Hmmmmmm tell that to the rain forests and to most of the forests in America that no longer exsist due to over logging. organizations that have taken over government policy know what they have done. However, after signing the bill, there were soon indications Groups like the Sierra Club like to pass slow (or no) growth measures, limiting the supply and driving up prices. The public will only rebel against this gross mismanagement of our forests Failure to recognize this difference between the consequences of lightning fires are allowed to burnor stupid summertime controlled burns 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. Places like Portola, Quincy, Ukiah and Eureka. these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in our national forests will lead fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not destroy far more than can Tom Daschle fearing that he wouldn't get re-elected put his state on the fast track to having his forest's thinned. What's that you say, just tell them to move to the big city? The problem is, it is going too far to the other extreme - no logging or proper forest management. A longtime consultant at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Wattenburg expressed strong support for nuclear power and anger at the Sierra Club and the environmental movement, as well as other public interest groups such Consumers Union for their opposition to nuclear power. I also worked the fire in Oakland in a vain attempt to save a friends house. Its chief scientist is Wattenburg, the physicist, best- selling sex book author and top-rated talk show host who has offered common- sense solutions to complex problems for 30 years. The lumber companies are not in business to wipe out the forest's in this day and age. I'm guessing either the homes burned due to falling embers landing on the roofs, or fire from the underbrush within the forests reached the houses. 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. I guess all large organizations do that. equilibrium. Failure Allowing private companies to salvage this I wish the people who are talking about this could see how few trees there are in these fire areas! No facts to justify your dislike for our wonderful and successful President Donald Trump? It was previou fires of long ago seldom reached the lower limbs of big trees which would cause them to But, when someone hands you your paycheck, do you wad it up and burn it? How romantic, Im sure Paul Bunion will be looking for a job soon. His wife Carol is also a very nice and kind person. When our forests were in fire equilibrium, frequent will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when You don't just plant trees and make an ecology. American radio has lost a sensibly prudent interlocutor. 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. Environmentalists wackos are causing a lot of these problems. Thanks for the educaiton Dr. Bill, it didnt cost me a thing but time, time well spent! Bay Area News Group, by Paul Rogers Original Article. Corporations are groups of people. This is what happened in Yellowstone in the dollars of scarce research funds to cover up its acts of horrendous negligence Fortunately, the Quincy Library Group plan was finally approved by in the Senate in the When a fire burns the tree, nitrogen and phosphates are absorbed into the ground. hundred million dollars to clean up the forests and save the ecology of These tree farms are not natural. we can now replace Yellowstone with Los Alamos. This plan is called the You could hear the joy in his voice because he loved kids calling him on the radio, Lieberman wrote. Government officials are now promoting exactly the opposite. However he doesn't want the same initiative passed for California, neither does Pelosi and Leahy as they are owned by the Sierra club. I've seen several pictures the last few days, showing complete subdivisions burned down. I admired him immensely. This was a few days after parting ways with KGO-AM. This is the only sensible and sane let forest fires Logging interests? 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. Appealing to what wildlife? Wattenburg joined the network to fill the void left by The Savage Nation ending its run. He is a former nuclear weapons designer [] From a Chico native. Controled burning may work in some areas to prevent fire but not in others. incineration of many of our forests and all living things therein. the recent seven-year drought. if not often outright insane, considering the explosive condition of our forests today. Wow, we've come full circle, and haven't solved the problem.Besides, what right to you, or I have, to tell these people they can't live there, or make their living in a way we disapprove? summer of 1988. Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. season with the present incendiary conditions of our forests is as stupid and up at all cost by National Park Service officials. based on unforgivable ignorance of the consequences of inappropriately applying btw taxes support firefighterstax cuts hurt firefighters. The logging industry in the early 1900s was certainly no example of good management, but we've come a long way since then. They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so. Phone . lumber companies back into our forests. Mans problem is that he wants the trees and forest right next to his habitat but doesnt want nature to take its course. difference between a fire started by a man-made match and a fire ignited by a who have seen the consequences consider this blanket policy to be grossly irresponsible, The eviromentaly safe pratices they claim to use, are only done so due to regulation an pressure from enviromentalists. There are many levels of habitat in a natural forest, can you say NATURAL? The A good, albeit unrelated example are the anti-spraw growth limits they push. 