the forest. the nation's watched the recent tragedies in colorado at the hyde park fire is the amount on that i saw in the denver post yesterday was $450 million in private property lost as well as loss of lives. current federal regulations fail to recognize the importance of the forest regarding water conservation, water supply, wildlife habitat, recreation economic benefit and multiple uses and environmental health. h.r. 6089 improve the safety and strength and stewart ships. this bill extends stewardship beyond the current healthy forest restoration act and has a 20 year life and gives the ability to expedite and improve the hazards fuel reduction also gives us the ability to manage and restore the forests. this bill empowers the government state and local communities to designate and cooperate with federal land managers to the emergency hazardous fuel reduction project and also gives a benefit to our federal land managers and other tools for them to work with our local communities. the bill s

our forests. the nation watched the recent tragedies in colorado in the wallow kinnan and hide park fires. as on the denver post yesterday at $450 million in private property laws as well as lots of lies. current federal regulations fail to recognize the importance of our forests regarding water conservation, water supply, recreation, economic asset and multiple uses and environmental health. h.r. 6089 improve safety and strength and stewardship. this bill expands stewardship beyond the current healthy forest restoration act and not the 20 year life. he gives us the ability to expedite hazardous fuel, reduction is also gives us the ability to manage and restore forests. this bill empowers the governor and state and local communities to designate and cooperate with federal land managers to develop emergency hazardous fuel reduction projects and also gives the benefits were federal land managers, another tool to work with local communities. the bill supports an emerging forest restoration industry,

forest. last year communities for big bands to the largest forest fires in recorded history. it grew to over 800 square miles of are just few weeks, trying to make some of the largest ponderosa country. the murphy complex, stanley fired monument higher with the 200,000 acres. this year's season has not been much better. over 900 fires have charred nearly 6000 square miles in arizona, california, nevada company mac sukkot in utah and over 50,000 of those acres are in arizona alone. it is clear the process of planning in the study and, consulting, killing and collaborating are fooling in our forests. the frequency and magnitude of the acreage are increased markedly since 1990. the five largest wildfires in my state's history, radio in 2002, cave creek in 2005 in berlin 2004 in aspen in 2003 and now the wall of fire have occurred in the last 10 years. prior to 1990, the largest was the careers of fire in 1970, which burned 57,000 acres. our ecosystems are suffocating graeber once had hundreds. 8

for armando del arca hanamani, the rain forest means everything. >> the rain forest is my life.t is where we get our medicine, our sued. we use the wood for various things, for furniture and our homes. for us, it is like family. it gives us life, water, clean air. r for us, all of that is part of our life. >> there was a rubber boom in peru one century ago, but trade dried up. now, indigenous people have begun to harvested to make latex. it is part of a project meant to help the locals secure income, an alternative to drug problems. half of 1 million hectares of forest has been protected, almost half the size of the island of cyprus. from here, there is the rubber industry. the development agency, giz supports 13,000 people in the amazon with financial aid and training. >> natural rubber makes sense because there is a market issue in peru. those that use it currently buy it in cyprus and guatemala. -- malaysia and guatemala. they can save on the duties that drive up costs. >> the german exports -- experts are not working in the rain forest. they also want government officials wh

most 15 years ago the forest service began reviewing the management of forests in rural areas. in 2001, the chief issued regulations to protect these areas and recognized one of the most for-reaching [unintelligible] after a decade of litigation, -- that bill picklers the whole national forest service in danger -- the poorest service -- the fiorest service picklers all -its new hub- >> reviewed by the courts. there are 58 million acres. under the strategy identified across the the area, and in the state of idaho, and one is under way for the state of colorado. in the case of high priority need for fuels treatment and fire risk, the majority of those acres are outside japan roadless areas, and so we think we can abide by the provisions of the conservation rules and work on forced restoration where it is needed in priority landscapes. >> let me get back to my question. the declaration of 6089 the call last the entire system in imminent threat, thus, this declarations, section 3, -- [unintelligible] >> i believe it would. >> thank you. mr. roberson, your testimony points out [unin

forest service does when it comes to fighting forest fires. how much does the federal government get involved? >> guest: the u.s. forest service is one of five different agencies that actively involved in dealing with wildland fire spruce throughout the years. the agencies with the department of interior, commerce, fema, and also at times the department of defense, also play a very significant role. this is in conjunction with our partners from the states, the counties, and local fire. so what it takes all of us working together to be able to be as effective as we are to deal with the number of wildland fires this year. >> host: how has the fire season been this summer? where are the hot spots? >> guest: we're continuing to have above average fire season through the central part of the west, colorado, utah, southern idaho, and we expect that's going to continue throughout the rest of the summer, and then as the fire season progresses we can expect an increase california and probably up into oregon this year. >> host: what -- saw fires in color

