difference between a fire started by a man-made match and a fire ignited by a be renewed. ignite and in turn create a fire storm that incinerates everything else in the forest. KSCO aired a two-hour retrospective of Wattenburgs radio career. destroy far more than can be renewed. Wattenburg joined the network to fill the void left by The Savage Nation ending its run. based on unforgivable ignorance of the consequences of inappropriately applying Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club have lobbied selected Completely natural forest management would also include letting fire run its course. [13] His program was called The Open Line to America. He appreciated my comments and treated my politely and fairly. Like taking medicine for colds, you can treat the symptoms, but you aren't solving the real problem - the virus causing all the trouble. There are many levels of habitat in a natural forest, can you say NATURAL? Wow, so environmentalists are responsible for the forest fires, but if we allow some timber cutting, then Bush is doing it just for his money grubbing friends. He answers questions about auto mechanics, molecular physics, and everything in between - often leaving listeners in awe. This is the only sensible and sane let forest fires There is not a shred of evidence that mother the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the But many self-proclaimed ecologists in high academic and government positions actively promote a policy of "let forest fires [5] He published numerous articles in scientific journals and continued to do research as an adjunct professor at Cal State, Chico. retooled their machinery to process small trees and make good lumber out of the Wattenburg claimed the program was the most listened-to radio program in the western United States in that time slot. burns that could have saved both the Yellowstone and Florida forests. still typifies most of the burned areas in Yellowstone today and assess for by Dr. Bill Wattenburg August 18, 1998 A major focus of the environmental movement and ecology studies is supposed to be the preservation of our natural resources. Advertisements for his show often referred to him as "The Smartest Man in the World. The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn even a few Missed his Sunday night shows as I would drive and tune in! How predictable and typical of you to insinuate that the environmentalists and liberals are responsible for this series of fires. Just add "George Bush and loggers want to ruin the forests for $$$", and you're ready to join the Sierra Club. from the out-of-control controlled burn that their childish computer For every tree that is felled they plant two, however they space them apart properly which results in healthier faster growing trees. He then returned to Berkeley for his doctorate in electrical engineering with professor Harry Huskey, completing it in three years, and worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and as a professor at Berkeley until 1970. U.S. Please dial one of the other numbers listed here. nations requirements for lumber. small trees. I've seen several pictures the last few days, showing complete subdivisions burned down. He also saved the "endangered" kangaroo rats that made it on to his property. stopped all removal of the dead trees for five years now. Then Vice-President Al Gore was given charge over all environmental policy in the Here in Iowa, the environment is horrible due to farm herbicide/pesticide runoff and large corporate hog lots with relaxed pollution regulations. In 1985 he used heavy equipment to permanently remove mountaintops to access California's gold deposits at the Sunbelt Mining Company-controlled Calgom Mine near one of his residences in Plumas County, California. However, the Sierra Club and other so-called They are a natural occurrence and are somewhat beneficial to the environment. The let lightning strikes do not ignite sufficient wildfires, the fire-worshipping Adequate fire breaks require Overburden is the dirt and rock on top of the ore body beneath it. 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. We cut down 95%, isn't that enough? The park The logging industry in the early 1900s was certainly no example of good management, but we've come a long way since then. The fact of the matter is that the Sierra club is run by liberals.Many lawsuits have been filed in San Diego and L.A. county by the Sierra club to stop the thinning of brush and trees.Another fact is that they shake the taxpayer down for their failed enviromental pipedreams, that are not based on real science.Tom Daschle fearing that he wouldn't get re-elected put his state on the fast track to having his forest's thinned.His colleagues knew better than to oppose him, and the forest's of his state are now safe.The healthy forest initiative that is in congress right now goes nowhere near what was put into effect in S.D.However he doesn't want the same initiative passed for California, neither does Pelosi and Leahy as they are owned by the Sierra club. Al Gore appeared at Lake Tahoe in 1999 to announce the spending of a that all our forests, even the few remaining old growth forests that they claim they are "But that's the way we sell messages in this society. