2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 can have that finished by then and then HCP and the EA together will go the board for approval. So we’re looking at hopefully spring 2018 to get that done. Before I get into the management stuff – I would say the biggest change that we made for game mammal management and the HCP was that we removed the game mammal management plan from, well, I turned it into more of a plan and then we took it out of the body of the HCP and included it as an appendix to the HCP – you guys can stop me and ask me questions whenever you want. The HCP – the covered activities on the HCP are meant to cover the actions that we do to create the exclosures where we’re gonna protect and mitigate for game management outside of those exclosures. So inside of those exclosures there’s no game mammal management, right? We’re gonna remove all of the game mammals from there. And everything outside of the exclosure the HCP basically is an application to the state for a permit to remove or to take endangered species outside of those exclosures. So the actions that we do to enhance and improve game outside of the exclosures doesn’t matter on an endangered species – for endangered species because that will have been mitigated for inside the exclosures. That’s the reason we took it out of the main body of the HCP because the HCP is only the actions within the exclosures. So it’s not in the body but it’s still the appendix in the appendix to the HCP. That document is also going to be the main source of the environmental assessment that we are having – that we’re gonna contract out. TL: When you say that game management plan is an appendix to this –I’m just throwing out words here just based on words – it doesn’t sound the focus of that HCP in Puuanahulu – primarily I guess this is what we’re talking about, right, not Puuwaawaa? KS: What do you mean? TL: I know the HCP covers bot...but are you planning on doing active game management in Puuwaawaa as well? KS: Yes, sir. TL: OK. So when you say “active game management” – what exactly does that mean to you? KS: What does active game management mean to me? I can talk about it a little more when we go over the next part of my... DY: What is the ratio of land that is outside of the exclosures? KS: The area is 103,000 acres. DY: Right. 11