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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – August 22, 2017 <br /> <br />KS: Oh, yeah, sorry, I do know who that is. I just don’t know him by name, - not <br />yet. <br /> <br />TN: Kanalu, in the fenced area – how do you control the overgrowth of weeds and <br />brushes that are not endemic or indigenous to the area? <br /> <br />KS: That’s written in the HCP. Obviously, in an ideal world we would have the <br />staffing and the funding to do weeding and other kinds of controls like that. <br />We got a lot of kickback from Fish & Wildlife Service saying that our <br />exclosures were not big enough and we tried to keep them as small as <br />possible because we didn’t want any teamed areas that were mostly fountain <br />grass or mostly non-native forest and other species like that and so, we, on <br />our end, I mean, you can say we’re awesome for it or not – whatever you <br />want to think – but we were actually trying to keep these fences as small – not <br />necessarily as small but as realistically manageable as possible. <br /> <br />TN: My question was – how do you folks keep it down? <br /> <br />KS: Right. <br /> <br />TN: Is there a method that you folks use is it chemicals? Is it natural? <br /> <br />KS: The crews would go in and hopefully these areas don’t have a lot of weeds <br />already in them and so the crews would go in and do manual control mostly, <br />probably can do some spot spraying with a helicopter if we needed to – but a <br />lot of cutting and herbicide applications – that’s how we intend to manage the <br />exclosures. But like I said mostly – hopefully these areas are already mostly <br />native species and so the weed control in there shouldn’t be super labor <br />intensive – shouldn’t be. <br /> <br />TN: I’m talking about the already 4,000 acres that is already fenced... <br /> <br />KS: OK. The stuff that’s already fenced? <br /> <br />TN: I’m asking what methods do you use to keep the weed control down and if it’s <br />chemicals and herbicides? <br /> <br />KS: Yes, all the methods I just listed we already do. <br /> <br />TN: And so when you say herbicide what kind of herbicides are you folks using? <br /> <br />KS: It depends on the plant species but we use Glyphosate RoundUp and Garlon <br />mostly. We also do some pre-emergence but... Mostly those two. <br /> <br />TL: You said there are seven instances of poaching that you caught on camera? <br />21 <br /> <br /> <br />