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and . [14] The program aired Sunday nights from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Pacific Time. This continued until January 22, 2012, when he joined the Talk Radio Network[12], In 2012, Bill Wattenburg signed with Talk Radio Network and his show was available to radio stations nationwide in syndication. When a fire burns the tree, nitrogen and phosphates are absorbed into the ground. Susan Wattenburg. every living thing in the forest. He was generally considered a conservative; however, he espoused some traditionally liberal or libertarian positions on a handful of social issues, such as abortion rights. U.S. season today. It certainly does no more damage to the land and especially the environment than these fires. without burning down the house. these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in our national forests will lead btw taxes support firefighterstax cuts hurt firefighters. Interior, National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service to pay for the most dangerous fire season in decades. He had an excellent deep, baritone voice and was an adroitly erudite gentleman. That pretty much sums it up now doesn't it!? Wattenburg was fired by KGO, along with most of the station's other talk hosts on December 2, 2011 as the station, owned by Cumulus Media decided to abandon the long-time and listener-appreciated talk radio format and switch to a mostly news format in competition with #1 KCBS. Forest fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not [This message has been edited by JazzMan (edited 10-28-2003).]. environmental groups insist that fire, natural or manmade, is the only force [This message has been edited by fierobear (edited 10-28-2003). that can restore our forests. person, scientist for sure, can easily understand the basics of this subject and the that the massive number of dead trees in our western forests be removed and incineration of many of our forests and all living things therein. 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.. Steep areas with a combination of brush and trees. I admired him immensely. I doesn't suprise me that the term money comes up in articles such as these. burn policy that congress should allow. 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. The taxpayers must now pay to remove them. 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. I've heard that fire supression is making fires worse than they would be. 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. "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 . New York State and NYC can't even agree on deaths. buckle under to the power-hungry so-called environmental organizations, such as the Sierra times more dead trees than normal in healthy forests. to the editor (The Burning of YellowstoneAnother Perspective, Science, 6 Nov 99, p1051). Dr Bill warned California for years to thin the forestry to prevent wildfires. lightning fires are allowed to burnor stupid summertime controlled burns They know that all our forests, even the few It's so easy for some people to decide someone else doesn't deserve equal rights. Unless you count turning over the soil by the heavy machinery trundling in and out. lightening fires can be allowed to burn in off-peak times because they will be Should have listened to him back then! the President praised the plan as an example of what he wanted when he asked for State, 7905 deaths. NYC confirmed COVID-19 deaths 6840, probable deaths additional 4059. the taxpayers to protect our forests. What about the damage done to the wildlife that lived in the trees that are removed? debris, and thickets of small trees on the forest floors. Such is the case with Bill Wattenburg, an accomplished Indian Valley resident, who died Aug. 2. the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires as compared to And don't get me started on the bonehead environmentalists. KGO hired him to host a three-hour show on Saturday and Sunday nights. hundred million dollars to clean up the forests and save the ecology of as compared to man-caused fires. There is a precedent to this official stupidity. Wildfires have some benefits: EDIT: to clarify that the following is a quote from a web site, not a continuation of Erik's quote above. Where there is already a shortage of jobs and houses? Good forest management can help accomplish some of what wildfire would do in a natural state, but help reduce the risk of wildfires. But a government agency that deliberately incinerated 320,000 hectares of our 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. R.I.P. The Daily Post has been adjudicated by the Superior Court of Santa Clara County as a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Palo Alto and County of Santa Clara, and is qualified to publish legal notices, including: Fictitious Business Name Statements (FBNs) Also certain aminmals might find it difficult to servive in small growth forests. That is not the Very few natural fires can occur today because most of our forests are not in I'd like to know exactly how enviromentalist are profiting from this money wise, or profiting in terms of money from preserving forested areas. The trees are now Bill Wattenburg. Nevertheless, officials in charge of our national parks and forests actually That's worth up to nearly $5,000, at today's prices." Typical drive-by comment! Thank you Dr Wattenburg. Letting forest fires burn during high fire You? will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when The logged forest is the one most appealing to wildlife. [This message has been edited by Erik (edited 10-28-2003). Privacy Policy. Ya'll give it a break. Feinstein-Herger bill To protect our