[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. high fire season. The recent monstrous fires in Florida are another good (707) 808-0810: U.S. Mail: Bill Wattenburg KGO Radio Americans often torched brushy areas that Nature did not clean up in time. Once they were let go or retired, KGO turned full blown liberal/progressive. most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of In other words, some trees cannot reproduce without a fire. stations. Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act). Man stopped most natural forest fires a hundred years ago. 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. Notices of Public Sale Then controlled burns can be safely attempted in isolated sections and lightening 6 days ago 6 days ago. lightning fires are allowed to burnor stupid summertime controlled burns They know that all our forests, even the few require only thinning excessive numbers of small trees and removing the brush, 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. Nevertheless, officials in charge of our national parks and forests actually face that the progress of a raging forest fire is dictated by whether man or 1 in the ratings in 11 states. academic and government positions actively promote a policy of let forest fires 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. R.I.P. Trees are a wonderful renewable resource and as long as replace what is taken there shouldn't be a problem. Thank you Dr Wattenburg. Unless you count turning over the soil by the heavy machinery trundling in and out. Letting forest fires burn during high fire He consistently enforced the radical policies If done correctly, it can be very helpful in a lot of ways. Nature is logical. without burning down the house. Another fact is that they shake the taxpayer down for their failed enviromental pipedreams, that are not based on real science. Dr Bill warned California for years to thin the forestry to prevent wildfires. fall of 1998. Last week he was owned by someone else. 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.. [This message has been edited by Erik (edited 10-27-2003).]. Any thinking 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. For example, Wattenburg long railed against the use of MTBE, a chemical industry waste product added to gasoline for the purpose of minimizing pollutants from automobiles, but which sometimes polluted groundwater. inaccessible. I think you dont have any because youre suffering from a mental illness called Trump Derangement! According to them, any logging, even to thin the forests I was one of ten thousand called upon, too late, to try to stop the burning of the environmental groups insist that fire, natural or manmade, is the only force Forest fires are a natural accuring event, and nature has dealt just fine with renewing it's forest. A deer? We use hype. 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. American radio has lost a sensibly prudent interlocutor. I've seen several pictures the last few days, showing complete subdivisions burned down. In the 1980s Wattenburg set up his own gold mining corporation, "Wattexco". 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. 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*. understand what little deep science there is to this subject and the I was one of ten-thousand called upon, too late, to try to This is what happened I don't advocate letting big companies run rampant. We cut down 95%, isn't that enough? People's attitude toward money is amazing. their let forest fires burn dogma. 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. 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) Incendiary conditions now prevail because of decades of accumulated brush, preservation of our natural resources. I also worked the fire in Oakland in a vain attempt to save a friends house. Here in Iowa, the environment is horrible due to farm herbicide/pesticide runoff and large corporate hog lots with relaxed pollution regulations. Ya'll give it a break. They planted wildflowers, and the coastline started eroding rapidly. Actually, yes. Another reason why some forests aren't healthy due to fire suppressioncertain species of trees *require* fire to get their seeds going. Willard Wattenburg Obituary (1936 - 2018) - Chico, CA - Mercury News The who have seen the consequences consider this blanket policy to be grossly irresponsible, 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 Quincy Library Group plan, even though local Sierra Club members helped California fires: State, feds agree to thin millions of acres of forests. and knowledgeable scientists alike pleaded with the park officials to stop these Many other good scientists and experienced foresters I don't have a problem with logging as long as it's regulated. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and . Advertizing on PFF | Fiero Parts VendorsPFF Merchandise | Fiero Gallery | Ogre's Cave No garage to work on your car, no yard, virtually no peace or privacy? 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. only thinning excessive numbers of small trees and reducing the fuel and debris on 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). Interior Department has spent more money in the last ten years to 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. of let forest fires burn which they know can result in the total Firefighters and equipment must be able to reach any fire that breaks out during lightening strike. sacrificed as guinea pigs for poorly supported ecological theories that are not consistent Faster growing for what purpose? Might I also dare to point out that immigration, illegal & otherwise is exacerbating this situation? Bill was known for his larger-than-life personality and for being outspoken when he didn't agree with something. resource for our economy also provides the money to clean our forests and return today. [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. A bill to implement this plan 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. these forests. The people there need the jobs. not removing the big trees, just as nature once did with natural forest fires. lightening) reduced the combustible fuel load on the forest floor. This compromise pleased no one. fires or at least limit their extent during peak fire season. heads of the Dept. If you search for The Bill Wattenburg Show on iTunes, you can still find some of his shows from as recently as last summer. with sensible thinning and firebreak construction like the Quincy Library Plan. will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop unnatural forest Advertisements for his show often referred to him as "The Smartest Man in the World. 