2017-08-22 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – August 22, 2017 WC: Can I? MH: If you ever want to put something on the agenda you can email it to Tom. You guys are allowed to talk to each other, you know, two at a time, so if it’s something that you want to put on then we can put that on the next agenda. DY: This question is for Malia. If the board wants to talk about something we can vote to put it on the agenda right. MH: Yes, you can. You mean the current agenda or you mean the next agenda? DY: The current agenda...I think 2/3 majority? MH: Let me check on that, you can move on and I’ll come back. DY: OK. WC: I’d like to add this on the next meeting. Bird season is coming up – that’s a huge chunk of pretty good bird hunting. TS: I know I went to train the dogs too. WC: Is the training only in Kaohe? TS: Yeah, but I see a lot of people up there. WC: Well, that’s DOCARE’s problem, not ours... TS: OK. I’m assuming they’re training their dogs... WC: If we can reach out to Steve guys to give us a short presentation on putting up a map so we can understand where to hunt. 5. Kanalu Sproat, Puuwaawaa/Puuanahulu Habitat Conservation Plan KS: I’m Kanalu Sproat, Biologist for Division of Forestry and Wildlife – West Hawaii District. JM: I’m Joey Mello’s counterpart. I’m not nearly as good looking as him though. I’m here to give an update on our HCP and some of the changes that we made – not big changes it’s more just restructuring and the way we’re handling the game mammal management in the HCP at Puuwaawaa and Puuanahulu. I also want to take some time to update on the research that we’ve been doing out there. 9