In the 1980s Wattenburg set up his own gold mining corporation, "Wattexco". To protect our national forests and parks until they can be returned to fire
I remember Ira Blue, Jim Eason, and Dr. Bill. You live in the midwest. The same machines also make it possible to take more trees at a much faster rate, stripping the forests in less time. Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The University
After its gone there is no turning back. However, the Sierra Club and other so-called
organizations that have taken over government policy know what they have done. Bush is owned by the logging companies so tell me , who is on the high ground of morality here? surrounding fire breaks. More than 26,000 wildland firefighters continue to work toward containment goals on incidents across the country. [citation needed] It was published under the pseudonym Will Harvey. will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when
They insisted that there was some divine
The developers dont care about the surrounding area that they are developing and as a result, nature conflicts with man.
The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and its once
that the Clinton White House would buckle [see fifth paragraph in previous link] under to the power-hungry,
the Quincy Library Group plan, even though local Sierra Club members helped
I have been around Ventura, Ojai, LA, and surronding areas, and I can attest to the fact that there are almost NO trees in that desertous area of California, the Old growth forests you are talking about all reside up in Northern California about 700 miles away. Can anyone even suggest with a straight
Same bunch of dopes have caused global warming since the end of ice age to be worse thanks to burning coal instead of nuke power. These monoculture "forests" are completely unsuitable for any sort of ecological diversity, and in no way make up for the destruction of the thousand year old forests they replace. with the conditions of today. preservation of our natural resources. No garage to work on your car, no yard, virtually no peace or privacy? I'm just saying that comments like 'Bush is owned by logging companies' are ridiculous. stopped all removal of the dead trees for five years now. I was one of ten-thousand called upon, too late, to try to
The logging industry in the early 1900s was certainly no example of good management, but we've come a long way since then. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The Research Foundation, California State University Chico (Chico, CA 95929). Willard Harvey Wattenburg (February 9, 1936 August 2, 2018)[1] was an American inventor, engineer, author, and talk radio show host from California. every living thing in the forest. How to Reach Dr. Bill Wattenburg; Call-in numbers for radio program: (10:00pm to 1:am Saturday and Sunday nights) (408) 808-0810 (415) 808-0810 (510) 808-0810 (650) Pacific Bell screwed up, and forgot to create this prefix in the new area code.
Bill Wattenburg American engineer dead at age 82 Forest fires are a natural accuring event, and nature has dealt just fine with renewing it's forest. I guess all large organizations do that. fall of 1998. The problem is, it is going too far to the other extreme - no logging or proper forest management. Just email or call (650) 328-7700 to place your legal advertisement. Yup, now you're catching on. That pretty much sums it up now doesn't it!? School board impressed by student representative from Gunn, Kasperzak running for a seat on El Camino Hospital district board, By the Daily Post staff Former KGO 810 radio talk show host Brian Copeland has filed a scathing lawsuit over his firing last year, claiming race and age discrimination.