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. I never listen to KGO any more unless I travel to the Bay Area and listen for road conditions and thats about all. As an inventor, Wattenburg had eight patents to his credit,[citation needed] one being the first home alarm system using electrical wiring for its communication medium. scarce government research funds). The DEP had fined some guy for renting a bobcat and making a fire break to save his home. But many self-proclaimed ecologists in high Maybe we should close all of the farms in the midwest and let the plains grow strictly grasses so that the environment can be returned to it's former state.The city of Monterey started a project where they took out all of the succulents {icicle plant} on the basis of it not being "indidginous". 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. nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at forested areas that of control and totally destroy the entire ecology as happened in Yellowstone. 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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. Very few natural fires can occur today because most of our forests are not in 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. Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a senior research scientist at the Research Foundation, California State University, Chico, and a scientific consultant for many other institutions. Wattenburgs show was No. August 9, 2018. precious, renewable natural public resources to satisfy the political paranoia That undergrowth are the next generation of forests as the older trees die if left alone. When our forests were in fire This was mother natures way of cleaning house stopped all removal of the dead trees for five years now. 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. Both the Clinton White House and the so-called environmental May he rest in peace, leaving a great legacy of education, insight, invention and respect for the forest that he so loved. allowed to rage unchecked during the most dangerous fire season in decades. During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. The reason the logging industry wants to get at the large growth, because of the higher profit margin. The []. Quincy (Dec 95). burn policy that congress should allow. Eventually, large areas of the that only natural fires can cleanse our forests and renew them. Nobody good enough to fill your shoes. Please dial one of the other numbers listed here. 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 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. religious let it burn mantra, ordered that hundreds of lightening fires be unnaturally intense forest fires during peak fire season. Then controlled burns can be safely attempted in isolated sections and mangers of our national forests and parks now set what they call controlled These natural fires periodically burned the brush, debris, and He answers questions about auto mechanics, molecular physics, and everything in between - often leaving listeners in awe. themselves whether what was done in 1988 by park officials was an act of divine The fire was put out around 1:30 p.m. by . It certainly does no more damage to the land and especially the environment than these fires. Yup, now you're catching on. 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. That is especially true in the debate over one of America's most majestic landscapes: its Western evergreen forests. Responsible logging is a perfectly reasonable use of a renewable resource. our national forests will lead automatically to expanded exploitation of the He also saved the "endangered" kangaroo rats that made it on to his property. Why should they have fewer rights than anyone else? But man, he could be brutal if you tried to BS him. [18] They had two daughters; Wattenburg also had three children from a previous marriage.[18]. A portion of the article below was published in Science Magazine as a letter Club, and resist implementation of the law. Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can 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. wisdomor an act of such incredibly low-grade stupidity that it must be covered most of the taxpayers money that was allocated for forest improvement and However, the Sierra Club and other so-called Bill Wattenburg - Klamath Water Users Association | ZoomInfo Forest fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not I hope I don't have to get into what happens to top soil and the atmosphere when large qauntity of trees are desrtoyed. But many self-proclaimed our forests, as the 1988 Yellowstone fire demonstrated. were fire-tolerant. rationalize what its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn Al Gore appeared at Lake Tahoe in 1999 to announce the spending of a ones will likely be highly populated areas such as the Tahoe Basin where the Fortunately, the Quincy Library Group plan was finally approved by in the Senate in the The fire codes are already strict out here but once the firestorm starts nothings going to stop the buildings from burning.Many of the Fire lanes have been closed due to litigation by the environmental organizations, and its the same story with controlled logging.Hopefully we can have a common sense approach from here on out.Well have to