2019 01-29 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – January 29, 2019 RK: There’s a lot of unsaid things in that one but there’s not – as far as the surveys go – there’s not a whole lot of animals that were in the outside areas – the mauka areas – as compared to the safety zone area... SM: On the Waimea side – last year – had plenty on the Waimea side…but this year I don’t see anything. RK: Right and wild dogs is a very huge thing there – not so much – I mean they do take adult ones – we’ve studied that quite a bit but they do take a lot of the young, so, you know, we see a degradation in the – you see only old animals left and you don’t see any young and the keiki and stuff like that and so there’s been predator control efforts and they’ve taken out quite a bit of ‘em and it has – I say this with caution – it has rebounded the population but understand when you rebound that population and you don’t have a plan that puts endangered species in context with it – together with it – that’s technically illegal – this is how our State – our high up in the State might view that – they might view that as a violation of the law – so this is why, I mean, this is why this Commission or even the State on was formed – to create game management plans and that plan is supposed to take into content all of the applicable laws and try to meet them and balance that out – and that’s what we’re trying to do. But, you know, that’s politics right there – that’s policy making so... But, yeah, I’d just like to stress that – the importance and priority of those things because if we continue down the status quo of not creating a structured way of how we deal with these things – how we meet all of the laws and this and that – the endangered species wins, I mean, that’s just the way it is – you’re gonna get more eradication if we don’t do something like that is mutually agreed upon so... I don’t know, I mean, that has implications with the previous testifiers – things about Mauna Kea – that’s the end, right, when you hit a court order now you’re kinda done, you know, it’s a lot of work to reverse something like that, so, before those things happen – is the reason why you need these management plans, so, I don’t know, that’s what – that’s all I’m working on State side – a lot of the other commission members other islands have – they have a bunch of other things they kind of get in the weeds with – like rules and what kind gun they can hunt with and all this other stuff but my priority focus is getting that plan done and it may come, I’ll admit it – it may come at the negligence of me not looking at the rule changes and all these other things that I kinda think are not as important but if that’s wrong than please let me know – but it’s just what I am doing. SM: Thank you for all you’re doing... NP: Thank you so much. It was very informative. BKK: Thank you Ryan, is there any other questions from the commissioners? 15