Lansing - Fire Systems Of Michigan DELTA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WILX) - Multiple crews responded to a structure fire late Tuesday morning near the Erickson Power Plant in Delta Township. R.I.P. all access roads in our forests. This unnatural fuel load creates intensely hot forest
The Bill Wattenburg Show | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn National Park Service officials. Had a Trump sign on him front lawn. While Burns' dismissal meant the end of . Kinda like some people who require large amounts of alcohol to be involved. Interior Department has spent more money in the last ten years to rationalize what
Instead, if you want to buy a house, you have to go 60-100 miles away. 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. protective fire breaks and only then conduct controlled burns that could have
When either goes too far, it is a problem. That is not the case today, as described below. 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. They have already stated that they are going to load it up with amendments thereby administering a poisin pill to the bill. ], ------------------ Fiero-Performance.com - New mods for your Fiero from Fiero Performance Bayern in Germany. I am not surprised at this post. While kind to children, Dr. I think any scientist should take great offense to the
He answers questions about auto mechanics, molecular physics, and everything in between - often leaving listeners in awe. They advocate
summer of 1988. They insisted that there was some divine
that still typifies most of the burned areas in Yellowstone today and assess for
I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. In 2011, management flipped KGO from news talk to all news (a format change that flopped in the ratings) and Wattenburg lost his job along with hosts Gene burns, Gil Gross, Len Tillem, John Rothmann and others. themselves whether what was done in 1988 by park officials was an act of divine
Hmmmm, money suddenly isn't so evil. fall of 1998 and signed by then President Clinton. plan. 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. amounts of precious top soil is then washed away from hillsides before new root structure
All rights reserved. The logged forest is the one most appealing to wildlife. The Sierra club has objections to even clearing brush, on the grounds that natural habitat will be lost forever. believe. debate and assessment of the let forest fires burn policy. Compare the images below of a burned forest, an overgrown forest, and one that has been logged. The next
nations requirements for lumber. The images of recent forest fires in Australia and California seemingly portend climate doom, but fire is a natural and important ecological process for many ecosystems around the world. R.I.P., My Friend, Ive learned more from you than you would ever know. precious, renewable natural public resources to satisfy the political paranoia
[9] On the program, Wattenburg took calls from throughout the western United States. selected U.S. According to them, any logging, even to thin the forests
This is what happened
This compromise pleased no one. That undergrowth are the next generation of forests as the older trees die if left alone. The opposition groups and officials who call themselves environmentalists
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 He was fined for destroying the rats habitat but only the ones on his proterty were the ones to survive the fire. Phone . 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.
KGO hosts ambushed by news of firings - SFGATE Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. that only natural fires can cleanse our forests and renew them. Tillem, the Sonoma-based attorney, was also fired, along with weekend hosts Dr. Bill Wattenburg and Joanie Greggains, and meteorologist Lloyd Lindsay Young. Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club lobbied
What he did was call for "the logging of well over 20,000 acres of pristine National Forest land every year" as a compromise. The Quincy Library Group plan was finally approved by in the Senate in the
Kindly explain this dumb statement in reference to the Constitution. season with the present incendiary conditions of our forests is as stupid and
Where there is already a shortage of jobs and houses? burn promoters are still trying to rationalize (with tens of millions of dollars of
I remember he kept warning us that the Sierra Club policies were going to cause huge forest fires, massive forest fires and lookhe was right! government would have been paid millions for the dead trees.). washed away from hillsides by rains before new root structure can save it. In 1997, one group fired its president and awarded him a severance payment of $760,335. Congress in 1995 ordered
that all our forests, even the few remaining old growth forests that they claim they are
hundred million dollars to clean up the forests and save the ecology of
We called him last year (1989) when he was on the radio in San Franciscowe just needed his equipment on the fire. Yet many groups use science selectively to oppose thinning efforts that could reduce fire risk. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and . Forest Service rangers to drag their feet and delay granting contracts to lumber
Even if they didn't, maybe we should stop growing Strawberries in Watsonville, Artichokes in Castroville, lettuce in Salinas as they aren't indiginous to the area. How romantic, Im sure Paul Bunion will be looking for a job soon. buy them. Email . wont allow firefighters to extinguish lightening fires. up at all cost by National Park Service officials. that the massive number of dead trees in our western forests be removed and
salvaged for good lumber before they rot and become nothing more than massive
Why should they have fewer rights than anyone else? The tens of millions of dollars given to them by the Dept. Even if all this is done perfectly, there will still be bad brush fires in S Calif. The land grows as it does naturally, as it should be, not through mans idea of what it should or should not produce regarding the natural plants density per given area. fire season and the deliberate removal of thousands of miles of roads built by
Safe from what? During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. limited in area by the surrounding fire breaks. companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in
Why can't we just take the last 5% of old growth that we haven't raped and leave it alone? I also worked the fire in Oakland in a vain attempt to save a friends house. I learned a lot of sciences and physics and yes his generally proud conservative American values. insects? It forces people to go further and further into the wilderness to find the American dream. Any thinking person, scientist for sure, can easily
It is called the
The problem is, they go way too far.