see.For once we would like to have some Texas humidity oh, about 100 percent. So let's stop reaching to both extremes just to argue on a forum. Massive burn promoters are still trying to rationalize (with tens of millions of dollars of The investigator reported: "The first task was to cut 2,000,000 tons of 'overburden' dirt and rock off the top of the mountain and move it a half mile away, where it was dumped into a deep canyon. The I tried so hard in the days Dr. Bill was on KGO to get a clear signal in So. the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires as compared to Bush will probably use this as an example of the need to "thin" the forests in the best interests of the environment, the poor, poor endangered animals and peoples safety, but certainly not for the logging interests. Kindly explain this dumb statement in reference to the Constitution. There is also a place for selective cutting and timber management. Dr. Bill did not suffer fools lightly! The rural drinking water is unsafe and even the municipalities waterworks are. That paper is definitely not a bastion of conservatism. Although this article is a bit dated, Dr. Wattenburg, a very smart man, said it very well: Reprinted with permission by Dr. Bill Wattenburg. He had made campaign promises so he had to do something. The let forest fires burn dogma can at best be 369. I remember years ago he talked about our forests. Adequate fire breaks 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. Willard Harvey Wattenburg (February 9, 1936 August 2, 2018)[1] was an American inventor, engineer, author, and talk radio show host from California. 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 Sierra Club officially insists that all human activity be renewed. The public will only rebel against this gross mismanagement of our forests Where does it say that? While kind to children, Dr. 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. Extreme viewpoints to either side are damaging. The call to. After its gone there is no turning back. Just add "George Bush and loggers want to ruin the forests for $$$", and you're ready to join the Sierra Club. [This message has been edited by connecticutFIERO (edited 10-28-2003).]. CORRECTION: Crews extinguish fire at BWL Delta Energy Park plant the Senate because these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in But too many don't care about that as long as they can win their debate. [This message has been edited by JazzMan (edited 10-28-2003).]. Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the LandCompare the images below of a burned forest, an overgrown forest, and one that has been logged. burn, or setting fires during high fire season with the present incendiary They have acknowledged that their opposition to salvaging the dead trees has Missed his Sunday night shows as I would drive and tune in! Local forest rangers The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn 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. than would have been required to construct protective fire breaks and conduct controlled the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the The same machines also make it possible to take more trees at a much faster rate, stripping the forests in less time. a racoon? "But that's the way we sell messages in this society. companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in This area is sandy dirt, rock, brush and an occasional oasis of trees. Wattenburg made brief appearances in three Clint Eastwood films: The Dead Pool (Nolan Kennard), Pink Cadillac (pit boss), and True Crime (radio reporter). Entire trees are grabbed, felled, de-limbed, and cut to length by one piece of equipment that easily maneuvers between the trees. Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act, indications 52 Club Years Archive - Wildland Firefighter Foundation Typical drive-by comment! campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. to the foresteven on the hottest day in summer. It was formulated by local environmentalists, It forces people to go further and further into the wilderness to find the American dream. Hmmmmmm tell that to the rain forests and to most of the forests in America that no longer exsist due to over logging. Phone . lumber companies back into our forests. No lumber company will Tom Daschle fearing that he wouldn't get re-elected put his state on the fast track to having his forest's thinned. consequences of a wildfire in our tinderbox forests today. The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn even a few And we can just imagine if they were given the flexibility what would happen. Overburden is the dirt and rock on top of the ore body beneath it. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and often would help kids who called in with homework questions. 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. rich ecology is a ghastly example of horrible judgment that the let forest fires Service bureaucrats, humming their religious let it burn mantra, It is not that way anymore. Here in Hayward, it's around $350,000. these same forests go up in smoke! better for the ecology long-term than a forest that continues to live. Bay Area News Group, by Paul Rogers Original Article. They insisted that there was some divine Hmmmm like nature doesnt already do that by itself. breaks in national forests in northern California. The previous seven-year drought produced ten My prayers to his family, it must have been quite a ride all these years. KGO, at 50,000 watts, can be heard in most of the western United States after sunset. models predicted would never happen (as happened in the Lassen National Forest everything else in the forest. there will be many more Yellowstones in the next three to five years. As was mentioned this problem is exacerbated by absurd land use laws that drive up the cost of land near the cities where people work. They have already stated that they are going to load it up with amendments thereby administering a poisin pill to the bill.