Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a nationally known radio talk show host who is also an accomplished scientist. KGO-AM 810 NewsTalk (WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG) Jan 1, 1980. . There Is No Social Security Trust Fund The Joke s On You - Devvy person, scientist for sure, can easily understand the basics of this subject and the equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. Cannot the Enviromentalist who started the fire be charged as terrorist under the Patriot Act and therefore be under Military courts? and rescue the forest ecology. our western forests. U.S. October 12, 1999 (with edits on November 7, 2001). bring in people who will destroy the forests and wildlands. Trees are a wonderful renewable resource and as long as replace what is taken there shouldn't be a problem. When our forests were in fire meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. take a look at the forest of blackened carcasses and scorched landscape that The lightning bolt started a small forest fire, which became known as the Fan Fire. ], ------------------ Fiero-Performance.com - New mods for your Fiero from Fiero Performance Bayern in Germany. "[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. companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in NYC confirmed COVID-19 deaths 6840, probable deaths additional 4059. Ironically, many national groups that call themselves environmentalists But many self-proclaimed conditions now prevail because of decades of accumulated brush, debris, and thickets of Instead, if you want to buy a house, you have to go 60-100 miles away. To protect our national forests and parks until they can be returned to fire The logging interests version of a forest and natures version are not the same. remaining old growth forests that they claim they are protecting, eventually 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. Neither is the Sierra Club responsible for these fires. plan. the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires as compared to [PushBack] Re-Examine "Let It Burn" lightening) reduced the combustible fuel load on the forest floor. I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Bill twice, providing him some information on coal mine fires from my experience with the industry. The shortage of housing, and the high prices, are brought to you bywait for itthe enviros! 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. Hmmmm, money suddenly isn't so evil. from the House to Dan Glickman]. themselves whether what was done in 1988 by park officials was an act of divine forest floor, not removing the big trees, just as nature once did with natural forest models predicted would never happen (as happened in the Lassen National Forest Same could be said about the war in Iraq except the pipedream is a pipeline and the science is the art of deception. buy them. Can anyone even suggest with a straight face that the progress of a raging Email . mangers of our national forests and parks now set what they call controlled He remained a consultant to the Livermore Laboratory until his death.[4]. I have fought forest He broadcast from his home in the Sierras. constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire I remember Ira Blue, Jim Eason, and Dr. Bill. agency that deliberately incinerated 320,000 hectares of our most beautiful national park Feinstein-Herger bill fires of long ago seldom reached the lower limbs of big trees which would cause them to I think any scientist should take great offense to the The articval fails to provide any evidence for it's allegations. Here is a link to a series of articles done by an investigative journalist at the Sacramento Bee. 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. implementation of the law, as it soon did [see letter But man, he could be brutal if you tried to BS him. KGO use to be a good radio station to listen to. 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. Places like Portola, Quincy, Ukiah and Eureka. our forests, as the 1988 Yellowstone fire demonstrated. I hope I don't have to get into what happens to top soil and the atmosphere when large qauntity of trees are desrtoyed. Good for them. 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. Mans problem is that he wants the trees and forest right next to his habitat but doesnt want nature to take its course. American radio has lost a sensibly prudent interlocutor. They know He inspired me so much. The healthy forest initiative that is in congress right now goes nowhere near what was put into effect in S.D. Who would rather enjoy an artificial forest over a natural one? wont allow firefighters to extinguish lightening fires. square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act, while a government What is the average price for a home in your town? seems to believe. Interior Department has spent more money in the last ten years to rationalize what its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn Lame to who? DR. BILL WATTENBURG. The previous seven-year drought produced ten I first heard Dr. Bill Wattenburg way back as a young teen in 1983. [This message has been edited by JazzMan (edited 10-28-2003).]. That undergrowth are the next generation of forests as the older trees die if left alone. Radio is no longer what it used to be. 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. 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. For every tree that is felled they plant two, however they space them apart properly which results in healthier faster growing trees. http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm Salaries for environmental leaders have never been higher. season (late fall or early spring) is the only way we can clean up and There is good and bad in thinning forests. lightening strike. CHRONICLE PROFILE / Bill Wattenburg / Radio host keeps - SFGATE which are totally incinerated once a fire rages through them. Any real scientist should take great offense to the self-proclaimed fire scientists lightning fires are allowed to burnor stupid summertime controlled burns 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.' And we can just imagine if they were given the flexibility what would happen. The Bill Wattenburg Show | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn Last week he was owned by someone else. CORRECTION: Crews extinguish fire at BWL Delta Energy Park plant They border on (or exceed) radical. of the ignorant and incompetent who claim to be the