2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 TL: He gave me one the night that he was here and he gave me another one to follow-up on. KS: I think you sent it to me and I can get it from him too. TL: OK. I’ll be happy to do that. When I say puff piece – I don’t agree that anything negative of DLNR should have been there in the manner that you call it a slam piece. I don’t agree with the fact that it was there and I agree with you there – by the same token – I don’t agree with, you know, environmentalist stuff coming into a game management plan when you’re pushing environmental issues rather than game management issues. That’s my thing – it should be a clinical... KS: I agree with you. I just – maybe you could understand that when we as managers are reading this \[unclear\] document that basically the whole thing is degrading our agency and I’m not like I’m saying – I’m not saying our agency is perfect or can’t change – cause it can – but when that’s all we’re reading you’re gonna get a puff piece in return - I agree with what you’re saying though – it shouldn’t be a puff piece either and so I agree – I’m just trying to give a reason – probably why it happened. DY: I think what we need to do is to understand what we’re saying and ask, maybe, how do we get the chairperson to sort of push these as policy issues in a more balanced, equal way? Because seems like that’s where the direction comes from, right? ?: I think you started the process by establishing a State Game Management Advisory Council as advisory to the board so that is a big step forward to her – to our chairperson listening to the voice of the hunting community. DY: Maybe it would be good if she revisited us again, you know, because she came when she first started but she hasn’t been back and I know her deputy came but frankly I thought it was flack catching, right. ?: Yeah, well we have a new first deputy now and I would suggest that maybe after six months or so after the department understands better the role of the State Game Management Advisory Council that you write a letter to the chairperson asking her to come and maybe give her some questions that want addressed and then she’ll have a better understanding how all that’s gonna work. DY: See our problem is we have a re-election coming up so they’ll come and listen but there’s not much time to pursue this kind of thing, right? And we’ve had like four years already and we’ve asked the questions and, you know, frankly the answers we’re getting back is not – we’re not getting direct answers back – we’re getting indirect answers back and those indirect 32