2018-01-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2018 general this would be the area that we’re talking about designating. The small square is the actual shooting area so that’s a hundred yard range and I know some folks would like a bigger range but for now I think 100 yards is a good compromise and it gives you a good place to site in your weapons and practice. And then that larger area is our safety zone. So we just took a mile basically behind the area – and if you’ve shot up there you know that there’s structure already there that would prevent a lot of the overshot of bullets but we still allowed a mile back behind the range in the direction of fire. And then here’s just the numbers – the actual numbers we’d be using this to designate the packet should the board decide to designate the area we’re gonna need to obviously have good markers and latitude and longitude for the particular area. That’s basically it – that was the mile marker 16 one. The Manuka one is very similar and then we had a little video kind of overshot of the particular area and the thing that is unfortunate when we can’t see the video is that you’ll see DOFAW has been cleaning up some of the mile marker 16 area and it looks really good. So that would be maintained, of course. Manuka doesn’t get that same treatment right now and you can see there’s a stark difference in the two ranges if you go to both of them in the amount of debris and junk so our hope is that all that would go away and that range would be properly maintained. People would be \[not clear – sounds like policing their brass, you know, removing targets and no longer using it as a dumping ground for old refrigerators and TVs and whatever other makeshift targets folks like to shoot at. TN: Teresa from Kona. We can’t see any map of Manuka area. Are you posting it? RF: No. We took that down because the area that we had initially designated and in consulting with the Attorney General’s Office and internally, some of the area may be not able to be converted as readily as Mile Marker 16. So I deleted that particular portion of the presentation because I want to make sure that we’re able to do what we need to do within that area so the reason you’re not seeing Manuka is because it’s not being presented right now. WJC: This is Willie-Joe. Will there be a staff to oversee the area? Or will the people run it how it is now where you just go and do your own thing. RF: That’s a great question and it is part of the kind of progression of where we want to go. Right now, we want to designate the area as the area – so worst case scenario we put up a couple signs with some operating hours – we put up some trash cans up there – maybe a lua or two and we’ll try and work it that way. Up until such time as we identify where we want to go – what the proper management – if it gets developed into a range with, shooting stations and a range master – a sign-in and sign-out – those are all things that can happen there but for now we want to try and designate the area so that we’re not coming up against this enforcement of the hunting rules... 4