2019 01-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2019 you’re getting paid to do it so to speak so... I think maybe, yeah, I see you guys down here I guess you guys probably don’t know that but just for a record, you know, if the public or anybody reads that – and wondering, wow, we’re wasting all this money- well, it’s not always theoretically the State’s money so maybe they don’t care so much. I don’t know. NP: Very educational. You covered all of my questions. RK: Also – the Puuwaawaa HCP – that plan since it’s been so long – Deputy Bob Matsuda had and with Kanalu – the West Hawaii Biologist – had – because it stalled with the specific committee to get the endangered species side done – you could maybe say endangered species folk don’t want to see your animals there in general so they don’t want to see the plan move forward but there was an alternative pose that maybe the DOFAW – Division of Forestry and Wildlife – can go to the Board the BLNR that approves plans for the State and suggest an alternative – the alternative being a management plan for the animals under the idea that the State has the prerogative to manage endangered plants and game species on State land instead of always having to ask somebody else for permission so that is current in the process, I guess they’re trying to figure out how that’s gonna be structured and told to the Board and then maybe getting – I believe they’re gonna get Board direction on it and also Attorney General direction as well, so this is something that they had talked about for a few meeting now and who knows – maybe around March or so we’ll see something come forward. NP: Nani here... Have you heard anything more about the fencing of the Hinahina area in Puuwaawwa? RK: The Henahena unit? NP: Henahena, yeah. RK: It’s like 900 acres – something like that – I don’t know – that – is there something specific you wanted to know cause as far as I know that unit – there’s probably some endangered individual species plants but it’s particularly was built for the cave system that is under it – how a fence protects a cave under it I don’t know but it is what it is. NP: My understanding is that they were preparing to fence that area? RK: I already saw the fence posts up. NP: So I was fortunate enough to take a tour up there and the only sheep we saw were in that area. 12