Hi Cathy, I'll repeat: since you claim that killing feral predators is not the the answer, please provide a solution to the problem which does not include killing.

"Giving the public carte blanche" is an interesting comment for an American, because in America the public ARE the rulers, and public servants are supposed to be SERVANTS serving our pleasure, not some noble aristocrats who may or may nor deign to allow we peasants to take care of problems on our own.

In other words, we peasant have carte blanche to do anything we want to unless we accord our public servants authority to enforce general prohibitions.

I understand that runs diametrically opposite the ethos of Hawaii, which is gut level control freak aristocratic. That we elect our aristocrats does not change that. Hawaii state culture is utter control freak in every breath, as in Everything which is not explicitly permitted is prohibited. "Giving the public carte blanche" is utterly a Hawaiian objection.