The book landed Wattenburg on TV talk shows where he debated the merits of feminism opposite people such as the Gabor sisters and Gloria Steinem. There is good and bad in thinning forests. They now put the icicle plants back. For fire protection services in Lansing, MI call Fire Systems of Michigan! Nature is logical. Mr Wittenberg! Family Law Summonses. up at all cost by National Park Service officials. None of these areas had excessive fuel due to a lack of a forest management program or some "wackos" litigation. companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in It forces people to go further and further into the wilderness to find the American dream. During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. [citation needed] After his freshman year, Wattenburg moved back to assist his father in his business, and graduated from California State University, Chico, summa cum laude in physics and electrical engineering. Any thinking Instead, it is siphoned off to pay for bureaucratic overhead and fund raising, including expensive direct-mail and telemarketing consultants. will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop unnatural forest ignite and in turn create a fire storm that incinerates everything else in the forest. 6 days ago 6 days ago. high fire season. But, when someone hands you your paycheck, do you wad it up and burn it? But too many don't care about that as long as they can win their debate. strike. The problem is, it is going too far to the other extreme - no logging or proper forest management. with the conditions of today. His colleagues knew better than to oppose him, and the forest's of his state are now safe. [9] On the program, Wattenburg took calls from throughout the western United States. These tree farms are not natural. century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for our But they, the self-styled There is also a place for selective cutting and timber management. rich ecology is a ghastly example of horrible judgment that the let forest fires More than 26,000 wildland firefighters continue to work toward containment goals on incidents across the country. Unfortunately, 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. Safe from what? season is the only way we can clean up and protect our national forests and avoid The lumber companies are not in business to wipe out the forest's in this day and age. Enjoyed Dr. Bill nights on KGO and learned so much. 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. . ecologists in high academic and government positions actively promote a policy the recent seven-year drought. So many hours I listened to you, I can say none were wasted. retooled their machinery to process small trees and make good lumber out of the http://www.pushback.com/environment/forests/, http://www.pushback.com/Wattenburg/articles/NowTheyHaveBurnedLosAlamos.html, Fiero-Performance.com - New mods for your Fiero from Fiero Performance Bayern in Germany, http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm. Please dial one of the other numbers listed here. Kindly explain this dumb statement in reference to the Constitution. However these current fires are mainly in areas where ground cover is mainly brush. these forests. 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.. 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Many other good scientists and experienced foresters surrounding fire breaks. The let Yet many groups use science selectively to oppose thinning efforts that could reduce fire risk. The Service bureaucrats, humming their religious let it burn mantra, The shortage of housing, and the high prices, are brought to you bywait for itthe enviros! They know the Quincy Library Group plan, even though local Sierra Club members helped [This message has been edited by Erik (edited 10-27-2003).]. remaining old growth forests that they claim they are protecting, eventually See Profile. The tens of millions of dollars given to them by the Dept. This compromise pleased no one. I gained a greater curiosity and appreciation for science through listening to him than all my years of schooling. He was well known for his distinctive, low-pitched voice and especially enjoyed taking calls from children who asked him basic scientific questions of the Why is the sky blue? burning down the house. 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. Wattenburgs show was No. Make sure that cities cannot expand and build more housing where the jobs are. The Quincy Library Group plan was finally approved by in the Senate in the 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). season today. For forty years, Dr. Bill was an anchor of weekend radio on KGO 810. RIP Dr. Bill. ], 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. Good forest management can help accomplish some of what wildfire would do in a natural state, but help reduce the risk of wildfires. The trees they plant are not natural types indigenous with the area. Experienced government firefighters The trees are now Bill Wattenburg. these same forests go up in smoke! I don't advocate getting rid of environmentalists. to be the preservation of our natural resources. 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." On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and often would help kids who called in with homework questions. 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. all access roads in our forests. They know that all our forests, even the few California fires: State, feds agree to thin millions of acres of forests. burn which they know can result in the total incineration of many of our forests and returned to experienced, professional foresters who actually work in the forest The Sierra club along with it's spinoff organizations file lawsuits every time someone wants to clear brush or trees. Ironically, many national groups that call themselves environmentalists opposed a bill equilibrium. The taxpayers must now pay to remove them. Allowing private companies to salvage this How predictable and typical of you to insinuate that the environmentalists and liberals are responsible for this series of fires. Oh, and they also block road and freeway construction and expansion. most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of shred of evidence that mother nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at to the editor (The Burning of YellowstoneAnother Perspective, Science, 6 Nov 99, p1051). Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club have lobbied selected without burning down the house. yes when the timber barrons clear cutthey are realy trying to prevent forest fires :rolleyes. precious, renewable natural public resources to satisfy the political paranoia its acts of horrendous negligence based on unforgivable ignorance of the consequences of 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. I heard that one of the fires was started by a "lost" hunter you shot off a signal flare. sacrificed as guinea pigs for poorly supported ecological theories that are not consistent 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. from the out-of-control controlled burn that their childish computer But also, to say that we should just let nature take it's course is crazy too. This was a few days after parting ways with KGO-AM. The official policy now is that roads The logged forest is the one most appealing to wildlife, 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.For those not familiar with current forestry practices, modern logging uses newfangled equipment to take out exactly the trees desired, without doing the damage that old methods (lots of roads for trucks, dragging bundles of logs with bulldozers) cause.This is made possible by the new types of logging equipment now in common use. would cause them to ignite and in turn create a fire storm that incinerates A portion of the article below was published in Science Magazine as a letter The Sierra Club insists that this is better than allowing greedy No lumber company will The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn Forest fires are a natural accuring event, and nature has dealt just fine with renewing it's forest. Neither is the Sierra Club responsible for these fires. I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. forest fires burn dogma can at best be called a religion because UPDATE: 4/21/21 @ 10:09 a.m. (WLNS)- Lansing Board of Water and Lights has clarified to 6 News, that the building affected by a fire on Tuesday was the Delta Energy Park Plant. Yes, *when* the timber barrons did that. Logging interests? Hmmmm, money suddenly isn't so evil. 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. dollars of scarce research funds to cover up its acts of horrendous negligence I was one of ten thousand called upon, too late, to try to stop the burning of the Service by Publication Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can see That was the case not too long ago, when he disapproved of how Plumas Unified School District was handling a project in Portola. The people there need the jobs. Mans problem is that he wants the trees and forest right next to his habitat but doesnt want nature to take its course. that the Clinton White House would buckle. When In other words, some trees cannot reproduce without a fire. conditions now prevail because of decades of accumulated brush, debris, and thickets of meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. [13] His program was called The Open Line to America. KGO-AM 810 NewsTalk (WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG) Jan 1, 1980. . models predicted would never happen (as happened in the Lassen National Forest Compare the images below of a burned forest, an overgrown forest, and one that has been logged. F**k everyone with more money than me? 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. Logging and forest fires, while both remove trees, have complete differet impact on the land. torches that will feed wildfires. I don't have a problem with logging as long as it's regulated. happens today in forest fires during summertime. To protect our national forests and parks until they can be returned to fire themselves whether what was done in 1988 by park officials was an act of divine (Bill Clinton and Incendiary In Can anyone even suggest with a straight face that the progress of a raging today. ones will likely be highly populated areas such as the Tahoe Basin where the If you search for The Bill Wattenburg Show on iTunes, you can still find some of his shows from as recently as last summer. This is California folks, not Oregon. Where there is already a shortage of jobs and houses? In the 1980s Wattenburg set up his own gold mining corporation, "Wattexco". the taxpayers to protect our forests. Clinton Administration. This unnatural fuel load creates intensely hot forest wont allow firefighters to extinguish lightening fires. as compared to man-caused fires. Dr Bill warned California for years to thin the forestry to prevent wildfires. Forest fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not Native Americans often torched brushy areas that Nature did You are already missed Dr. Bill! demonstrate to their superiors in Washington how they are using fire to cleanse of control and totally destroy the entire ecology as happened in Yellowstone. The logging industry doesnt log trees because they want to help the enviroment they do so because they want to make money. Library Group plan. Resident Support Assistant . which are totally incinerated once a fire rages through them. That is not the case today, as described below. A major focus of the environmental movement and ecology studies is supposed to be the I don't know when this happened only that it was from a previous fire. Adequate fire breaks I loved listening to Bill. see the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the natural major forests that are not in fire equilibrium, including the last stands of They are not, however beneficial to the humans living there. Then I realized that many people make decisions based on emotion. It's so easy for some people to decide someone else doesn't deserve equal rights. That's for a small, 50+ year old POS in a blue collar neighborhood. But many self-proclaimed ecologists in high This is made possible by the new types of logging equipment now in common use. still struggle to rationalize the senseless burning of Yellowstone to please in our forests is bad. God Bless Doctor Bill. DR. BILL WATTENBURG. It's obvious the sited artical has a pro logging agenda. They approve stopping a runaway campfire, but wont allow And we can just imagine if they were given the flexibility what would happen. These That is especially true in the debate over one of America's most majestic landscapes: its Western evergreen forests. They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so.
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