2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 TN: And in the proposed mixed four thousand acres – as the fence goes up - you folks will eradicate the animals out of that area? KS: Yes. TN: And will you let the hunters do that? KS: That’s written in the plan that we wrote. That’s the first option – is use public hunting, yes. TL: What about trapping and removal? KS: Yeah, in some of the areas, we do intend to push the animals out before we do any kind of eradication, especially that Henahena fence. I’ll go back to this – maybe I should have gotten that pointer from you there. But if you look at this map and you see all of those red, purple and blue – are they gonna see the pointer if I point? KS: On the left side where there’s all those red and purple and blue dots – that corner of that forest bird sanctuary fence is – that’s basically an extension of the forest bird sanctuary that’s gonna be the Henahena fence that’s being built right now – you see a lot of the sheep like to hang out in that area – so it is our intent to push as many out as we can before we do any eradications. I will say that, that will be hard. That’s the largest – about an 800 acre exposure and so we are planning on doing some pushing with a helicopter – walking through is not gonna be an easy thing though. DY: Are you gonna ask for volunteers? KS: Yeah, yeah. DY: OK. My understanding was some of these enclosures will have one-way gates. KS: Yeah, they already do that on the forest bird sanctuary and it does work, you know, I know it works there. I don’t know if it works enough because we still have animals in there but it functions – I should say it functions. TL: When you talk about introductions – do you have at any point a number or a carrying capacity or a – what do you expect for that area? KS: So I should have just opened the plan for you. TL: Is the plan available online? 18