2018-07-02 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 2, 2018 private land – all in the papaya fields if they have access – do not have access permission – poaching – whatever – they still providing for their family. So just – that’s a big area for hunters, for providers, for gatherers that just totally got taken away and I, you know, listening to this and I feel very strongly that that’s why our predecessors were fighting against the fence and stuff like that because now you can go out and hunt up in Volcano, I mean, if they don’t have all these explosions and that’s making it dangerous – but let’s say if the volcano was erupting down in the lower Puna and no explosions up in Halemaumau – that animals would be a good sustainable source. If that place was actually safe to go and hunt and gather – where you could just go right there in the Volcano National Park and gather there. You get Kulani forest – Puumakaala – they fenced it off for the crows for the plants. Now, a lot of the deeper forest is inside those actually breeding grounds for the pigs and any other game animals that’s up there – even get goats – last year I was way, you know, Kulani buffer zone – up by the old boy’s school – and that area is totally pretty much fenced off. We was in the forest reserve land and we could actually hear the sheep and the goats in the forest. I was very surprised cause I thought it was only had pigs up there – but I was so high up where you could hear the sheep crying in the forest. So there’s other sustainable forests, I mean, sustainable animals just where I hunt that I didn’t know that they was there. Now is this all this fenced land that we cannot access and all this land that’s just been taken away but it’s natural disaster. So how can all this younger generation – teenagers to their early twenties – all this land that they just lost – where are they gonna get their other way to feed their families. They want substance that they could pick from. NP: Yeah, good point. AA: So it’s a real big concern that – like there’s a bigger land loss and all that other land that was already lost from the fencing and now we get this natural disaster – that’s just unbelievable. It’s just a concern... MH: So, we might have lost our feed to Kona so we’re trying to figure out – oh, they can hear – OK – so as long as they can hear us then we’re OK. I’m sorry, sir, we need to move on with our presentation with our next speaker – so if you’d like to speak after the speakers are done then you’re more than welcome to come up and speak at that time. RW: It was just one quick question and that was to work with Abraham here it would be really nice in our communities, because a lot of our communities in upper Puna in particular has a real pig problem – so we can work together on that. MH: Thank you. 23