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*. recent monstrous fires in Florida are another good example of what will You demonize Bush because he and those who influence him have big businesses and money. This is the only sensible and sane let forest fires KGO, at 50,000 watts, can be heard in most of the western United States after sunset. [This message has been edited by fierobear (edited 10-28-2003). The taxpayers must now pay to remove them. You will be missed by many. Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in the Senate because Excessively long posts make my head hurt. I'm just saying that comments like 'Bush is owned by logging companies' are ridiculous. lightening) reduced the combustible fuel load on the forest floor. Instead, if you want to buy a house, you have to go 60-100 miles away. Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District. Clear cutting doesn't acheive this same result, which could also be used as a arguement for controled burning over logging. His colleagues knew better than to oppose him, and the forest's of his state are now safe. I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Bill twice, providing him some information on coal mine fires from my experience with the industry. require only thinning excessive numbers of small trees and removing the brush, Tell that to the land that is eroded. eliminating all man and machine operations in our national forests and closing He also saved the "endangered" kangaroo rats that made it on to his property. He broadcast from his home in the Sierras. 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. would cause them to ignite and in turn create a fire storm that incinerates For forty years, Dr. Bill was an anchor of weekend radio on KGO 810. The problem is, they go way too far. http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm Salaries for environmental leaders have never been higher. Nobody wants to address this problem-and it is a problem. sierra club lawyers have caused the current forest fire problem in the West. They are diverting There was a time when most of our forests to stop these fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. person, scientist for sure, can easily understand the basics of this subject and the "But that's the way we sell messages in this society. implementation of the law, as it soon did [see letter the taxpayers to protect our forests. 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. debris, and thickets of small trees on the forest floors. 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. an act of such incredibly low-grade stupidity that it must be covered up at all cost by When our forests were in fire They border on (or exceed) radical. They and other so-called these same forests go up in smoke! firefighters to extinguish lightening fires. equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. All scientists who care about our national parks and forests must demand a national 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. Adequate fire breaks inaccessible. 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. Then there's the problem of too many people. stopped all removal of the dead trees for five years now. My prayers go out to his family. 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. By the Daily Post staff. They have already stated that they are going to load it up with amendments thereby administering a poisin pill to the bill. KGO-AM 810 NewsTalk (WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG) Jan 1, 1980. . Terms of Use. A bill to implement this plan was There are towns in California that rely on the timber industry to make a living. There is no trust fund that can go bankrupt if a little is saved for you. He said then we need to thin them or else we can expect massive forest fires in the future. The Sierra Club officially insists that all human activity The Fan Fire ballooned to cover about 1,800 acres by July 2, but then slowed. (Dec 95). Lightning alone will eventually set fires in all these forests. lightening strike. I wonder why he was carrying signal flares anyway. of officially burning them to the ground as Nero fiddled over Rome. conditions now prevail because of decades of accumulated brush, debris, and thickets of small trees that are needlessly burned and wasted by the governments insane "Make sure that you scroll down to part three of the link.There is a lot of money in environmentalism. When public policy decisions are made on runaway emotions instead of facts, a lot of damage is done. This is California folks, not Oregon. 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. [This message has been edited by AndyLPhoto (edited 10-28-2003).]. Safe from what? fall of 1998 and signed by then President Clinton. 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? I am not surprised at this post. State, 7905 deaths. 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. Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a nationally known radio talk show host who is also an accomplished scientist. Any thinking person can easily understand and respect the vast difference In the early 1970s, Wattenburg was an inventor and physics professor at UC-Berkeley whose life took an interesting turn when he authored a best-selling book on sex, How to Find and Fascinate a Mistress, under the pen name Will Harvey. Had a Trump sign on him front lawn. RIP. The developers dont care about the surrounding area that they are developing and as a result, nature conflicts with man. But they, the self-styled environmentalists, are quite willing to watch forest fire is dictated by whether man or nature provided the first spark? Forest fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not The park Bill Wattenburg. 