2018-07-02 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 2, 2018 way back then to now that’s what we do and now if all this taken away from us, you know, where they going so... DK: I live in Hilo but my family all over Kau and Kalapana wherevers and that’s all we do is – they go South Point and hunt wherever they can go hunt, you know, and now get all the fencing and all over so it’s hard – they have to go sneak here and there just to feed their families, you know, and... NP: So you are a part of history in Kau as hunter or relative of? DK: I was a hunter and I did all this myself back then to now, you know, for how we teach our family. NP: Do you know any of the history of Kahuku Ranch? DK: I’m not really in the history but its just that went out and feed our family and whatever so you know we’re not really, you know, all we thinking about is just going here and there and just feeding family and the history and, you know, I’m one Hawaiian, you know, and my trying – I don’t know how for speak or whatever but I just trying to make, ah, for my children, my grandchildren and that’s where and that’s what they do – I just wanted to show this picture and that’s what they do cause I used to work up at Volcano National Park in Resource Management and all those and I know what she talking about cause we was hunting all the goats and the pigs and gunning ‘em all down – killing ‘em all – eradicating ‘em all and hunting. We’d go out with the dogs and whatever and hunt ‘em and we catch one – the goat – put the strap around – let ‘em go – we find ‘em – go down the road – we track ‘em down – oh, OK, we rode up our horses or whatever – the choppers \[unclear\] – killing ‘em all – eradicate ‘em all. Try not to kill the one with the strap but at’s what we used to do – that’s why I know, you know, what’s going on in there – but I just worried about now with my kids and my grandchildren and all this, you know, cutting off the tract – you the going – you cannot go here you cannot go there... TL: And what DLNR and the federal government and USDA and these other folks are doing is actually getting rid of a resource and they’re doing it without involving you, really... And it’s a huge concern of ours and it’s one of the things that we’re battling in and fighting for very strongly. DK: And there’s a lot kids – my nephews – nineteen, eighteen – and they get kids already and they young, seventeen, fifteen – they get kids already and they got to go out there and feed the kids, you know, and without all this resource they’re stuck, you know, just thank you guys… 21