(ABOVE PHOTO) The view from the Mauna Kea Access looking towards Mauna Loa, photo taken earlier in 2014

NEWS BRIEFS

• ON THE AGENDA: The Mauna Kea Management Board meets today (Tuesday, November 25) from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at 640 N. A’ohoku Place in Hilo. New business on the agenda is a Submillimeter Array request to install, repaint and re-label a fuel leak sensor to its existing underground piping, as well as a request to install a supplemental cooling unit and associated refrigerant and electrical conduit for their computer room. There will also be reviews of the Maunakea Invasive Species Management Plan and the Update to Maunakea Comprehensive Management Plan.
  

  LINK: MKMB AGENDA for Nov. 25

• SUMMIT WEATHER: According to the Mauna Kea Observatories Forecast, skies will remain predominately clear. Summit temperatures will be near 33 degrees, “with winds from the west at 20-35 mph for this evening, dimishing to 10-20 mph through the night”. The Mauna Kea Access Road is open (9:30 a.m. HST).
• HUNTING AT PTA ON THANKSGIVING: Army officials are opening several training areas for bird hunting at Pohakuloa, on Thanksgiving Nov. 27, from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. There will also be bow hunting allowed on Friday. Details below.

HUNTING AT PTA ON THANKSGIVING

U.S. Army Garrison media release: Bird hunting on Thanksgiving

Army officials are opening several training areas forbird hunting, here, Nov. 27, from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Training areas 1-4, 9-16 and the Keamuku Training Area will be open for shotgun hunting of birds only. Use of shotgun slugs is not permitted.

All hunters must check in and check out at one of the following hunter’s check-in stations: Kilohana, located on Saddle Road between mile markers 43 and 44; Pu’u Huluhulu, located at the intersection of Mauna Kea Access Road and Saddle Road near mile marker 28; or Pu’u Anahulu, located on Mamalahoa Highway (Hwy 190) across from mile marker 15. Checkout time is no later than 7 p.m. each day.

Hunting passes will be provided at the check-in stations beginning Wednesday after 5 p.m. These passes must be signed and placed on the vehicle’s dashboard. Hunters who do not have a signed hunting pass on their dashboard will be barred from hunting for 30 days.

Hunter access to training areas is as follows:

• Areas 1-4: Through any of gates 1-10 on East Saddle Road, east of Pohakuloa’s main gate.
• Areas 10 and 11: Through any of gates 1-7 on West Saddle Road, west of Pohakuloa’s main gate.
• Areas 9 and 12-16: Through Ahi Gate, near mile marker 38.5, on West Saddle Road.
• Keamuku: Through gates 2, 7 and 10 on Old Saddle Road or gates 11 and 14 on Mamalahoa Highway.

Hunters are required to park in designated parking areas. Firearms, alcoholic beverages, all terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and/or recreational vehicles are not allowed in the training and hunting areas.

Hunters with disabilities can call Officer Brian Mabry at (808) 969-2429 for assistance.

For more information, call the PTA Hunter’s Hotline at (808) 969-3474, visit garrison.hawaii.army.mil/pta and click on the “Hunting” tab, or refer to instructions on the hunting pass.U.S. Army Garrison Pohakuloa Training Area on Nov. 24, 2014

U.S. Army Garrison media release: Bow hunting on Friday

Army officials are opening several training areas for bow hunting, here, Nov. 28, from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Training areas 1-4, 9-16 and the Keamuku Training Area will be open for bow hunting of mammals only. Hunters are allowed one pig, one goat and one sheep, per day, in keeping with state bag limits. Shooting sheep with blue collars is not permitted.

All hunters must check in and check out at one of the following hunter’s check-in stations: Kilohana, located on Saddle Road between mile markers 43 and 44; Pu’u Huluhulu, located at the intersection of Mauna Kea Access Road and Saddle Road near mile marker 28; or Pu’u Anahulu, located on Mamalahoa Highway (Hwy 190) across from mile marker 15. Checkout time is no later than 7 p.m. each day.

Hunting passes will be provided at the check-in stations beginning Thursday after 5 p.m. These passes must be signed and placed on the vehicle’s dashboard. Hunters who do not have a signed hunting pass on their dashboard will be barred from hunting for 30 days.

Hunter access to training areas is as follows:

• Areas 1-4: Through any of gates 1-10 on East Saddle Road, east of Pohakuloa’s main gate.
• Areas 10 and 11: Through any of gates 1-7 on West Saddle Road, west of Pohakuloa’s main gate.
• Areas 9 and 12-16: Through Ahi Gate, near mile marker 38.5, on West Saddle Road.
• Keamuku: Through gates 2, 7 and 10 on Old Saddle Road or gates 11 and 14 on Mamalahoa Highway.

Firearms, alcoholic beverages, all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and/or recreational vehicles are not
allowed in the training and hunting areas.

For more information, call the PTA Hunter’s Hotline at (808) 969-3474, visit garrison.hawaii.army.mil/pta and click on the “Hunting” tab, or refer to instructions on the hunting pass.U.S. Army Garrison Pohakuloa Training Area on Nov. 24, 2014