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Updated at 4:02 p.m., Thursday, November 1, 2007

Leeward game management areas open for bird hunts

Advertiser Staff

The Department of Land and Natural Resources has opened the Kuaokala game management area and Makua-Kea'au public hunting area for the scheduled 2007 game bird hunting season, which begins Saturday.

The Kuaokala game management area will be opened to Kealia Trail. Any activity beyond the Kealia Trail in the Mokule'ia forest reserve is off-limits. There will be no camping, hiking, or four wheel-driving permitted in the Mokule'ia forest reserve.

DLNR's O'ahu branch Division of Forestry and Wildlife is advising hunters to exercise extreme caution when entering these areas during bird season in the Kuaokala game management area and Makua-Kea'au public hunting area.

Fire hazard in these areas is still a threat due to drought-like conditions.

DLNR officials declared the fire in the Kuaokala Forest Reserve, which restarted last week, to be extinguished and controlled as of noon Tuesday. DLNR personnel from the Division of Forestry and Wildlife and the Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement will closely monitor and check hunter activity.

The following forest reserves, which were closed by DLNR on Sunday, remain closed to public activities: Kuaokala, Mokule'ia, Wai'anae, Wai'anae Kai and Nanakuli Forest Reserves.

For additional information on forest reserve areas that remain closed, and the bird hunt in the game management areas, call 973-9785.