2017-11-28 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 28, 2017 TL: That’s what mentoring does. They’re going out – Ryan for example – if he wanted to take his neighbor or whatever – he’s gone through the hunter ed program – he’s gone through all the safety thing. You’re mentoring some child, or some youngster or some young adult – some new hunter – in the safety aspects of hunting. So they’re actually getting better training with a mentor than they are for the hunter Ed program. TN: I understand what you’re saying. And I agree with you but coming from the opposition that we’ve had for three years we’re gonna continue having the opposition because in their minds they need to go through some sort of program: safety class... TL: Anybody who wants a hunting license will have to go through the hunter Ed program. We’re not eliminating that at all. So the hunter Ed program, in my opinion, their argument is irrational, actually, in my opinion, especially since what this addresses is exactly what their conference was focuses on last year. The people we want to touch with this are who they’re saying we need to be touching those people. We were trying to get them for three years prior to that conference to do just that and it started off \[unclear\] he said no, you know, we’re gonna lose money – that was their first argument, but we’re gonna have – I mean there’s people that’s gonna be against us – we just have to do a better job of selling it and we have a new director for DOCARE right now – a guy named Robert Farrell and he ran the hunter ed program in California so we’re working with him also right now – we haven’t sent this to him yet, but we are going to – but this is one thing that I – this is my personal pet peeve – we need recruitment of hunters. NP: I get what Teresa’s saying that maybe the hunter education program would like to offer a mini-program – a mini-class for apprentices and maybe that would make them happy. It makes sense. TN: Yes, just a scaled down version. Just for safety’s sake though, we include them in this scenario. TL: They actually are included. TN: I understand, but it’s not written that they are in a mini-version of a safety class? TL: I understand what you’re saying – it’s just like right now we have an online course to take your hunter safety course. But you have to wait three months in order to get into class in order to actually get your license. So when are they gonna hold that mini class. 9