2017-11-8 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 8, 2017 DS: OK. Well, we’ll work on that. I want to work with you guys. We want to have a good line of communication so let’s keep working on it. We want to have a really good public hunting program in this state and I think we do have a good program – it you don’t think it’s good enough than let’s work on it. TL: Well, we just want to move from public hunting program to a game management program. DS: We’ll work with that. Call me anytime. Kanalu Sproat report on questions posed during GMAC’s August Meeting a) Forest bird recovery after the removal of animals KS: Here to answer questions from the last time. The first one about forest bird populations. Sorry, I don’t have that information yet. Our statewide forest bird manager – that position has been vacant for almost a year now and so we do have somebody TA to the position but he’s been working on it for me trying to get the information but he’s been kind of frustrated cause he hasn’t been able to find it yet, um, but as soon as I do get an answer I’ll let you guys know and I don’t know if I can just write a letter or I can come back, it’s fine, but so as far as forest repopulation recovery numbers within the forestry sanctuary I don’t know that right now. TL: Palila. Are you supposed to be doing these palila counts every year or every six months? KS: It’s a yearly and kind of February time. TL: And do you know what the count is for the last census up there? KS: I think it’s under 2,000. TL: Yeah, no, he thought that it was close to 2,000 or twenty-two hundred. KS: OK. In that area. TL: But he didn’t give us a number he just... KS: He did the same thing I did. TL: We would like to look into that. You know one of the things that he may have missed is the fact that, it’s probably a management issue that created our problem on Mauna Kea and we would like to not have that mind set move 15