2018-11-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 13, 2018 KS: But I know part of his – I’m just saying the bird surveys that we did couple weeks ago or a month ago or whatever it was – that came from admin and so I don’t know if that’s the only thing he has planned but I do know it’s something that he supported and something that we... TL: Speaking of which and I don’t know if it was Allen or Brian Ley that I talked to but they came across some pig traps that had two pigs in it.. Who checks those traps? KS: I know some of the traps – so all of the traps have a – I’m pretty sure all of the traps have an automatic – the gate automatically closes if you send like a test message to tell the gate to close and so they have cameras on them that will take pictures and send a text message but who checks the traps is the Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Program – the workers in that program check the trap. TL: The Mauna Kea Reforestation... KS: Mauna Kea Forest Restoration Program - MKFRP. They’re the ones that check the traps. TL: Well, they also found some bones of animals that had expired over there. KS: Yeah, so what they do is when they go and check the trap and they kill the animals and they leave them in there as bait for the next animals that come – that’s their strategy for – that’s not the only way that they bait – but if they do catch something then they’ll kill the animals and leave it in there for bait for the next pigs. I was a little late on that one – cause I also saw maybe four traps that had pig’s in ‘em and I actually offered them to our hunters that were assisting with us – but like I said, I was a little late – I texted the manager and I said, eh, is it OK if we go up there and get those pigs – he’s like, brah, you should have told me earlier cause I just – they day we were there later in the afternoon his guy went up and killed them so we missed out. It’s not like a long term whatever it is – it’s just something I wanted to try to do for the guys that were helping us out and like I said I went and contacted them a little too late. TN: Back in October you folks had a counting project – what was the outcome of the counting project? KS: We don’t know yet. So, we walked – so the idea behind it was to compare certain methods between just walking a transect without a dog and then walking transects with dogs. So we were comparing between two different survey methods – so we doubled up on surveys for 56 kilometers so 56 transcets – one kilometer transects that we walked both with and without 23