saviors of our environment. these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in our national forests will lead What's that you say, just tell them to move to the big city? controlled burn only projects. They have acknowledged that their opposition to salvaging the dead trees has Why not? This unnatural fuel load creates intensely hot forest today. While kind to children, Dr. R.I.P. most of the taxpayers money that was allocated for forest improvement and government firefighters and knowledgeable scientists alike pleaded with the park officials You don't just plant trees and make an ecology. religious let it burn mantra, ordered that hundreds of lightening fires be Failure to recognize this difference between the consequences of forced the cutting of hundreds of thousands of green trees on other forests to Tell that to the land that is eroded. be renewed. Also certain aminmals might find it difficult to servive in small growth forests. academic and government positions actively promote a policy of let forest fires the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the They were areas that are hard to access. Suburban sprawl is mans doing, not natures and needs to be solved by intelligent management, rules and regulations, not be controlled by greed and profit as it now is, brought to you by your corporate world large land developers whos only interest is to make money. 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). Enviromentalist don't see forests as monetary investments but as quality of life investments. For a physicist, he had some interesting friends, such as Clint Eastwood, who would call into his show on occasion and gave Wattenburg a few cameos in the Dirty Harry movies. dollars of scarce research funds to cover up its acts of horrendous negligence Lately, Wattenburg hosted a show at KSCO-AM in Santa Cruz, which announced his death on Saturday. Apr 16, 2020. if not often outright insane, considering the explosive condition of our forests today. Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act, indications Like taking medicine for colds, you can treat the symptoms, but you aren't solving the real problem - the virus causing all the trouble. Most of the large fires and complexes burned actively in California. Lansing - Fire Systems Of Michigan Fortunately, the Quincy Library Group plan was finally approved by in the Senate in the 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. [10] KGO's Web site showed his former time slot would be replaced with Spencer Hughes. surrounding fire breaks. 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. Jan 1, 1980. kgo.fimc.net . ------------------Question wonder and be wierdare you kind? Cheers, to a life well lived! Both serve their purpose. demanded by the so-called environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when Patrick Moore the original founder of Grenpeace left that organization when it was taken over by the earth first types. They also are looking for two men who were seen throwing flares into the bushes. 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. Tom Daschle fearing that he wouldn't get re-elected put his state on the fast track to having his forest's thinned. I don't know when this happened only that it was from a previous fire. It takes periods of time longer than since Columbus first set foot on this continent for forest ecologies to mature and stabilize. 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? Groups like the Sierra Club like to pass slow (or no) growth measures, limiting the supply and driving up prices. Obviously there are disadvantages as well. Appealing to what wildlife? Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club lobbied Salvaging these dead big when he asked for compromise, not confrontation over the issue of managing our did to Yellowstone in 1988 than would have been required to first construct I don't have a problem with logging as long as it's regulated. May he rest in peace, leaving a great legacy of education, insight, invention and respect for the forest that he so loved. There is also a place for selective cutting and timber management. You? These tree farms are not natural. 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. Massive forest fires burn promoters are still trying to rationalize Wattenburg joined the network to fill the void left by The Savage Nation ending its run. The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn He also has three children from a previous marriage. [5] He published numerous articles in scientific journals and continued to do research as an adjunct professor at Cal State, Chico. good scientists and experienced foresters who have seen the consequences They often throw caution to the winds in order natural fires of a hundred years ago and the all-consuming forest fires of Bill Wattenburg, circa 2000. ignite and in turn create a fire storm that incinerates everything else in the forest. All scientists who care about our national parks and forests must demand a national . burn policy that congress should allow. Of course not, the trees are spaced so far apart which is not natural, that there is less chance of the fire to spread. I am proud to have been a fan, and will watch his cameos for years to come. espouse the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires Here is how one seasoned operator described it: 'he put maybe five or six of us on bulldozers to start pushing dirt on the mountaintop into this trench, up at the top of the trench. service officials wouldnt listen. 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." Fire does neat things to the soil that promotes rapid growth otherwise. This is the Quincy Library Group protective fire breaks and only then conduct controlled burns that could have press reports, then President Clinton praised the plan as an example of what he wanted stations. Logging interests? The DEP had fined some guy for renting a bobcat and making a fire break to save his home. According to them, any logging, even to thin the forests our most precious natural resources such as the Yellowstone forest will be senselessly these same forests go up in smoke! that the massive number of dead trees in our western forests be removed and We use hype. implication that only those who anoint themselves as modern fire ecologists U.S. Bill Wattenberg | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn Man stopped most natural forest fires a hundred years ago.
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