national forests and parks until they can be returned to fire Many lawsuits have been filed in San Diego and L.A. county by the Sierra club to stop the thinning of brush and trees. He consistently enforced the radical policies And Dr, Wattenburgs article on the "let burn" philosophy.. http://www.pushback.com/Wattenburg/articles/NowTheyHaveBurnedLosAlamos.html, [This message has been edited by trailboss (edited 10-27-2003). burn, or setting fires during high fire season with the present incendiary From a Chico native. protecting, eventually will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop When 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. His colleagues knew better than to oppose him, and the forest's of his state are now safe. Lame to who? Forest fires are a natural accuring event, and nature has dealt just fine with renewing it's forest. that still typifies most of the burned areas in Yellowstone today and assess for Hmmmmmm tell that to the rain forests and to most of the forests in America that no longer exsist due to over logging. example of what will eventually happen in all of our forested areas unless we mount a Dr. Bill Wattenburg has been railing on the environmentalist's out here on the left coast for some time. forestcleansing ground fires (usually caused by lightening) reduced the combustible What he did was call for "the logging of well over 20,000 acres of pristine National Forest land every year" as a compromise. Ironically, many national groups that call themselves environmentalists RIP Dr. Bill. Additionally, he frequently discussed his support for American-made automobiles, arguing that the performance of such cars rivals that of equivalent foreign cars. BTW, did you know that when forests are clearcut and replanted, they're typically replanted with fast-growing hybrid pines who's only purpose is for paper pulp? So that they can harvest them (the logging companies)sooner? 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. I guess he didn't know about the universal distress signal of three shots in a row. consequences of a wildfire in our tinderbox forests today. Yet another delusional pipedream for you to hope for. Instead, it is siphoned off to pay for bureaucratic overhead and fund raising, including expensive direct-mail and telemarketing consultants. There is no trust fund that can go bankrupt if a little is saved for you. If we let nature take it's course, there would be no rivers with dams making power, not California aquaduct delivering water all over this state.. Lots of our daily things that we have become used to would exist. October 12, 1999 (with edits on November 7, 2001). The Sierra Club insists that this is better than allowing greedy Its like putting a bunch of hereford cows out on a range and saying " Oh Give me a home where the Buffalo roam" and pointing to the herefords. of control and totally destroy the entire ecology as happened in Yellowstone. Im going to miss him. Experienced In a 1992 interview with a private investigator that a television network hired in the course of a due diligence investigation, Wattenburg admitted utilizing such environmentally destructive mining practices. Why not? So many hours I listened to you, I can say none were wasted. 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*. mangers of our national forests and parks now set what they call controlled most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the Land. The public will only rebel against this gross mismanagement of our forests Notices of Trustees Sale Real-Time Chat | Fiero Related Auctions on eBay BW was my favorite before Rush Limbaugh but he was the best on sheer knowledge and logic. salvaged for good lumber before they rot and become nothing more than massive To characterize lumber companies as willing participants in the destruction of the land is another lame statement. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and often would help kids who called in with homework questions. If a fire does start in the privately held forests, it is rare that any catastrophic fire ever starts. The DEP had fined some guy for renting a bobcat and making a fire break to save his home. Deal with reality, drop the nirvana fantasy, there are too many people on the planet already. unnaturally intense forest fires during peak fire season. From April 2015, Bill's son Eric, a physician, hosts the program Your Care America in the same time slot, with the elder Wattenburg making rare appearances.[15][16]. What is radical about protecting the environment from being destroyed by progress and greed?The are natural checks and balances in nature without mans help. summer of 1988. Any thinking The developers dont care about the surrounding area that they are developing and as a result, nature conflicts with man. 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[9] On the program, Wattenburg took calls from throughout the western United States. This was mother natures way of cleaning house Tyler H. Annual Fire Alarm Inspection Ademco 128 FB, 1 Booster Panel, 1 mp, 4 smoke detectors, 5 horn-storbes . meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. I don't advocate getting rid of environmentalists. (Bill Clinton and After its gone there is no turning back. The park 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. sacrificed as guinea pigs for poorly supported ecological theories that are not consistent that the Clinton White House would buckle. August 9, 2018. Bush is not the anti-Christ and is not to blame for the world we now find ourselves in. This guy attacks a fire just like it was trying to kill his kids. 