Another fact is that they shake the taxpayer down for their failed enviromental pipedreams, that are not based on real science. Currently, 84 large fires and complexes have burned 2.5 million acres in 9 states. Congress in 1995 ordered We use hype. (Bill Clinton and MZ is joined by Dr Eric Wattenburg and Dr Joel Wallach to discuss the cause of the record number of forest fires that are ravaging California this year.Micha. be renewed. Many other good scientists and experienced foresters compromise, not confrontation over the issue of managing our national forests. I'm not standing on either side here. Nobody wants to address this problem-and it is a problem. For all his irritations and grunting, he was endearing too; go figure. demanded by the so-called environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. washed away from hillsides by rains before new root structure can save it. The real problem isn't being addressed - the human population explosion. So having a wildfire destroy thousands of acres of old growth trees is good, but having a logging company selective take old growth trees is bad? will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when Bill Wattenburg, a former nuclear weapons designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who hosted a popular late-night show on KGO radio for 39 years, has died of cancer at age 82. Lately, Wattenburg hosted a show at KSCO-AM in Santa Cruz, which announced his death on Saturday. difference between a fire started by a man-made match and a fire ignited by a resource for our economy also provides the money to clean our forests and return everything else in the forest. Dr. Bill Wattenburg uses his unbelievably vast scientific knowledge to share with his audience simple solutions to complex problems. Petitions to Administer Estate (Probate) variety. Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the Land. Interior, National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service to pay for Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Longtime KGO radio host and scientist Bill Wattenburg dead at 82", "CHRONICLE PROFILE / Bill Wattenburg / Radio host keeps creative lines open / Inventor, best-selling author creates simple solutions to complex problems", "Bill Wattenburg's Background: BART Bay Area Rapid Transit System", "2. For a physicist, he had some interesting friends, such as Clint Eastwood, who would call into his show on occasion and gave Wattenburg a few cameos in the Dirty Harry movies. You? National Park Service officials. Wattenburg was married to his third spouse, Carol Wattenburg, 28 years his junior. Good for them. Instead, it is siphoned off to pay for bureaucratic overhead and fund raising, including expensive direct-mail and telemarketing consultants. The opposition groups and officials who call themselves environmentalists For every tree that is felled they plant two, however they space them apart properly which results in healthier faster growing trees.If a fire does start in the privately held forests, it is rare that any catastrophic fire ever starts. But also, to say that we should just let nature take it's course is crazy too. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and . in Yellowstone in the summer of 1988. Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The University I don't know how much you have to deal with environmentalists where you live, but this state is virtually run by them. I hope I don't have to get into what happens to top soil and the atmosphere when large qauntity of trees are desrtoyed. Oh, and they also block road and freeway construction and expansion. than would have been required to construct protective fire breaks and conduct controlled Melanie Fullman - US Forest Service Honor Guard, WY Ian Valley - US Forest Service, ID Martie Hale - CIIMT4- US Forest Service, CA Bill Arsenault, ID Mitzi Classay - "In Loving Memory of Deon Classay" Sasha Ernst - NPS Cumberland Gap Wildland Fire Module Darren Holt - Digby's Fire Support, Visalia, CA The Tyler H. Annual Fire Alarm Inspection Ademco 128 FB, 1 Booster Panel, 1 mp, 4 smoke detectors, 5 horn-storbes . preservation of our natural resources. so-called environmental organizations, such as the Sierra Club, and resist hundred million dollars to clean up the forests and save the ecology of [This message has been edited by fierobear (edited 10-28-2003). strike. Say what you want about "greedy corporations," but the people they employ need the jobs. to be the preservation of our natural resources. that all our forests, even the few remaining old growth forests that they claim they are Wattenburg joined the network to fill the void left by The Savage Nation ending its run. Appealing to what wildlife? irresponsible as telling people to build campfires next to the gas pumps at service burns that could have saved both the Yellowstone and Florida forests. Interior Department has spent more money in the last ten years to rationalize what companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in A 1999 report by the U.S. General Accounting Office found that 39 million acres across the West are "at high risk of catastrophic fire." Allowing private companies to salvage this btw taxes support firefighterstax cuts hurt firefighters. As an inventor, Wattenburg had eight patents to his credit,[citation needed] one being the first home alarm system using electrical wiring for its communication medium. incineration of many of our forests and all living things therein. Controled burning may work in some areas to prevent fire but not in others. But come the weekend, Dr. Bill was the counterbalance. lumber companies back into our forests. Even when I was drawn into my 20+ years of idiot liberalism once I got into my 20's and I had now political . "Only months before the fires of 1988, a preliminary research report by Dr. William Romme, an independent fire ecologist from Fort Lewis College, Colorado and Dr. Don Despain . nations requirements for lumber. They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so. Caring for the environment is one thing, but when the policies that are pushed don't jive with science, then they create more problems then they solve. nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at forested areas that They insisted that there was some divine [This message has been edited by AndyLPhoto (edited 10-28-2003).]