forest service.irst, a news update from c-span radio. >> the suspected gunman in the colorado theater shooting has his first court appearance today. he will be advised of the charges against an. authorities say james holmes has not been cooperating in the investigation and the motive in the attack that killed 12 people is still not known. turning to syria, a foreign ministry spokesman is admitting the country has chemical weapons, the says they will never be used against their own people. a spokesman says the stockpiles are secure and that syria would only use them against foreign attackers. back in washington, the world's largest aids conference has just begun. researchers, doctors, and patients are urging the world government to not cut back on the fight against the epidemic, which they say is that a turning point. the conference is live on c- span2. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> watch book to be an american history to be the week of august 4 and 5 as c-span local conte

the forest recovers.hen a fire hits these treated areas, it drops out of the treetops and it gets down on the ground down then firefighters can be much more effective with their suppression. the difference we saw there is that when we did the treatments, the firefighters were able to stop the fire before it came in to the subdivisions and thousands of homes were saved because of the treatment that was done prior to the fire. host: here is another example of a treated and untreated area. what does the treatment mean? guest: it is thinning out the forest. getting in there and removing some of the smaller diameter material. it is to reduce the density said that we have at your trees per acre so that when a fire get started and it gets up into the top of the trees, it cannot spread from tree to tree. there is space between the crown. that is what naturally would occur throughout the west. and it's the difference we're seeing today. many of these stands have a lot more trees per acre than what would naturally

of forest.but more than 80 million acres needs treatments. rnny ecologists would like to see more controlled burns, fires intentionally set and monitored doat mimic those historic fires. so why doesn't that happen? >> a lot of it has to do with politics. you have the recreation people, the fishery people, the wildlife pleple. and all these people have to come together and agree before anything can get done on the ground. es.pelley: you say the forest service is trying to clean up four million acres. it doesn't sound like much. >> reporter: well, that's right. they've got over 80 million acres of federal forest land that is at risk of wildfires. >> pelley: what are they doing $4ut that? >> reporter: they have this new $40 million a year program that is heading them in the right direction. it is a corporate program that brings in lots of people to do two things, thinning of forests and doing some controlled burns. but as one put it to me, it is like trying to take a nibble out of the foot of alan

forest service.t spends billions fighting fires, often straying chemicals right near the fire, fire retardants that are supposed to slow its spread. given that fighting fires is what they do, i would think they would be careful to use the right fire retardant. but do they? it's one bureaucracy. how often does government adopt the latest techniques for anything? not often. so i'm not surprised that peter cordonnie says he has a better flame retardant, used by more than 200 fire departments, but not the forest service. ed clineman used to work for the forest se works for peter. peter, you are an inventer, you make soil enhancers. >> all life-saving products. we don't make luxuries. we saw the need for it. -- >> how did you discover this? >> 10 years ago, i was fooling around, working on another project and i stuck my hand in it and i put it -- >> you stuck your hand -- >> it felt cool. >> i showed it to some people and i put it on an ice cream stick and i tried to light it. it went from there. we start

forest service.t spends billions fighting fires, often straying chemicals right near the fire, fire retardants that are supposed to slow its spread. given that fighting fires is what they do, i would think they would be careful to use the right fire retardant. but do they? it's one bureaucracy. how often does government adopt the latest techniques for anything? not often. so i'm not surprised that peter cordonnie says he has a better flame retardant, used by more than 200 fire departments, but not the forest service. ed clineman used to work for the forest service, but now he works for peter. peter, you are an inventer, you make soil enhancers. >> all life-saving products. we don't make luxuries. we saw the need for it. -- >> how did you discover this? >> 10 years ago, i was fooling around, working on another project and i stuck my hand in it and i put it -- >> you stuck your hand -- >> it felt cool. >> i showed it to some people and i put it on an ice cream stick and i tried to light it. it went fro

forest service.chemicals right near the fire, fire retardants that is supposed to slow its spread. that is what the forest service does. i would think they would use the right flame retardant but do they? how often does governmental adopt the latest techniques for anything? how often does government change at all? not often. so i'm not surprised that peter says he has a better flame retard achbt one that now used by more than 200 fire departments but not the forest service. ed used to work for the forest service but now he works for peter. you make soil enhanceers. >> all life saving products we develop. we don't make luxuries. we saw the need for it. we're the only product that works efficiently today. >> john: how did you discover this? >> ten years ago i was fooling around and i stuck my hand in it and that is how i came about. >> john: so itself cooled. >> i put it on ice cream stick and tried to light it. we started showing it to fire departments. different people that had the knowledge. you may

