State pays dearly for salvage of sheep from Mauna Kea hunts
- Author:
- Tummons, Patricia
- Title:
- State pays dearly for salvage of sheep from Mauna Kea hunts
- Periodical:
- Environment Hawaii
- Year:
- 2012
- Volume:
- 22
- Pages:
- 12
- Subject:
- Sheep Mauna Kea Palila Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
- Summary:
- This document describes the pros and cons with regard to doing state-sponsored aerial shooting of sheep and leaving the carcasses on Mauna Kea that results in a waste of meat as claimed by many hunters, or airlifting the carcasses to designated drop-off sites where people with salvage permits are allowed to pick up the carcasses, clean them, and deposit what they leave behind into a pit that would be provided by the Department of Forestry and Wildlife. While this program provides food for those who participate in the salvage program, it is felt that if the state did not have to spend a great deal of time and money in salvaging the carcasses from the aerial hunts, that they could further reduce the population of sheep on Mauna Kea which the state feels is not being accomplished due to the amount of time and effort that is being put into the salvaging program.
- Label:
- Animals - Sheep
- Date:
- February 2012
- Collection:
- Periodicals