2018-01-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2018 NP: So, Richard, I just wanted to point out something that you brought up – is underbrush from the lack of browsers/grazers makes bird hunting really a problem? RH: That’s another topic. The game bird hunting has been decreasing on this island for the last three years. I don’t know what cause that it – maybe fireweed... But the availability of game bird hunting area – that would need be an area that I can see my pointing dogs in – a pointing dog is no good if you can’t see it so and that kind of a land has been diminished due to the growth of brush for good or bad when there were sheep up there they kept the brush down. NP: \[Unclear\] Yeah. Thank you. TL: Any other comments, question from the public? Anything? If not, then we’re gonna move on to the third segment and that is that one of our agenda items for this year is a game management plan. Something that some of us had actually been working on for a number of years and... ORDER OF BUSINESS OLD BUSINESS 2010 Game Management Plan as reviewed by DLNR and returned to Hawai’i County GMAC TL: Since Mr. Hoeflinger is here tonight I may avail of him as well as we go through this here since he helped put this thing actually into print for us but a lot of you have heard about the Game Management Plan that we were having for the Big Island and not too many people have any idea of the background of how that Game Management Plan came to be. And that’s why we want to bring up tonight just a little bit – to give somebody a little bit of a history of how it got started and where it went because there’s been some comment about this Game Management Plan and I actually have a comment of my own, which we’ll get into, but, as Mr. Hoeflinger mentioned earlier all the loop holes – now this is a game management plant that everyone of the commissioners here has one of these manuals – just so that we can get an idea of what game management is actually supposed to be and there’s a lot of ways that you can identify game management but probably the most common in American, I mean, worldwide game management is pretty typical throughout the world and how they manage game – but we have the North American Management – no – wildlife management – and I’m not doing well tonight – this –but the – but all the loophole is a gentleman who is credited with starting the game management process and back in 2007 we had a meeting up in Waimea with Scott Fretz who was with DOFAW at the time and 14