u.s. forest service to convey 3.6 acres of land to delores county, colorado, for the -- dolores county, colorado, to get a fire station in west fork. they must rely on a fire station located 26 miles away to provide critical firefighting and emergency services to the community. frequent and devastating fires have ofaged the western states. every community needs to protect itself against fire and other catastrophic events. h.r. 4609 will improve local fire and emergency services to the community of west fork and will ensure residents of the west fork area are prepared for any catastrophic events without expending any new federal dollars. i want to note the hard work that representative tipton has put into this bill, salute his efforts and leadership and with that reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentlelady from hawaii. ms. hanabusa: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for as much time as she wishes to use. ms. hanabusa: thank you, mr. speaker. h.r. 4609 authorizes

u.s. forest service a lot of dead trees right here yeah this is a nice will active spot for you to. barbados kill more trees than any other kind of insect or disease in north america when you just look across the landscape and you see this kind of patchwork of dead trees mortality is quite dramatic this tree here is full of thousands of bark beetles does that mean that all the trees around here are now susceptible right. now from what i've seen it's just basically across the entire landscape have you ever seen this but not here in california. so just ten minutes where we're looking at the devastation caused by the pine beetles and now we are here and you can see the damage done by forest fires and there's a lot going on here so even though the wildfires actually gone through an area and cause major mortality it will still see bark beetles coming in afterwards scientists studying our forest are concerned about the impacts from drought not just in california but also around the world now what we're starting to worry about is whether these droughts are somehow all interrelated in lengt