB: Yeah, he talked to a lot of people and his interviews are captured. There’s about a foot and half of documents where he wrote down all the details and either he got it from the literature or he got it from talking to somebody. BM: Is that type of research being used today? When we had the severe drought up on the mountain about seven to nine years – and I have an opportunity where I’m on the mountain four nights a week for the last fifteen years, so I’ve seen the patterns, I’ve also seen the bird populations down at the Saddle Road, Pohakuloa area and they’ll go down the hatches that go down and he’s saying with the vegetation – well, I noticed the same thing with the mamane bloom – the fact that the fog bank was not coming all the way in – it would retreat early to the Waikoloa side and it was also at the time of the palila decline and the study came out stating why are we gonna do the eradication and if anyone had any comments – I commented and I stated that there were also other people that could support what we were seeing, but we were never contacted. Is there a possibility to bring hunters back in knowing that hunters are going to be reluctant to say I sighted this bird here, because they’ve seen the fences go up. PB: Sure, I still get telephone calls from people that say I saw what I think is such and such a bird and in some cases I just have a hard time accepting the observation because I think that’s just so unlikely and the person is maybe not that familiar with birds but most of the time, if somebody says I saw this and they describe it – I say, you saw what you saw and we’ll write it down and if I have time I’ll come out and look and almost never do I find it – because these birds are moving around. PB: I’d say all hands on deck when it comes to conservation so contributions from everybody I think are necessary. It’s not just a luxury, it’s really important for everybody to collaborate as best we can. KD: I just want to say thank you so much for all that information. Now I know for a fact that it’s management and that’s how we got to go about it and we get one commission at a state level and a county level so now we start utilizing in the right perspective. Thank you. PB: You’re very welcome. TL: Yeah, we’d like to have you back PB: Sure. OK. TN: Getting back to the agenda – can we go back to the budget? TL: What about it. TN: When the fiscal year ended – was the balance of last year carried over? 21