2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 NP: A letter from Jon Sabati. Sorry – been so busy getting ready for my wife’s surgery and meeting with doctors. Please share a message from me that I will be hosting district meetings in West Hawaii. Dates, times and locations to be announced once I have secured meeting areas for Waimea, Kailua-Kona, Kealakekua and Kau. I have been receiving concerns from hunters about a game management plan for Big Island, habitat improvements and wild fire prevention in Puuanahulu and needed changes in the hunting rules and regulations. We will be working to address these concerns and we need hunter input on other concerns and field reports from hunters. Hunters can email me at – hard to say – or message me on Facebook – Jon Sabati. W.H.GMAC. Ryan can share information on the last state commission meeting. Ryan is doing an excellent job on the board and is a great asset for the hunters. Tom, Mahalo to you and the Hawaii County Game Management Advisory Commission for all you do. So if anyone wants these Facebooks addresses or email addresses – just ask me and I’ll give it to you. Thank you. DY: Requested that the State GMAC minutes to be sent to the County GMAC. 3. Anthony Sylvester II – Vision for the Creation of State GMAC as it relates to Game Management for the State of Hawaii TL: Yes. We will ask them for such tomorrow. Tony Sylvester II, past Chairman of County Game Management Advisory Commission was instrumental in putting together the GMAC in 2013. TS: When Tom asked me to give a talk about GMAC, I went through my old notes and found interesting information about other Management plans and how it is being done. I called the state of Montana’s Wildlife Management Plan, and I thought that’s where we need to be. I just copied a lot of their ideas right here. I think it’s worthwhile for us to actually go through this cause it’s so hard to identify or say what we want and everything and when there are limitations with the departments and things that they can do – especially the guys on the ground. It’s interesting working with Kanalu, he’s done a tremendous job trying to push that forward and that’s a great model so far as game management can be with all the restrictions. I’d like to go through a successful plan and then if we listen carefully then we kinda pick out a few of the things of like where we’re at and maybe focus on some of the things that we really need and I’ll point out the ones that are really the problems for us here and why it’s hard to do this – obviously because our animals introduced species so I can’t directly compare to something from Montana. 4