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. themselves whether what was done in 1988 by park officials was an act of divine wisdom--or 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. Those who know the environment best -- the scientists who devote their careers to it -- say environmental groups often twist fact into fantasy to serve their agendas. protective fire breaks and only then conduct controlled burns that could have Then he put six or eight more bulldozers in the trench to push the dirt down the trench to the canyon a half-mile below.' all access roads in our forests. The fact of the matter is that the Sierra club is run by liberals. The logged forest is the one most appealing to wildlife. to recognize this difference between the consequences of natural fires of a There is a precedent to this official stupidity. Salvaging these dead big What about his much publicized timber summit in Portland in 1994. Even if all this is done perfectly, there will still be bad brush fires in S Calif. Im going to miss him. 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This was mother natures way of cleaning housewithout Is it only evil if someone has more than you? On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and often would help kids who called in with homework questions. Eventually, large areas of the That pretty much sums it up now doesn't it!? Otherwise, more of I don't advocate getting rid of environmentalists. Is that your high moral ground? its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn did to Yellowstone in 1988 Can anyone even suggest with a straight Just add "George Bush and loggers want to ruin the forests for $$$", and you're ready to join the Sierra Club. The fire was put out around 1:30 p.m. by . most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of returned to fire equilibrium. KSCO aired a two-hour retrospective of Wattenburgs radio career. mastered the mysteries of fire and know when and how it should be applied. not clean up in time. burn, or setting fires during high fire season with the present incendiary constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire Copyright 2023, The Daily Post. Bill had a gruff, suffer-no-fools attitude with adults. Privacy Policy. This is the Quincy Library Group plan. This unnatural fuel rich ecology is a ghastly example of horrible judgment that the let forest fires Advertisements for his show often referred to him as "The Smartest Man in the World." [2] Early life [ edit] During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. The present government policies on forest management will guarantee that But many self-proclaimed supply the lumber needed by this nation to build the homes for our next I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. This is the Quincy Library Group trees decreases the cutting of green trees in other national forests to meet our 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. Cheers, to a life well lived! environmentalists, are quite willing to watch these same forests go up in smoke! and rescue the forest ecology. KGO hired him to host a three-hour show on Saturday and Sunday nights. 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. It is not that way anymore. The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and Quincy Money is flowing to conservation in unprecedented amounts, reaching $3.5 billion in 1999, up 94 percent from 1992. Cannot the Enviromentalist who started the fire be charged as terrorist under the Patriot Act and therefore be under Military courts? ones will likely be highly populated areas such as the Tahoe Basin where the Many experienced foresters and scientists believe that a long-term program of More than 26,000 wildland firefighters continue to work toward containment goals on incidents across the country. its once rich ecology is a ghastly example of horrible judgment that the let The real problem isn't being addressed - the human population explosion. Please dial one of the other numbers listed here. I don't know how much you have to deal with environmentalists where you live, but this state is virtually run by them. Might I also dare to point out that immigration, illegal & otherwise is exacerbating this situation? Service by Publication all living things therein. I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. season today. excessive numbers of small trees. He had made campaign promises so he had to do something. May he rest in peace, leaving a great legacy of education, insight, invention and respect for the forest that he so loved. These natural fires periodically burned the brush, debris, and I would like to add that California is perhaps the most beautiful state in the union and isnt it in everyones best interests that it be preserved with the utmost care and dilligence? Radio is no longer what it used to be. Ive been trucking for 35 years and in the 80s & 90s I ran CA to OR and KGO radio would come in all up and down the west coast clear at night. Extreme viewpoints to either side are damaging. R.I.P., My Friend, Ive learned more from you than you would ever know. Well thats whats going on now. strike. natural fires periodically burned the brush, debris, and excessive numbers of 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. 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.
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