2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 mean, if you really sat here and listened to what Kanalu had to say tonight – to me that’s like great – that’s the best start that we’ve had in forty years. So by only continuing to – I don’t know what the right word is – it’s not ridicule but to just nitpick at the little things – maybe we should try and figure out how we can help get this thing done and get it going. I mean, I clearly understand – there’s 100,000 acres – there’s 4,000 already fenced – 4,000 more – 8,000 – that’s not even 1% of the whole place. It’s gonna happen whether we like it or not – let’s get this thing going. I guess, what I’m trying to say is we’re not getting anywhere – we haven’t gotten anywhere in my whole time here – I’m almost done with this kind of deals and I see these guys trying and I think I understand a lot of their obstacles and I think we need to try and help facilitate this so that it can get done – so we can see what’s gonna happen in Puuwaawaa. To me that’s the best that we’ve had in our 40 years – I totally agree – there’s nothing game management in anything right now – but hopefully that’s what this HCP is gonna do – is gonna give Kanalu and his guys and, I mean, Steve pretty much and his whole guys – all the people here on this island to have ways to help sustain some game in Puuwaawaa and, you know, I understand they’re not going to be able to put out anything real, you know, introduce – but the bottom line of that if you listened to what he’s saying is that we’re not gonna be continuing to decimate the population there – in a roundabout way we can get some water units out there, we can get some collar – I see all those as pluses and if we continue to only look at the negatives of this – like building 4,000 acres more of fence – we never going get anywhere with this and I think honestly it’s really weighing hard on me – I do agree with everything, I mean, I wish we could have a lot, lot more – but I am to the point right now where I think we need to be happy with what is starting to happen and continue that and not try and just cut ‘em down all the time and, yeah, and that’s my two cents. DY: I have something – I have not a rebuttal but I have some comments to make. You know the Puuwaawaa agreement that was started in the 1980s talked about a balanced, mixed-use area and what I have seen going on in Puuwaawaa and you guys, you know, this most recent activity in game management is the biggest thing I’ve seen in a long time, OK, so, I hope I’m not sounding like I’m critical of that – but what I am interested in pointing out is that what happened to the idea or the concept of Puuwaawaa being a mixed-use area – that you had a balanced use of many different kinds in the area. It seems like that concept that was worked on by many, many different people is being developed into a monolithic kind of forest reserve or something, which leaves out a lot of the original ideas for that area. And I would just like to see balance and we don’t get – I don’t see the balance – and that’s just one area – I think the whole island should be approached in that manner where we have a balanced use of our resources and we don’t seem to have that. I can understand why or at least I can understand the rationale that’s behind all this but, you know, we have people here and we 34