2018-01-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2018 originally – and those of you who have not read that plan – the original plan – you should. There’s a lot of history that every hunter in Hawaii should be aware of in that plan and I do thank Richard for some of the stuff that he dug out and there’s a lot of people that helped him that deserve a lot of credit for this, as well, but, they didn’t make any notation where changes were – they just gave it back to us – they essentially – a good word would be “butchered” and it’s incoherent and unreadable. You cannot look at that document and say this is a game management plan – it just does not exist in that document and, so, as a consequence, those of us that were involved in the original plan – myself as part of that and I’m sure Mr. Hoeflinger and others that have – do not want to put their name to that plan that the DLNR came up with – it’s an embarrassment – it really is – and, so, what we would like them to do and some of the things about it is a lot of politically correct stuff in there has no business being in a game management plan. We don’t need – we have enough – a lot of it is endangered species stuff that they tied into that plan, you know, we have the Hunter-Ed program \[unclear\] except endangered species, we have reams and reams and reams of publications that all talk about endangered species – nothing is talking about game management and we don’t need all this other propaganda in a game management plan – we need somebody to look at the management process – what do we have – what do we need and where do it and that is lacking in this plan that came from DLNR and some of the stuff that we want to have done requires DLNR to actually make an effort in determining what’s out there, you know, how much game do we have; where is the game; if there’s plant there what do we do with area in between the plant and so there’s a lot of problems with this thing and so, for myself, I believe, that we’re sending it back to them as is and we would suggest that because this plan is – this revised document is not the one prepared and submitted by the Game Management Plan Working Group – should not be referred to as such. And there’s another thing and Dave Smith was here earlier – did he leave? TN: This Game Management Plan that we’re sending back that you stated – is it a revised copy that you folks have been involved with or who has been involved with? TL: The revised copy is not a game management plan. What we would like DLNR to do is to sit down with us and go through this page by page. We would like them to sit down and say, OK, the first three pages are three areas of interest in the game management plan – we have this problem, we have this problem, we have this problem, we need to fix these... We would like to have a collaboration with DLNR. If they’re looking at it and wanting to revise it – we would like to have them revise it with us so that we know what they’re doing and do it in a concise manner is what we would like to have. That did not happen... 16