2018-11-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 13, 2018 brah. Kaohe is over grown. I just like to say that, you know what I mean. I been bird hunting over 20 years – was easier before for hunt up there – the walking was easier – I understand, you know, but I tell you I just couldn’t say – no more the grazing animals up there already. The mountain is over grown. Me and him couldn’t even walk inside – we had to turn around. It’s not the kind like you guys can push ‘em on the side – this is thick, thick underbrush. I sorry – I feel little bit nervous I talking to everybody but we hunt bird every single year and the population for certain birds – plenty urkel but the quail, the chucker, the turkey – the population for some reason went down. Even when I look at the paper afterwards and \[unclear\] eh, brah. Only get one turkey – that’s real rare – but the mountain is overgrown badly. TN: Wallace, this is Teresa. WK: Yes. TN: When you bird hunting is Kaohe the only place you go to? WK: Sometimes we make our adventures right – we used to go from one side of the mountain we’d go right around the whole mountain – we’d the hunt the whole – we’d take the family – whatever... TN: Mauna Kea? WK: Mauna Kea – from Kanakaleanue side Kahinahina side we’d go around the mountain. I no do that anymore because no more bird. It’s what a waste gas, yeah, go around and then my wife say like you only wasting gas – you only come down with one bird the whole day. Before we used to catch one good supply, you know, for eat – whatever. And now I catch only one quail – I got to bring ‘em home gotta cook ‘em and there’s only one quail – you know. TN: And so what’s your reasoning – since you’ve been a hunter for twenty years – what’s your reasoning behind? WK: I’m sorry, excuse me. I’ve been hunting since I was one small – my father guys was hunters. My father used to hunt up there when we used to have to tag the sheep with the gold tags before – I mean, I used to see that mountain \[unclear\] with sheep up there before – which was bad. No conservation at that time – and no disrespect to the DOFAW or State – back then never had that type conservation where we needed for control the sheep – but the mountain was OK – I think, if I not mistaken, the decline of the palila bird is worse – when had sheep and compared to now back in ’87 – I watched that. I watched with a broken heart how they kill the sheep up there. I watched that. You know, some of the guys supposed to come they couldn’t make ‘em – a lot of them is hunting their whole life – their family’s hunters their whole life – I watched how they kill a sheep it’s... 19