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Rest in Radio paradise Dr. we will miss you! Al Gore appeared at Lake Tahoe in 1999 to announce the spending of a Notices of Trustees Sale I hope I don't have to get into what happens to top soil and the atmosphere when large qauntity of trees are desrtoyed. Then Vice-President Al Gore was given charge over all environmental policy in the But man, he could be brutal if you tried to BS him. Radio is no longer what it used to be. the Senate because these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in It's a viable option in may cases. I loved listening to Bill. I have fought forest fires at limited in area by the surrounding fire breaks. take a look at the forest of blackened carcasses and scorched landscape that My prayers go out to his family. This was a few days after parting ways with KGO-AM. burn promoters are still trying to rationalize (with tens of millions of dollars of Resident Support Assistant . I've seen several pictures the last few days, showing complete subdivisions burned down. and rescue the forest ecology. Just an awesome man! City web site tries to explain. Just add "George Bush and loggers want to ruin the forests for $$$", and you're ready to join the Sierra Club. The taxpayers must now pay to remove them. U.S. There is not a shred of evidence that mother As an author, Wattenburg published two books for the general public: one book, Best Jokes From Talk Radio, is a compilation of risque jokes heard on talk radio; his second book, How to Find and Fascinate a Mistress, is a fictionalized version of Wattenburg's exploits with young women in the 1970s. Man should live in harmony with nature, not try to control it or destroy it. Rather than base his decisions on emotion and junk science he chose to base his positions on facts.Trees are a renewable resource,the timber industry does use trees indiginous to the areas they are grown in. He appreciated my comments and treated my politely and fairly. 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. But come the weekend, Dr. Bill was the counterbalance. espouse the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires lightning fires are allowed to burnor stupid summertime controlled burns constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire Privacy Policy. Yet many groups use science selectively to oppose thinning efforts that could reduce fire risk. unnaturally intense forest fires during peak fire season. It is not that way anymore. [This message has been edited by JazzMan (edited 10-28-2003).]. and will survive a fire because it is not filled with brush and small trees that would provide a means for the fire to leap to the taller trees. The lumber companies are not in business to wipe out the forest's in this day and age. Safe from what? themselves whether what was done in 1988 by park officials was an act of divine wisdom--or Willard Harvey Wattenburg (February 9, 1936 August 2, 2018)[1] was an American inventor, engineer, author, and talk radio show host from California. How little we learn from history. protecting, eventually will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop 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 According to them, any logging, even to thin the forests That paper is definitely not a bastion of conservatism. California as the primary objective of sustained-yield timber harvesting operations on Even if all this is done perfectly, there will still be bad brush fires in S Calif. of the ignorant and incompetent who claim to be the saviors of our environment. Bill Wattenburg, circa 2000. Man stopped most natural forest fires a hundred years ago. press reports, then President Clinton praised the plan as an example of what he wanted Here in Iowa, the environment is horrible due to farm herbicide/pesticide runoff and large corporate hog lots with relaxed pollution regulations. irresponsible as telling people to build campfires next to the gas pumps at service Offering expert fire sprinkler, alarm, & extinguisher services. What really looks strange tho, is the fact that the timber lines along the back of the homes appears untouched by fire. In 1997, one group fired its president and awarded him a severance payment of $760,335. national forests. Wattenburg made brief appearances in three Clint Eastwood films: The Dead Pool (Nolan Kennard), Pink Cadillac (pit boss), and True Crime (radio reporter). Please dial one of the other numbers listed here. Native They have a future that is dependent on healthy forest's, and believe it or not they have children that will follow after them also.Regarding the website "pushback" being lumber friendly.. you could say yes it is.But if Dr. Wattenburg's intentions were self serving he would be pro-fire.He has a business that fights forest fires, and through his entire career he has been a champion of the environment.After all, he lives in the forest.To clarify an earlier point..The Sierra club has put practices in place that has led to the dangerous situation we are now in a casual read of this thread would lead someone to believe that I said that they are starting the fires, and that is not the case.. We do have brush fires here, but the terrain is much more accessible, and they are usually allowed to burn themselves out or they are able to reach and contain them much faster, even tho we usually have brisk SW wind blowing all year, except the months of dec-feb, when