2018-11-13 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – November 13, 2018 NP: Whether that’s gonna be the answer for saving them, which is sort of the contradiction cause it’s so non-native – man-like... S: So this Stanley. So this place that you guys go mow is just the roads, right, cause you guys cannot get into the – I mean, is it... KS: Most of what we mow is the roads.... We’ve done some outside of the roads – not recently, though, and so... S: It’s Lau pasture, yeah? KS: I ask my guys to try to find areas where they can at least cut strips to help the hunters walk a little bit better and so in the next couple of weeks we should have somebody up there – like I said – at least once a week, um, I mean, it’s kinda the most I can commit my guys to. S: But that just going be Lau pasture, I mean, no place else, yeah? KS: There’s plenty of places to be cut in Lau pasture and I have only one machine – there may be access to others through, you know, work requests and things like that but it’s not the – it’s not something I would like tantaran – that’s the best thing for do – it’s just – it’s the only thing I can do for right now. S: What happened to the – when I was there – they was gonna bull doze wind rows in between, you know all in ‘Aumoa and everything with the bull dozer and then, you know, make strips so that you could mow those strips – what happened to that plan? I mean, this was in 90s so... JM: Joey Mello – East Hawaii Wildlife Manager – sorry, kinda looked at me for help but there is really no answer except compliance issues. As you recall, Stanley, back in the day we used to make an attempt to do some crop plantings and stuff like that and even a lot of that is very limited because of the compliance issues – both with the Fed – is the first thing, because we use federal money but like Kanalu said when we back off and say, hey, we’re only gonna use State money – wherever that might come from – because it’s easy to say that but we don’t know where the money would come from and the second problem is that the State has a very similar endangered species law. S: If they going with their thing with the game birds – that enhance game birds – that was the reason they were gonna bull doze ‘Aumoa, you know, in between and make wind rows and you mow in between the wind rows for the game birds but that never did come into play, I mean, this is... 26