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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – July 2, 2018 <br />LS: Well, it may not be completed yet, but we do have fences. We have fences <br />along the boundaries and there were fences there when we acquired the <br />property and so we had them... <br /> <br />NP: Do you know what method of eradication they’re doing? <br /> <br />LS: I think they’re having community hunting as well... <br /> <br />NP: Is there helicopter shooting? <br /> <br />LS: Not that I’m aware of. <br /> <br />NP: They’re just rounding up with ground troops. <br /> <br />LS: They’re on their feet. <br /> <br />NP: Are they taking every single one? <br /> <br />LS: The Mouflon there – there’s some really interesting biology that has been <br />done on that Mouflon. I’m not sure after you read it you’d want to eat it so... <br /> <br />NP: The concern is now these fences are in there completing a circle around the <br />whole – so it’s interfering with migratory patterns of our remaining game <br />resources. They’re migratory animals – so that’s a real concern for our natural <br />resource... <br /> <br /> We don’t understand why they can’t give passage to migratory animals so <br />that they can find good foraging and survive well. When they can migrate they <br />do less damage to the native species, you know, they keep moving so that’s <br />just as sad thing that that’s over looked. <br /> <br />LS: As I tried to show the purpose of the national parks and the preservation effort <br />– that’s pretty much where we are. <br /> <br />NP: We were voted by the people of Hawaii as a commission to protect our game <br />resources and in one of our missions we’re to protect traditional, cultural <br />gathering rights along with protecting our game resources. So we also have <br />our job to do which should be recognized - so appreciate that... <br /> <br />RW: OK. My name is Rick Wirick. I’m actually running for County Council District 5 <br />– I’ve got some questions related to this – I have worked for the national park <br />service as well as the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and I’ve been able to see <br />the difference between the two agencies. In this particular case – as I’m <br />listening to the testimony or history – it looks to me like it was the Governor of <br />the Territory of Hawaii who originally turned this over to the National Park <br />Service. It appears to me, especially with the traditional hunting and fishing <br />9 <br /> <br /> <br />