forest service.s billions fighting fire with chemicals near the fyhrie retardants that are supposed to slow the spread. given that fighting the fires is what the forest service does. i would think they would be careful to use the right flame retardant. but do they? it is one more government bureaucracy after all. who o how often do they do the latest how often does it change at all? not often. i am not surprised peter cordoni says he has a better flame retardant one that is used by more than 200 fire departments but not the forest service. ed klein man used to work for the forest service but now he works for peter. you are an inventor you make soil enhancers it is not your normal business. >> all life saving products we use. the only product that works efficiently today unfortunately. >> how did you discover this? >> about ten years ago i was fooling around in another project i stuck my hand in it put it on an i say cream stick. >> it felt cool. >> i showed it to people i put it on an i say cream sti

very proud of that forest.n you think of mount davidson, on one side it's scrub and things are dry. you look on the other side of it, it's wet, it's moist, with all this aroma, wonderful trees, a good variety of trees. birds. berries, and it's getting -- it's starting to change. some of these trees, they're getting cut down. wonder who's doing it? and then i find out about two and a half months ago that there's this organization, n.a.p. that has a sort of a mission to change things back the way they were say 150 years ago, 140 years ago. and this whole idea about pesticides -- i had an experience with that in the schools where they zeeds -- decided to go ahead and splash it around the corners of the room and it was coming from the district and they told us not to use that around kids. 72 hours and they were using it. i don't trust anybody who's walking around with chemicals on their back. and my last comment that i want to make is if you have five trees and you take them down it might be because you're interest

carl ashort, urban forester. this slide shows some of the issues that are -- some of the factors with the ficus trees. all the trees have sustained some limb loss. these problems are typical to the species. it makes them prone to losing large limbs. two of the three have sustained some major root loss. significant trees are tree is located on private property, or on a dpw-owned property. they must meet any one of three sides criteria. street trees are in the trees located in the public right of way. all street trees are protected. the protection is not different between street trees and significant trees. the code requires that the director look specifically at seven criteria when approving the removal of significant trees. street trees, that is not called up for street trees. this is a very common mistake. the real problem with preservation of the trees is that it is very hard to protect trees during construction. in this case, the necessary -- regardless of how careful the project is, the necessary impacts to t

you may send out the forest, develop a space between the forest and people's homes of the homes do not we have seen in colorado springs. those programs as well as a program for putting out fires when they do occur have both been cut this year. that will have a pretty devastating attack. there are many people really worried about that. >> christian parenti, you spoke about the effects of rising wheat prices. one of the affects of the fires in the heat wave in the floods in the u.s. is likely to be a dramatic increase in the price of corn, wheat, and soybean. what do you think will be the global consequences of the increase in these commodities will be? >> it will probably be compounded by speculation. in situations like this people increase the price even further -- 9 >> explained. >> the second largest commodity trading company in the world. they are involved in mining and buying and selling agricultural commodities like wheat and soybean. what that will mean in the global south is that people such as egyptians who pay 40% of their wages in food will be pressed to the wall. we will see

right in the middle of the rain forest. home to thousands of animal and plant species. some of them endangered. >> ifill: and we close with a mystery about an electric guitar that just might be the same one bob dylan played at the 1965

the urban forester as did their job -- forester's did their job. i guess they have been damaged, so they will be removed. for 701 lombard, there is an inherent conflict of interest. the project planner work under the department of public works director. he is the one who signed the order to demolish the trees. in december 2010, dpw urban forester reported the three ficus trees did not warrant removal. we are requesting a fair, independent public process to evaluate the trees in compliance with the urban forestry ordinance in article 16 of the public works code. the order needs to be overturned, otherwise, this president would allow all mature trees to be removed -- precedent would allow all mature trees to be removed for convenience. president hwang: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners, members of the public. i'm the program manager for the branch library improvement program. i will focus on the library project. i will be placing several slides on the overhead projector. this one is the master plan. as background, the new north beach librar

