2017-11-8 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 8, 2017 Steve: I would agree with you – I think this is closest thing that I’ve seen to game management in my 28 years here... So Kanalu should be applauded for that. DY: How can we make sure that it continues as the Game Management Advisory Commission for the County – what kinds of things can we do to make sure that this effort continues? KS: I would say the first thing – probably the most simple thing - we need to garner a lot public support for the HCP because it’s not approved yet and so our comments that we had were few but most of them were positive but to continue to show that – especially for our board members and all of that – our last ESR \[unclear\], I mean, I know I’ve explained several times but we went to the ESRC in September and unfortunately we had no hunters there at the ESRC meeting – we did have one Earth Justice lawyer who made comments who not supportive of the plan – although we did have one other member of the public who was supportive – so if we want to start small scale I would say if you want to see the HCP be carried out and start to and progress that – that would be probably the easiest thing we can do – if you guys want to take this on to a larger scale and implement something like it on a statewide – so there’s a reason Dave said he wouldn’t do it is because it’s really hard – we’re fifteen-twenty years into this and, you know, I appreciate Steve saying applaud but I didn’t start this project – many other people started it before me and lucky – I get to pick it up – and I don’t know if it’s lucky cause it’s not going yet but – so there’s a reason Dave said – it’s not because David is not – it’s because it’s not easy – we’re twenty years into this – fifteen years – whatever – and it’s not done yet. So if you want to take that – the general idea that we have with the HCP and try to have more of that across the whole state that’s gonna be a larger thing probably on a political level. TL: You said that you had testimony from Earth Justice – where was that? KS: It was at the Endangered Species Recovery meeting we had in September where we presented our HCP to them again. TL: And if you were looking for support for something like that – I don’t even know what that was all about. I mean, you hear – we might hear that there’s this... KS: I will take responsibility for not getting word out as quickly as I should have – I did – I texted Ryan –but it was last minute. \[Discussion\] WJC: How do we convince the people in Honolulu to approach this HCP with the same enthusiasm as you guys have over here – because you guys over here is obviously trying to get this rolling but I did not get the same – I did not get 20