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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – November 8, 2017 <br />SM: Stanley Mendez – hunter. When you talk about getting areas for us – more <br />areas for us to hunt – there was this Kipuka Ainahou, the Hawaiian Homes <br />took it back... <br /> <br />DS: Right. <br /> <br />SM: Citing that the beneficiaries wanted those lands back. Now that is almost like <br />one desert over there. That’s no good to anybody – cattle ranching or any in <br />Kipuka – but get 50 something thousand acres that is mauka and the state <br />cannot lease those lands for us to hunt because the beneficiaries doesn’t <br />want that but Nature Conservancy can rent those properties for plant trees <br />and whatever they want to do with ‘em but because that is state land how can <br />that happened that the DLNR cannot lease this land for hunting but yet <br />Nature Conservancy can get these lands and another question is when we <br />were told that the game to be – you cannot put any new game from outside of <br />the area until these fences are finished in Puuwaawaa. We can take game <br />from Puuwaawaa and put ‘em in Puuanahulu but we cannot bring game from <br />any other place and put ‘em in Puuanahulu. Why is that? What you’re doing is <br />just you’re taking game away from someplace and putting ‘em into one area <br />that you’re not enhancing the game – you’re not getting more game – you’re <br />just spreading the game around. <br /> <br />DS: We don’t control all state lands because DHHL is a separate entity. <br /> <br />\[Discussion\] <br /> <br />SM: It’s all DHHL. <br /> <br />DS: They’ve been taking back their lands. They’re doing it on Kauai too. The <br />beneficiaries want the lands... <br /> <br />SM: But it’s not going to the beneficiaries – it’s going to Nature Conservancy. <br /> <br />DS: I don’t know the details on that particular one but we do not control DHHL <br />lands. <br /> <br />TL: But he does bring up a point. We brought this up with Kanalu and about <br />managing in Puuwaawaa and Puuanahulu and my question there is that that <br />HCP is languishing and yet that is completed degraded land at Puuanahulu in <br />particular and it was actually classified as an area for game production so <br />why aren’t we able to take game from Mauna Kea like they did and had to put <br />‘em into Keamuku, which is military, because we didn’t have one acre that we <br />could take that animal and our question is what is the sense of that? <br /> <br /> So what is the point of the HCP in Puuanahulu – covered with endangered <br />species is what you’re saying. <br />9 <br /> <br /> <br />