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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br />Minutes – August 22, 2017
<br />not being from Hawaii it will take a little bit longer for her to get up to speed
<br />but I’ve been happy with what she’s working on so far especially since the
<br />position was vacant for so long.
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<br />TL: Well, and I don’t mean to cut him off but she’s done a lot of things and started
<br />a process of things that haven’t been done here for many, many, many years.
<br />And, you know, she’s an advocate for the newsletter, which I think is really
<br />good, you know, we’re talking earlier about publishing the convictions and so
<br />forth, you know, that’s a great venue or a way to publicize that, as well as,
<br />getting that information out to us so that, you know, like Ryan Kohatsu has his
<br />own Facebook page, we have a Facebook page – if we can contribute to that
<br />to help stop poaching or see if we can – but my man – I’m gonna get to him
<br />here in a second is – when we got that draft back on the Big Island Game
<br />Management Plan – there was an awful lot of DLNR – I mean, I call it a
<br />\[unclear\] piece, but, you know, environmental promotion rather than looking
<br />at, you know, game management, you know, clinically \[unclear\] the other
<br />people are gonna come out and bring reference to the fact that, look, we got
<br />these plans, we’ve got these other things, we’ve got, we do these, you know,
<br />fencing. We have all these other aspects that are there without focusing just
<br />on game and that’s one of the things that, if anything, I can add is that that’s
<br />one thing that I would like to see more of an emphasis on, on the motion,
<br />protection and the education part that we were talking about earlier as well
<br />through the commission and also through the DLNR and especially with this
<br />HCR where the state is saying, you know, hey, we want this game, we want
<br />to promote this game and we want to use it as their sustainability module
<br />and....
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<br />KS: Is it OK if I make a comment?
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<br />WC: Go ahead, Kanalu...
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<br />KS: So I haven’t seen the return draft to you, yet, so I apologize and I’ll get on
<br />that. But the original plan that we got was a slam piece on DLNR and not that
<br />some of the things in there weren’t valid but it was knowing the author – the
<br />main author of that – was so you call it a puff piece and maybe it is now but it
<br />was definitely a slam piece on us and it was not – it was not a management
<br />plan – it was a changing DLNR plan – which is maybe valid but not something
<br />we can control on our level.
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<br />TL: I agree with you on the original plan as far as, you know, some of the
<br />comments that were made out of that original plan – and I will get you that
<br />other draft...
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<br />KS: Nah, I can get it from Jim, I mean, Jim sent it to you \[unclear\] – the other
<br />draft?
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