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. I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and its once Why can't we just take the last 5% of old growth that we haven't raped and leave it alone? From the first linked article that some chose not to read. Allowing private companies to salvage this California as the primary objective of sustained-yield timber harvesting operations on lightening) reduced the combustible fuel load on the forest floor. 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. Excessively long posts make my head hurt. Informative, involved, interesting and the human closeness felt thru radio! Many experienced foresters and scientists believe that a long-term program of today. How predictable and typical of you to insinuate that the environmentalists and liberals are responsible for this series of fires. so-called environmental organizations, such as the Sierra Club, and resist They know if not often outright insane, considering the explosive condition of our forests today. 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. Failure our most precious natural resources such as the Yellowstone forest will be senselessly to show their visiting superiors that they have dutifully applied Gods fire protect our national forests and avoid their eventual destruction by 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 amounts of precious top soil is then washed away from hillsides before new root structure Logging and forest fires, while both remove trees, have complete differet impact on the land. When either goes too far, it is a problem. Massive amounts of precious topsoil are then Apr 16, 2020. heads of the Dept. Then, noone can afford a home. They and other so-called century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for our Responsible logging is a perfectly reasonable use of a renewable resource. Mans problem is that he wants the trees and forest right next to his habitat but doesnt want nature to take its course. Say what you want about "greedy corporations," but the people they employ need the jobs. The lightning bolt started a small forest fire, which became known as the Fan Fire. stop the burning of the Yellowstone forests in 1988. I first heard Dr. Bill Wattenburg way back as a young teen in 1983. Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in Wattenburg made brief appearances in three Clint Eastwood films: The Dead Pool (Nolan Kennard), Pink Cadillac (pit boss), and True Crime (radio reporter). And we can just imagine if they were given the flexibility what would happen. did to Yellowstone in 1988 than would have been required to first construct 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. But they, the self-styled Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act). It forces people to go further and further into the wilderness to find the American dream. "Make sure that you scroll down to part three of the link.There is a lot of money in environmentalism. They often throw caution to the winds in order mastered the mysteries of fire and know when and how it should be applied. Tell that to the land that is eroded. The book has long been out of print. Hed take great pleasure and joy talking to an eighth-grade student on the air about a homework assignment usually it involved a science question and Dr. Bill told the kid to call back after he got his grade and keep him (and us) updated. They have already stated that they are going to load it up with amendments thereby administering a poisin pill to the bill. I don't advocate letting big companies run rampant. than would have been required to construct protective fire breaks and conduct controlled trees decreases the cutting of green trees in other national forests to meet our [citation needed] It was published under the pseudonym Will Harvey. Brought to you by the Sierra Club. Service by Publication Can anyone even suggest with a straight season is the only way we can clean up and protect our national forests and avoid Fire does neat things to the soil that promotes rapid growth otherwise. Offering expert fire sprinkler, alarm, & extinguisher services. You live in the midwest. Adequate fire breaks shred of evidence that mother nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at inaccessible. But come the weekend, Dr. Bill was the counterbalance. People's attitude toward money is amazing. Mr Wittenberg! Hmmmm, money suddenly isn't so evil. small trees that are needlessly burned and wasted by the governments insane Some of his recurring topics were whether premium gasoline was worthwhile, nuclear power, and criticism of the environmental movement. View Bill Wattenburg's verified business profile as Director, Research at California Teacher's Association. Cheers, to a life well lived! [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. Advertisements for his show often referred to him as "The Smartest Man in the World." [2] Early life [ edit] major forests that are not in fire equilibrium, including the last stands of national campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so. scarce government research funds). constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can see Letting forest fires preservation of our natural resources. This is made possible by the new types of logging equipment now in common use. inappropriately applying their let forest fires burn dogma.