2018-07-02 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – July 2, 2018 – and so the National Park Service is one of those agencies under the umbrella of the Department of Interior and the purpose of the Department of the Interior is really to protect and manage the nation’s natural and cultural resources. We provide scientific and other information about those resources and honor the trust responsibilities or other special commitment that to American Indians, Alaska natives and affiliated island communities. The U.S. Forest Service, on the other hand, is a part of the Department of Agriculture and not part of the Interior Department and they have a different focus of intent for their lands that they manage so... And this statement here is that the Park Service, which employees park rangers – is interested in the preservation of land in its natural state and that’s a primary piece of any Park Service legislation – so when you’ll see that in the Organic Act that we that is – that was passed 24 days after Hawaii Volcanoes became a park there was actually the Organic Act came a little bit later for the Park Service as a whole. So and the language that is in the Organic Act really mimics what was in the enabling legislation for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park – so when you see the Organic Act – it’s very familiar – you read through it and so you’ll see the same kind of language used for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park or Hawaii National Park at the time. th So as we progressed into the early part of the 20 century there were a number of acts of congress – these are bills that have to go forward and have to be vetted through congress in order to be implemented within the state. For our part – we can start off with the Act o 1920 and then early on these are acts that identified specific land pieces to become – to be included in the Park itself and so over this last century a number of these acts were introduced for various reasons and I’m gonna give you a few of those reasons here. So early on, you know, the area surrounding the summit was an area used for grazing animals. A number of ranches were in the neighborhood and landowners – Bishop Estate and others – other lands that were leased from Bishop Estate and managed by individual, private entities – at that time allowed leases to be held by individuals who managed large tracts of land that eventually were included in the Park. So Ainahou is one of those examples – but that didn’t come to us until the 70s. So this included land where Kilauea Military Camp is and I’m not sure if you knew that that particular parcel of land was originally Bishop Estate and it came to the National Park Service in 1922. So by 1930 we have – this is a particular interest – this particular act by the time that it was modified over the years and implementation went into the 60s basically for this particular act and it included language to allow adjacent community members access to the Park lands in Puna – later referred to as the Kalapana Extension. And the individuals that were living in that area of Puna – adjacent to the Park – had special commitments – the federal government made special commitments to them and they were identified in the act – so individuals from that community who have maintained a residence in Puna maintained their special relationship and special status within the Park. So this allows some of those 5