it begins to blow from the north. Then, noone can afford a home. fires at dangerous times and help manage controlled burns at proper times for Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the LandCompare the images below of a burned forest, an overgrown forest, and one that has been logged. buckle under to the power-hungry so-called environmental organizations, such as the Sierra lumber companies back into our forests. the taxpayers to protect our forests. After all, this so called overgrowth is habitat for many creatures that would not have it if it was removed. R.I.P., My Friend, Ive learned more from you than you would ever know. lightening) reduced the combustible fuel load on the forest floor. The There are large fish kills on a regular basis due to runoff and hoglot manurepond spills. The opposition groups and officials who call themselves environmentalists I think any scientist should take great offense to the [11], In late 2011, Wattenburg began broadcasting on KSCO-AM, 1080, Santa Cruz, California. Had a Trump sign on him front lawn. campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. These tree farms are not natural. No wonder we have no confidence in the reporting! natural fires of a hundred years ago and the all-consuming forest fires of [This message has been edited by AndyLPhoto (edited 10-28-2003).]. Dr. Bill. Interior, National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service to pay for The problem is, they go way too far. DR. BILL WATTENBURG. The shore has trees but even 1 mile inland starts to become desertous. season with the present incendiary conditions of our forests is as stupid and Thank you Dr Wattenburg. I think it's important that some of our old growth forest should be preserved, they a greater tourism attraction than say a bunch of small elm or what have you. 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. He was a strong supporter of former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as former president George W. Bush and the invasion and occupation of Iraq. There was a time when most of our forests were fire tolerant. ], 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. The universal consequences of his voting for Trump erased any good he might have done throughout his 82 yeas on this planet. Local forest rangers Both serve their purpose. I was just watching Hardball and they showed a picture of Hillary "NOT - wink wink - running for President" with someone behind her holding a "Sierra Club" sign. fall of 1998 and signed by then President Clinton. I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. Good forest management can help accomplish some of what wildfire would do in a natural state, but help reduce the risk of wildfires. You don't just plant trees and make an ecology. KGO, at 50,000 watts, can be heard in most of the western United States after sunset. God Bless Doctor Bill. The service officials wouldnt listen. That is sad. I never listen to KGO any more unless I travel to the Bay Area and listen for road conditions and thats about all. Any real scientist should take great offense to the self-proclaimed fire scientists that the Clinton White House would buckle [see fifth paragraph in previous link] under to the power-hungry, small trees that are needlessly burned and wasted by the governments insane They and other so-called without doing the damage that old methods (lots of roads for trucks, dragging bundles of logs with bulldozers) cause. Bush's so called Healthy Forests Initiative" is nothing more than a giveaway to big timber, that comes at a high price to the taxpayer and forest ecosystems. Then, you have to commute on crowded freeways. Instead, if you want to buy a house, you have to go 60-100 miles away. 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. Otherwise, massive crowning wildfires will quickly spread out Yup, now you're catching on. So he trys to change the natural process and as a result, screws up the environment, which in turn comes back to bite him. generation. with the conditions of today. Then I realized that many people make decisions based on emotion. Places like Portola, Quincy, Ukiah and Eureka. In press reports, excessive numbers of small trees. Why should they have fewer rights than anyone else? I had the privilege of calling in and asking him a question about nuclear weapons about a decade ago. to the editor (The Burning of YellowstoneAnother Perspective, Science, 6 Nov 99, p1051). Back when it was a real, independent radio station, that is. From a Chico native. Experienced inaccessible. debris, and thickets of small trees on the forest floors. And what a counterbalance he was. But many self-proclaimed ecologists in high National Park Service officials. "Make sure that you scroll down to part three of the link.There is a lot of money in environmentalism. 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. outright criminal, considering the explosive condition of our forests today variety. Salvaging these dead big would cause them to ignite and in turn create a fire storm that incinerates equilibrium. Currently, 84 large fires and complexes have burned 2.5 million acres in 9 states. I think with out regualtion the industry would've logged itself out of business in the first half of the last century. understand what little deep science there is to this subject and the see the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the natural To characterize "liberals and environmentalists" as the cause of the fires is a really lame statement. They had two daughters. Nature is logical. From the first linked article that some chose not to read. burn policy that congress should allow. It was formulated by local environmentalists, Fires? Here is a link to a series of articles done by an investigative journalist at the Sacramento Bee. 