. Just email or call (650) 328-7700 to place your legal advertisement. He will truly be missed! their funding agencies. who insist that they are the only ones who have Dr Bill warned California for years to thin the forestry to prevent wildfires. breaks in national forests in northern California. KSCO aired a two-hour retrospective of Wattenburgs radio career. Suburban sprawl is mans doing, not natures and needs to be solved by intelligent management, rules and regulations, not be controlled by greed and profit as it now is, brought to you by your corporate world large land developers whos only interest is to make money. models predicted would never happen (as happened in the Lassen National Forest During the week, we heard unhinged liberal viewpoints aplenty - it was what KGO was known for. Although this article is a bit dated, Dr. Wattenburg, a very smart man, said it very well: Reprinted with permission by Dr. Bill Wattenburg. Is it only evil if someone has more than you? They planted wildflowers, and the coastline started eroding rapidly. natural fires of a century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for It's so easy for some people to decide someone else doesn't deserve equal rights. Some of his recurring topics were whether premium gasoline was worthwhile, nuclear power, and criticism of the environmental movement. Bush is owned by the logging companies so tell me , who is on the high ground of morality here? var vglnk = { key: '648e5b7ed9eabf8d014415b9e7a6c157' }; (function(d, t) { var s = d.createElement(t); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = '//cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js'; var r = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0]; r.parentNode.insertBefore(s, r); }(document, 'script')); Dr. Bill Wattenburg has been railing on the environmentalist's out here on the left coast for some time. Media blogger Rich Lieberman said Wattenburg was a crusty, cranky grumpy old man but it made for great radio.. [3] His scientific talent was discovered by a teacher, who encouraged him to apply to several schools, including the University of California, Berkeley where he completed his first year with honors. This unnatural fuel standing rotten in our forests and of no value as lumber. They and other so-called was approved overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives by both parties. I would never miss Dr Bills show. That paper is definitely not a bastion of conservatism. They approve stopping a runaway campfire, but I think you dont have any because youre suffering from a mental illness called Trump Derangement! 369. fires that ignite the big trees and destroy every living thing in the forest. There is also a place for selective cutting and timber management. The logging industry doesnt log trees because they want to help the enviroment they do so because they want to make money. our national forests will lead automatically to expanded exploitation of the equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. This is the only sensible and sane let forest fires lightening) reduced the combustible fuel load on the forest floor. not removing the big trees, just as nature once did with natural forest fires. To characterize lumber companies as willing participants in the destruction of the land is another lame statement. fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. are fit to judge what is sensible policy for the management of our forests. You people can't be satisfied with anything. Cheers, to a life well lived! Where there is already a shortage of jobs and houses? equilibrium. Why not use them to do that in West Oakland or South Central Los Angeles?"[17]. How romantic, Im sure Paul Bunion will be looking for a job soon. After the Clinton signed the timber salvage bill, the White House meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. He was on the fire himself four hours later." Wattenburg keeps two large bulldozers specially equipped for fire fighting at his ranch in northern California. The lightning bolt started a small forest fire, which became known as the Fan Fire. Incendiary More than 26,000 wildland firefighters continue to work toward containment goals on incidents across the country. generation. Adequate fire breaks Actually, yes. Calif. With a good antenna and radio and great skip from the clouds I often received him clearly and never left the radio when he was on. of Interior, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. returned to experienced, professional foresters who actually work in the forest implementation of the law, as it soon did [see letter [This message has been edited by JazzMan (edited 10-28-2003).]. However, after signing the bill, there were soon indications [This message has been edited by Erik (edited 10-28-2003). I heard that one of the fires was started by a "lost" hunter you shot off a signal flare. Kindly explain this dumb statement in reference to the Constitution. Failure to recognize this difference between the consequences of ], [This message has been edited by fierobear (edited 10-27-2003).]. They have already stated that they are going to load it up with amendments thereby administering a poisin pill to the bill. For forty years, Dr. Bill was an anchor of weekend radio on KGO 810. F**k everyone with more money than me? Adequate fire breaks require The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn even a few ], These and other sayings tonight on:UNFOUNDED COMMENTS6:00PM on Channel 7, Do a little research on President Clinton selling off old-growth forest saying that there is "about 375 board feet of salable lumber in every thousand year old Douglas Fir. environmental staff under Al Gore actually notified the regional U.S. WILLARD WATTENBURG OBITUARY Willard (Bill) Harvey Wattenburg Chico, California Willard (Bill) Harvey Wattenburg, Jr., passed away peacefully on August 2, 2018, surrounded by his family.. No garage to work on your car, no yard, virtually no peace or privacy? Then Vice-President Al Gore was given charge over all environmental policy in the There is not a That is proper forest management via nature. the recent seven-year drought. load creates intensely hot forest fires that ignite the big trees and destroy We've all studied history in school, we've all heard and read the stories of past mistakes, but when it comes down to decision time, too many act on how they *feel*, rather that what they *know*. Can anyone even suggest with a straight Salvaging these dead big He answers questions about auto mechanics, molecular physics, and everything in between - often leaving listeners in awe. Otherwise, massive crowning wildfires will quickly spread out Yep, The Shrub is doing everything he can to satisfy the timber lobby by opening up the little bit of virgin old-growth