2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 KS: I probably should have brought DOCARE but I think the first time offense is $100.00 dollars about – the second time offense is about $500 – is what the suggested penalty is – the third time is a thousand – something like that. KS: OK. Lose a license for a year. OK. TS: They should lose their drivers’ license – that would wake them up real quick. JO: On the ranches – the penalty was usually more severe in the past – I worked on Hualalai Ranch and Gomes Ranch back in the Seventies and Eighties and Joe Gomes he used to brag that he’d plant a plumeria tree every place he planted a poacher. You’d be surprised how many plumeria trees were out in cattle country in the oddest places. Not many poachers left. TS: OK. And then, I guess for like out-planting, though, when Ike had asked about, you know, the area size and so forth – it’s roughly what 100,000 acres? Eight thousand – I think the key though is we’re back to that numbers again because the remaining habitat for game – what is the quality of that habitat? And like I’ve been up to the Henahena, in fact, Teresa was with me and Ike a few years back and Ryan, I believe, and we all went up to that Henahena parcel and just a lot more moisture... TN: That’s right... TS: The grass is greener and so forth. There was a lot of Kikuyu grass, I think, at that time in there and ohia but – so to plant, I mean to do bulk planting and things like that it would be kinda difficult in some of those areas unless is irrigation possible and that’s always very expensive and... KS: Yes, it’s hard. Thank you for pointing that out. TS: And cover is very, very important... KS: Yeah... TL: So in order to get to his question, though, is irrigation gonna be possible? KS: I mean, is irrigation possible, I mean, anything is possible but right now we’re not set up for it right now and we do have a good – we actually have a good water project on right now where they’re improving our \[unclear\] infrastructure all the way down from Hale Puila inside the bird sanctuary to the reservoir. We could definitely access that for things that we need to outside of the 24