11-01-2012, 04:02 AM
One of the reasons to have a license... There are ways for those with hunting licenses to open many of the gates...however SOME of the gates are to deter prey that the hunters are after & are not open to hunters (the ones in the ungulate EXCLUSION areas that are not supposed to have any of these ungulates.
The hunting license here give the hunter some benefits, and hunters that do register their catch provide a very important conservation tool. When you read other threads about how to get rid of pigs in the garden, realize that this is not a big problem for most states....
Every time I see feral pigs & goats gazing along the highway RIGHT IN Hilo, I realize how lucky hunters here are... many of the areas I have lived, you would only find prey out in the open right after corn harvest....& have to trudge through hundreds to thousands of acres to get a shot at the prey... nothing like here, where they are out in the roadway & in peoples yards & such! Oh, and most public lands there were completely restricted from hunting , with very fines (like $1,000 or more)
There are a very small handful of hunters that still will cut open the ungulate exclusion fences & bash the gates, costing all of us much to try to protect remnant habitat that remains from the time when the law of the kapu controlled those that did not like the traditional hunting/gathering rights set forth by the ali`i...
The hunting license here give the hunter some benefits, and hunters that do register their catch provide a very important conservation tool. When you read other threads about how to get rid of pigs in the garden, realize that this is not a big problem for most states....
Every time I see feral pigs & goats gazing along the highway RIGHT IN Hilo, I realize how lucky hunters here are... many of the areas I have lived, you would only find prey out in the open right after corn harvest....& have to trudge through hundreds to thousands of acres to get a shot at the prey... nothing like here, where they are out in the roadway & in peoples yards & such! Oh, and most public lands there were completely restricted from hunting , with very fines (like $1,000 or more)
There are a very small handful of hunters that still will cut open the ungulate exclusion fences & bash the gates, costing all of us much to try to protect remnant habitat that remains from the time when the law of the kapu controlled those that did not like the traditional hunting/gathering rights set forth by the ali`i...