2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 TL: What is the point of an HCP if you have to wait five years, eight years, ten years? KS: Why would I want to add a whole bunch of animals or improved animals in an area that just gonna get fenced and then I got to go shoot ‘em all out of that fence anyways. So why don’t I wait until the fence is up so I don’t – and then I can put animals into the area. TL: Well, how long does it take you to put up a fence? KS: Depends on who’s building it. TL: That’s exactly right. They put up fences all over the place in no time at all - it takes ten years to even get this thing done or fifteen years... KS: No, there’s several fences that you’re trying to build so - if an area has the fences in already an it was two years – then in that area we start doing some of the actions – but to do the full sweep of the things we want to do – we can’t do that until all the fences are in, but, like Henahena fence – when that fence is up – there’s some things that we can do within that area in a year when the fence is done – whatever it is – probably with another year out – so we do have that flexibility... NP: Well 8,000 acres are going to be fenced? KS: Four thousand is already fenced. Four thousand more will be fenced. TN: In your four thousand fenced area, are you saying that there is no – any wild pigs, goats, sheep in that area anymore? KS: Yeah. So once the exclosures have been put in then eradication within those fences will take place. Yes. TN: In the area that is already fenced – the four thousand acres... KS: Oh, the four thousand that already exists? Some of them there are no game but the largest one – the forest bird sanctuary – we do still have pigs in there and there is active eradication for those pigs in that area. \[Discussion\] TN: There are animals still in the fenced area… KS: Some of the fenced areas, yes...animals are still there. 17