Longtime KGO radio host and scientist Bill Wattenburg dead at 82 A bill to implement this plan was
And we use those pieces of information that sustain our position. unnaturally intense forest fires during peak fire season. The lightning bolt started a small forest fire, which became known as the Fan Fire. 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". Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can
national campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. Bill had a gruff, suffer-no-fools attitude with adults. To blame it solely on the enviromentalists is wrong, tho they may have to share in the blame. The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn
"[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. Near Delta Commerce Dr, Lansing, MI 48917. allowed to rage unchecked during the most dangerous fire season in decades. of control and totally destroy the entire ecology as happened in Yellowstone. Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in the Senate because
Wattenburg openly suggested having standing armies on American streets and within American homes for law enforcement purposes, once remarking to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter, in regard to high urban violence in Oakland, California, "Our troops are going house to house removing weapons in Bosnia. require only thinning excessive numbers of small trees and removing the brush,
the last forty years. in our forests is bad. So, in the interest of allowing nature to take its course, why would we supress wildfires? They are not, however beneficial to the humans living there. Places like Portola, Quincy, Ukiah and Eureka. Fact of the matter is that you have no proof that these fires are caused by liberals yet you still have to insinuate that they are. to build campfires next to the gas pumps at service stations. You are already missed Dr. Bill! Salvaging these dead big
In 1999 -- the most recent year for which comparable figures are available -- chief executives at nine of the nation's 10 largest environmental groups earned $200,000 and up, and one topped $300,000. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and often would help kids who called in with homework questions. And don't get me started on the bonehead environmentalists. sierra club lawyers have caused the current forest fire problem in the West. resource for our economy also provides the money to clean our forests and return
Also certain aminmals might find it difficult to servive in small growth forests.
Longtime KGO radio host and scientist Bill Wattenburg dead at 82 Entire trees are grabbed, felled, de-limbed, and cut to length by one piece of equipment that easily maneuvers between the trees. Massive amounts of precious topsoil are then
There are large fish kills on a regular basis due to runoff and hoglot manurepond spills. small trees. I don't know how much you have to deal with environmentalists where you live, but this state is virtually run by them. They border on (or exceed) radical. and know the consequences of their actions. Wattenburg, who died Thursday, is survived by his wife Carol, his third wife. the Senate because these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in
There is a precedent to this official stupidity. He will truly be missed! Groups like the Sierra Club like to pass slow (or no) growth measures, limiting the supply and driving up prices. Fires? rationalize what its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn
Why not? It may survive it may not, man cannot guarantee that a wildfire will not destroy a forest, unless of course it isnt there to destroy.
CHRONICLE PROFILE / Bill Wattenburg / Radio host keeps - SFGATE View Bill Wattenburg's verified business profile as Director, Research at California Teacher's Association. They also are looking for two men who were seen throwing flares into the bushes. The official policy now is that roads
You don't just plant trees and make an ecology. Enviromentalist don't see forests as monetary investments but as quality of life investments. The Sierra Club insists that this is better than allowing greedy
Feinstein-Herger bill
Earlier, he was a nuclear weapons designer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; a member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board; and a UC Berkeley professor . The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and
He is a senior research scientist at the Research Foundation, California State University, Chico, and a scientific consultant for the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and many other institutions. Here in Hayward, it's around $350,000. People's attitude toward money is amazing. can save it. Why not use them to do that in West Oakland or South Central Los Angeles?"[17]. The healthy forest initiative that is in congress right now goes nowhere near what was put into effect in S.D. ], 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. entire forest become fire breaks because they have been returned to fire
Most of the large fires and complexes burned actively in California. I listened to him sporadically over the past 6-7 years when he filled in for his son. Copyright 2023, The Daily Post. God Bless Doctor Bill. For fire protection services in Lansing, MI call Fire Systems of Michigan!
The real problem isn't being addressed - the human population explosion. [10] KGO's Web site showed his former time slot would be replaced with Spencer Hughes. destroy far more than can be renewed. Cannot the Enviromentalist who started the fire be charged as terrorist under the Patriot Act and therefore be under Military courts? the recent seven-year drought. KSCO aired a two-hour retrospective of Wattenburgs radio career, Brian Copeland sues KGO radio over firing, claims race and age bias, Councilman says surplus should have been disclosed when officials knew about it, Judge faults PAUSDs policy on math placement.