2018-11-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 13, 2018 TN: How you feel inside as to why you feel the bird population is not there and the various chuckers and quail – they’re not there anymore. Habitat plays a big role in their repopulating themselves... WK: I feel after hunting for so many years and we walked – a little bit momona now – can’t walk too far but – what I see is that a lot of feeders that they’ve - traps that they’ve set for the cats – I stay at Mauna Kea State Cabins – I come out night time – I send the light – cats all over that place, so, decline of the birds – the cats get plenty – I can just come up and say that – cats get plenty problem – I see them up in the tree. I shoot ‘em the cats when I can – cause get rid of the feral cat, yeah? I don’t think so the mongoose too much but the feral cat – that thing can climb up, yeah. The taking out of the grazing animals – I understand that the bird – I like say – we all the hunters we like save these birds – we like save whatever can – I no like see the bird disappear too because, eh, I born and raised over here. But by taking out all the sheep from the mountain it’s getting bad now. Fire hazard one of ‘em. The underbrush is so thick that certain birds just getting hard time. The water feeders that the State put out sometime – we go up there hunt every weekend for the whole three months until the Martin Luther King weekend – no more water inside, you know, I climb inside, I dredge ‘em up with own shovel because no more water – the birds no even come to the feeders and the traps – they not set. Every weekend I walk past the same place – we walk, go look – the traps not set. TN: The traps are for the feral... WK: The cats KS: We don’t trap while in bird season. TN: Could you do yourself a favor when you go up there and you see the degradation of the area, you know, it’s not pono... Could you take videos? And documents these things because we need facts and we cannot just wala’au over here and kukakuka like that... From what it was before and how you feel is important to us. WK: Oh, it’s different, I mean, I can honestly say I been one small boy hunt with my father up – yeah, before days was bust up – the sheep had too much. But I believe in control – not eradication. This is one slaughter now going on up there because – this is how I feel – the mountain – you took – they take the grazing animals out of here – just like you’re taking the sharks out of the 20