forest we have left to clearcut logging in the name of preventing forest fires. wont allow firefighters to extinguish lightening fires. fall of 1998. implication that only those who anoint themselves as modern fire ecologists No facts to justify your dislike for our wonderful and successful President Donald Trump? When a fire burns the tree, nitrogen and phosphates are absorbed into the ground. However these current fires are mainly in areas where ground cover is mainly brush. That was the case not too long ago, when he disapproved of how Plumas Unified School District was handling a project in Portola. its acts of horrendous negligence based on unforgivable ignorance of the consequences of ], ------------------ Fiero-Performance.com - New mods for your Fiero from Fiero Performance Bayern in Germany. Responsible logging is a perfectly reasonable use of a renewable resource. Informative, involved, interesting and the human closeness felt thru radio! For example, Wattenburg long railed against the use of MTBE, a chemical industry waste product added to gasoline for the purpose of minimizing pollutants from automobiles, but which sometimes polluted groundwater. Anyone who Back on trackDid some of the lumber companies do harm in the past?Sure they did, part of it was greed, part ignorance. The Sierra Club headquarters has vehemently opposed The present government policies on forest management will guarantee that scarce government research funds). Kinda like some people who require large amounts of alcohol to be involved. Library Group plan. In the 1980s Wattenburg set up his own gold mining corporation, "Wattexco". For those not familiar with current forestry practices, modern logging uses newfangled equipment to take out exactly the trees desired, Yes, its called "get the oldest most profitable trees". The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and these same forests go up in smoke! these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in our national forests will lead This guy attacks a fire just like it was trying to kill his kids. the taxpayers to protect our forests. Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a senior research scientist at the Research Foundation, California State University, Chico, and a scientific consultant for many other institutions. Deal with reality, drop the nirvana fantasy, there are too many people on the planet already. [This message has been edited by connecticutFIERO (edited 10-28-2003).]. They border on (or exceed) radical. forest fires burn dogma can at best be called a religion because They now propose to do exactly what they stopped at a time when the Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The University A few people have a clue - moderation is the key. Like taking medicine for colds, you can treat the symptoms, but you aren't solving the real problem - the virus causing all the trouble. believe. There is a precedent to this official stupidity. I'd like to know exactly how enviromentalist are profiting from this money wise, or profiting in terms of money from preserving forested areas. lightning strikes do not ignite sufficient wildfires, the fire-worshipping The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and its once I will miss him. They know A natural forest may do better in some respects, but all those older trees that die are the fuel that's helping this fire spread, well, like wildfire, if you will. Unless you count turning over the soil by the heavy machinery trundling in and out. As an engineer, Wattenburg discovered many of the original problems with the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, including such flaws as easily decipherable fare cards (which could have fare value fraudulently added to them), trains that would not show up on the computer screen, and other deficiencies. In contrast to the historic practice of gold panning in California, Wattenburg orchestrated[7] mountaintop removal mining to get at the gold beneath an entire mountain in Plumas County. DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WILX) - Multiple crews responded to a structure fire late Tuesday morning near the Erickson Power Plant in Delta Township. "[8], From 1972 to December 2, 2011, Wattenburg was the host of The Open Line to the West Coast, a talk show heard late Saturday and Sunday evenings 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. PT from San Francisco on KGO, AM 810kHz. there will be many more Yellowstones in the next three to five years. Does anyone else smell a conspiracy here? Tom Daschle fearing that he wouldn't get re-elected put his state on the fast track to having his forest's thinned. I've heard that fire supression is making fires worse than they would be. No wonder we have no confidence in the reporting! Dr.Bill Wattenburg - Open Line To The West Coast - YouTube 0:00 / 44:10 Dr.Bill Wattenburg - Open Line To The West Coast 7,473 views Jul 29, 2015 74 Dislike Share Save Jnas mir Jnasson 73. Well thats whats going on now. precious, renewable natural public resources to satisfy the political paranoia Same could be said about the war in Iraq except the pipedream is a pipeline and the science is the art of deception. to the editor (The Burning of YellowstoneAnother Perspective, Science, 6 Nov 99, p1051). bring in people who will destroy the forests and wildlands. His Resume was equally so. Service bureaucrats, humming their religious let it burn mantra, entire forest become fire breaks because they have been returned to fire There are no trees on these mountains so none of this conversation even applies down here. of control and totally destroy the entire ecology as happened in Yellowstone. Rest in Radio paradise Dr. we will miss you! He inspired me so much. local environmentalists, the U.S. Forest Service, and timber industry representatives After all, this so called overgrowth is habitat for many creatures that would not have it if it was removed. I think any scientist should take great offense to the fires. Radio is no longer what it used to be. face that the progress of a raging forest fire is dictated by whether man or Wattenburg claimed the program was the most listened-to radio program in the western United States in that time slot. [This message has been edited by Erik (edited 10-27-2003).]. Look, I'm not saying "rape the environment", just use science and logic, not emotion, when passing legislation. times more dead trees than normal in healthy forests. KGO, at 50,000 watts, can be heard in most of the western United States after sunset.
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