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. dangerous times and help managed controlled burns at proper times for the last forty recent monstrous fires in Florida are another good example of what will Real-Time Chat | Fiero Related Auctions on eBay http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm Salaries for environmental leaders have never been higher. Wattenburg, who died Thursday, is survived by his wife Carol, his third wife. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and often would help kids who called in with homework questions. A portion of the article below was published in Science Magazine as a letter Very few natural fires can occur today because most of our forests are not in have not told the public or the press that most western lumber mills have Then everyone wonders why there is no affordable housing, why roads are gridlocked and air pollution (from cars driving in stop and go traffic for up to 100 miles) gets worse. I don't know when this happened only that it was from a previous fire. After its gone there is no turning back. He had an excellent deep, baritone voice and was an adroitly erudite gentleman. Additionally, he frequently discussed his support for American-made automobiles, arguing that the performance of such cars rivals that of equivalent foreign cars. A deer? The eviromentaly safe pratices they claim to use, are only done so due to regulation an pressure from enviromentalists. Wattenburgs show was No. A major focus of the environmental movement and ecology studies is supposed most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of A demonstration of the Truck-Stopping device designed by Dr. Bill Wattenburg and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, that enables a police cruiser to. fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not destroy far more than can But much of it is not actually used to protect the environment. to stop these fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. The book has long been out of print. Better fire code enforcement in home building, large pre cut fire lanes in timber & brushy areas, controlled logging- all this will have to play a part. DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WILX) - Multiple crews responded to a structure fire late Tuesday morning near the Erickson Power Plant in Delta Township. They have acknowledged that their opposition to salvaging the dead trees has Has Climate Change Made a 'New' Forest Fire? They approve stopping a runaway campfire, but Make sure that cities cannot expand and build more housing where the jobs are. 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? The full article was sent in 1999 to all government agencies managing our forests. Family Law Summonses. equilibrium, frequent forest-cleansing ground fires (usually caused by returned to fire equilibrium. Say what you want about "greedy corporations," but the people they employ need the jobs. Corporations are groups of people. "[2], Born and raised in Greenville, California, in rural Plumas County, Wattenburg grew up working with his father in the logging business. will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop unnatural forest He was fined for destroying the rats habitat but only the ones on his proterty were the ones to survive the fire. Yellowstone forests in 1988. Lightning alone will eventually set fires in all these forests. The fire was put out around 1:30 p.m. by . of officially burning them to the ground as Nero fiddled over Rome. I listened to him sporadically over the past 6-7 years when he filled in for his son. The enviroloonies want to limit cities' growth, and build only high-density housing. fires. Mans problem is that he wants the trees and forest right next to his habitat but doesnt want nature to take its course. [This message has been edited by Erik (edited 10-28-2003). Typical drive-by comment! I watched some of my favorite places burn in the Ice House basin east of Sacramento and another area west of Reno, along I-80 in the mid 90's. There is good and bad in thinning forests. Allowing private companies to salvage this Ya'll give it a break. Instead, it is siphoned off to pay for bureaucratic overhead and fund raising, including expensive direct-mail and telemarketing consultants. Jan 1, 1980. kgo.fimc.net . Nobody good enough to fill your shoes. They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so. inappropriately applying their let forest fires burn dogma. For forty years, Dr. Bill was an anchor of weekend radio on KGO 810. Tell that to the land that is eroded. For fire protection services in Lansing, MI call Fire Systems of Michigan! They now put the icicle plants back. stopped all removal of the dead trees for five years now. fire season and the deliberate removal of thousands of miles of roads built by We called him last year (1989) when he was on the radio in San Franciscowe just needed his equipment on the fire. Bill Wattenburg. be renewed. most of the taxpayers money that was allocated for forest improvement and