2019 02-12 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – February 12, 2019 IC: No mammal hunting. No legal mammal hunting. AA: Not in the lower area. I guess up in the higher areas there’s hunting. TN: Thank you. AA: I’d like to tell the committee that I’ve been working with Ian a little bit in the last year and Joey Mello. They doing some work right now in tree planting road – cutting the sides of the road and fixing that road with a lot of damage from all the heavy rains and just overgrowth that was covering up the roads so they’re doing a pretty good job up there. I wouldn’t mind doing one drive through with you some time – we can go and check it out. IC: I’d like to sort of get a little bit of time on the machine so we can see what it looks like – I want to go see and take a look. AA: Also, I worked with Ian up in the Kulani in the higher area in the buffer zone area – we worked together and putting up a kiosk and just more informative – like who was hunting in that hunting area so all that helped – all that work was pretty good, I think. We got a more – at least me – I got a more open view of who’s actually in the area and can pass it on – once they go up there and get the information from that kiosk that we put – that they put up there. AA: Dustin... IC: Dustin. When these guys came to us it was very helpful cause they have like on the ground stuff that’s really easy – not really easy but it’s ideas that we can implement and a lot of these guys were – have been around a long time remember when \[sounds like Buffer\] was call in and that switched but they were trying to look for a solution to hunters stacking up on each other and that was easy for us to implement – but that’s kind of the thing – it’s helpful if people want to come talk to us and feel free at any one time to come talk to me or email me and set up a meeting and then we can – that kind of stuff is real easy to implement quickly and I think that shows good relations for sure – you know – rules changes – you guys ever want to see rule changes – they don’t happen quick at all, you know... AA: What I got from them from even when Joey was in there – rule changes takes quite some time. The other thing is – maybe in the next meeting you and your new partner can – Ian’s partner – maybe you guys can come to the next meeting and bring some better numbers of the game mammals up in Kapapala Ranch – be more ready next time – that’s one – the other one is with the lava down in District 4 and District 5 – what’s the status with Malama Ki Forest Reserve – like how bad is it – how bad did it get taken out – how’s the game in that area – do you have any info on that? 12