it will allow them to improve their harvest without destroying more forestland.reporter: the women of the village are on their way to the coffee fields. they were the first to become involved in the project. they've started using natural fertilization, which has led to increased profits. elita tingal: before this project began, the rainforest was in pretty bad shape. we just took everything we needed. now we're giving something back. reporter: the community leader, thomas wajajai tuwits, loves to show visitors his nursery. he's raising coffee bean plants, just like all the other farmers. but in addition, he's growing young saplings, more than a thousand in all. soon, they'll be standing tall right next to the coffee plants. tomas wajajai: it was hard to convince people to plant new trees, and to explain the benefits to them. we talked with everyone and they are taking it more and more to heart. they're planting coffee and a variety of trees. those trees provide shade for the coffee plants. reporter: today, there's a farmer's market at the village hall. locals are

he was actually a doctor in the larg med school and he had a large piece of forestland in his family and he wanted to retire ge the forest a so he came over and took classes to learn how to manage the forest. he made a lot of neat analogies between medicine and forestry. a forester tries to make the forest as healthy as he can. how it's kind of like a doctor for the forest. >> where do you come in as far ght as environmental policies as far as capitol hill? how do you treat the issues of climate change? what's your personal issues?a prac >> iti consider myself very much an environmentalist but a . practical environmentalist. i like to use the word stewardship and kons conservationist. we need to conserve itr and make sure we leave it in better shape, to you for the future than what it was when we got it. >> when it comes to climate change, do you think it happens? >> climate change happens. cause the question is what causes it to happen and you have natural events forest fires put millions of tons of carbon in in t the yearhe every year. volcanic eruptions do it, and when it happens,

if we want to have safety and security in our community that have forestlands, shouldn't we clear the brush and make sure we don't have a fuel supply? again creating a better environment with a healthy forest. there are things we should do to create a healthy california and a healthy country. this water bill is one of those solutions. i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair lays before the house an enrolled bill. the clerk: senate 179, an act to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 14 third avenue northwest in chisholm, minnesota, as the james l. oberstar memorial post office building. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to rule 20, clause 8, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on motions to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered. or on which a vote incurs objection under rule 20, clause 6. record votes on postponed questions will be taken later today. for what purpose does the gentleman from movement seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rul

are still trying to contain the corner creek fire which has already burned nearly 29,000 acres of forestland in my district. 29,000 acres already burned. unfortunately this fire season, the west -- this fire season in the west has only just begun. among the many strong provisions in this bill is streamline planning, speed up the peace of forest management, several in particular are helpful to our great state of oregon where national forests in eastern oregon, this legislation repealed the prohibition on harvesting trees over 21 inches in diameter. there's no real ecological reason for this, it was a temporary measure put in place 0-something years ago and remains today. it didn't make sense then, doesn't make sense now and it will be repealed this law's one size fits all rule illustrates how broken the federal forest management has become. it greatly limits the flexibility forest managers have to do what's right for the health and ecosystem of the forest to make them more fire tolerant. this legislation also contains legislation i wrote with remitives defazio and schrader. it will cut costs,