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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting <br />Minutes – September 24, 2018 <br />and Kohala because the weather gave us that so we flew there. We’re <br />keeping a very close eye on a quarterly basis of where we’re seeing these <br />edges – particularly for Luku Ohia – less so for Huli Ohia. Luku Ohia is the <br />bigger concern. Right now on the Island on the east side of the Island for the <br />last year and a half the northern most Luku Ohia had been above <br />Laupahoehoe in the lands of Waipunalei. Recently, in July, when we flew the <br />area around Kalopa State Park and the Kalopa section of the Hamakua <br />Forest Reserve we saw some symptomatic trees there. We got on the ground <br />within the week and we sampled those trees and they came back positive for <br />Luku Ohia so now we have some in Kalopa and that’s a twelve mile distance. <br />We don’t see any inbetween. On the west side of the Island above Holualoa <br />Town is where we see the northern most extent of Luku Ohia and from there <br />south through Captain Cook and Kealakekua and scattered through South <br />Kona and in Kau and certainly into Puna and upper Puna in the forests of <br />Waiokele and upper Waiakea off of Stainback Highway we’ve got lots of Luku <br />Ohia in there. So the southern end of the Island has a lot of it to different <br />degrees of concentration but Puna is a really – it’s the exteme – no question. <br /> <br />NP: Right. I was just wondering if there’s a shift in the view of non-native trees as <br />a possible alternative for vegetation maybe not see it as so much an enemy <br />cause it’s better to have forest of some kind of vegetation than no vegetation. <br /> <br />SB: Absolutely, no question, but then we have to look at things like albezia and <br />that’s yet another extreme example, certainly, but, yeah, no... <br /> <br />NP: That is what’s there... <br /> <br />SB: ....in our watershed recharge areas forests of some kind – vegetative cover of <br />some kind or another properly managed is what we want to see and where <br />we have healthy ohia forest we’d like to maintain that clearly. <br /> <br />NP: So kill that albezia even though it’s the only trees that’ll live? <br /> <br />SB: I’m afraid so... That’d be my goal... <br /> <br />NP: So we’ll have nothing for the watershed then trees... <br /> <br />SB: Well, no, there’s lots of other cover besides the albezia trees... <br /> <br />NP: Wai wi? <br /> <br />SB: Yeah. Well, we’re not – that’s a non-starter right there. Wai wi is here to stay <br />\[unclear\]. <br /> <br />NP: Well, l’m just suggesting that there should be an open mind to things that will <br />grow... <br />15 <br /> <br /> <br />