all the foresters have always made me save the trees. saving trees -- there are a lot of ways to do. i think i would have rather been a truck driver driving one of those big semis to deliver the palm trees to the embarcadero. the embarcadero needed big trees to make it work as a great avenue. so does columbus avenue. the amount -- it is really interesting to watch the big trees being delivered. obviously, you can take these trees, which are not that big, set them in the parking area, put them back after construction. or you can just manage the trees, as i have been forced to do by many foresters, to keep them alive. my 50 years' experience in this is that it is not a good idea to have all those millions of people that are riding cable cars when we are supposed to be a green city. president hwang: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am an arborist. i worked in the area for 43 years. every kind of tree, many of the department' before going into my own business. the things that are being described as not so good about these trees could be

obviously invasive species are a serious threat to our forests and specifically to healthy forests that are productive. so expanding the categorical exclusion from 1,210,000 acres for use in mind beetle mitigation really is a very appropriate functional improvement and i thank the gentlelady for this amendment and encourage a yes vote. and i yield back. see the chairman yields back. does anyone else secret commissioned? >> i approve to strike the last word. >> the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. >> i would like to associate my remarks with those of ms.-- i think it's a good move for something that is certainly devastating to the western united states as we are seeing a number fires throughout the west and the implications in terms of not only property and life and in particular in my state as well. our opportunities to be able to address that and to be able to successfully address that i think are critically important to us and i encourage a yes vote as well. >> the chairman yields that. the ranking member seeks recognition. >> to strike the last word. >> you are recognized fo

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the urban forester as did their job -- forester's did their job.

red line trains will single track between takoma and forest land. and green line trains will single track between fort stockton and prince george's county plaza. >> coming up, the growing speculation of the person who will become mitt romney's running mate. we will >> coming up at 6:00 a.m., a clash between los angeles police and dozens of occupiedy protesters appeared >> you can bring the ice-cream truck to you. details on a new app. >> and we have the blockbuster best bet at 6:00 a.m. >> first, we will turn to the d.c. campaign scandal. mayor vincent gray says he will not quit or go into hiding despite all of the calls for him to resign. it was business as usual for the mayor yesterday after three council members called on him to resign after another campaign staffer pled guilty to charges related to a showdown -- to a shadow campaign during the 2010 mayoral campaign. >> how do you not let this become a distraction? >> i came here to do my job and that is what i intend to do. >> he has not been charged with a crime. we will probably hear more from

the forest alliance is satisfied with the additional language. we might have hoped for more, but that is the nature of it, and we are satisfied and will not in any way opposed the bond. >> i have a slide. i will to speak to it. i am arnita bowman, and i want to sit the to the supervisors released -- for listening to the concerns. the natural areas is a very controversial program. they're people barely support it and others of us the top concerns. it is encouraging we're starting to be listened to. i want to say that i agree with rpd and the representation of mount davidson being a signature gem of san francisco. it still needs to be protected. i think that is what we're interested in. there are many of the things that the natural areas are doing that some of us do not think are beneficial to the parks, and preserving those as a treasure of the sentences go. i just want to say i think it is really important that this discussion started sooner than later because in the 2008 bond, there's been $1 million fund already, and i do not think the majority

now, because people live in forests, they don't want fires. so eager to suppress the fires, that this stuff builds up. it builds up to the point that when you do have a fire, it becomes catastrophic. this is the problem. >> fire ecologist nathan corb of the nature conservancy says the long-standing forest service policy of fighting every fire has escalated the risk. >> we are managing four mega fires. we are creating the conditions that will support mega fires that are guaranteed to destroy homes and kill people. >> historically, natural smoldering fires are here every 15 to 20 years. with the accumulated brush, the fires can burn much more intensely. so hot that the very treetops can sometimes ignite, causing giant plumes of smoke, exploding fires that can leap great distances. in montana, we met the 20-member lewis and clark hotshot firefighters. they helped put out a 4800-acre blaze near the town of mammoth. >> we anticipate thunderstorms near the fire. >> supervisor rob says people and property in harm's way have forced firefighters to alt

so, the next story we will show you is going to take place in this forest that we just created. i want you to imagine you are in the old forest and we will explain to you the story. >> that was namaste. the devine in me greets the devine in you. can you say that? very good. so, as joe anna was saying. this come from the word meaning to tell stores. this is a story teller. you guys i heard out there i was listening a birdie told me you thought you were going to see a movie; right ? >> you are. in the old days this comes from what country? india. thousands of years ago and hundreds of years ago in india there were no movie theatres, no television, no radio, no comic books or no books for people like you and me to read. was this the same here? >> yes. all offer the world it was like that. ask your parents. they can tell you what it was like before the internet. so, people told stores. i bet you tell stories. did you tell a story today? >> yeah, i bet you did you went up to our friend and said, did you see that? your friend said, no, no he didn't. right? that's a story. so, i will t

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