2018-09-24 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – September 24, 2018 knowledge that was handed down – you would mark the trail – not by cutting a tree, though, you’d either put fallen sticks or rocks in such a manner that you could point your way back on the trail to go back where you came from. So maybe, yes, Antonio we could get together and talk about this with the hunters as to what best practices can be done. Thank you. SB: And we welcome – the outreach team – welcomes the opportunity to meet with – I know they did a number of meetings with hunting clubs that are around the Island and have done that and we’d happy to come and talk stories with your club once you guys get rolling again – happy to. One idea that somebody had which I thought was kinda good was using toilet paper – it’s white – it goes away after a while, right, yeah, so, not everybody’s carrying toilet paper around up there but on a rainy day it’s not gonna be very useful but looking for alternatives is certainly... TL: Well on the mainland I have a friend who has a tract of land that they leased to go hunting and they started and it’s fairly overgrown, too, but they were using spray paint to mark it and which may be a good idea – you’re not hurting anything but on the other hand if you don’t want your trail known it’s there and so they – I don’t know if they still do it... But the other thing that they were doing was to mark their territory of their land area with spray paint, you know, rather than fencing... SB: Their property boundary you mean? TL: Right and that’s where they got the idea from, you know... But the other thing about ribbons, too, ribbons is a mess in the forest, if you don’t pick up your ribbons on the way back out it’s really kind of unsightly. If I see a ribbon I just take it down – generally speaking – sorry if you were... ?: You da one, ah? TL: Anyone else have a question for Bill? NP: I do... TL: OK. NP: With Huli Ohia you say that one doesn’t necessarily kill ‘em it just kills parts of them but here in this brochure is says if you have an infected tree cut it down, burn it. Well, can they recover and someone cut it down when it actually could recover? SB: The ones – we recommend felling the tree and getting it on the ground because it may have the beetles in it but those are typically ones that are all completely gone. And Huli Ohia will kill the whole tree – it can do it in time. 13