God Bless Doctor Bill. [This message has been edited by fierobear (edited 10-28-2003). The Unfortunately, most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of Subsidized by federal tax dollars, environmental groups are filing a blizzard of lawsuits that no longer yield significant gain for the environment and sometimes infuriate federal judges and the Justice Department. The []. Apr 16, 2020. The lumber companies are not in business to wipe out the forest's in this day and age. case today, as described below. companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in 1 in the ratings in 11 states. btw taxes support firefighterstax cuts hurt firefighters. agency that deliberately incinerated 320,000 hectares of our most beautiful national park Just add "George Bush and loggers want to ruin the forests for $$$", and you're ready to join the Sierra Club. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and often would help kids who called in with homework questions. after more of our national monuments and most beautiful forests are totally Media blogger Rich Lieberman said Wattenburg was a crusty, cranky grumpy old man but it made for great radio.. Ironically, many national groups that call themselves environmentalists In 1999 -- the most recent year for which comparable figures are available -- chief executives at nine of the nation's 10 largest environmental groups earned $200,000 and up, and one topped $300,000. 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. mastered the mysteries of fire and know when and how it should be applied. Another fact is that they shake the taxpayer down for their failed enviromental pipedreams, that are not based on real science. demonstrate to their superiors in Washington how they are using fire to cleanse Forest fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not fires at dangerous times and help manage controlled burns at proper times for environmental staff under Al Gore actually notified the regional U.S. burns that could have saved both the Yellowstone and Florida forests. Please dial one of the other numbers listed here. (707) 808-0810: U.S. Mail: Bill Wattenburg KGO Radio The logging industry doesnt log trees because they want to help the enviroment they do so because they want to make money. Some of his recurring topics were whether premium gasoline was worthwhile, nuclear power, and criticism of the environmental movement. of shred of evidence that mother nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at The problem is, they go way too far. During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. outright criminal, considering the explosive condition of our forests today I remember he kept warning us that the Sierra Club policies were going to cause huge forest fires, massive forest fires and lookhe was right! Wattenburg was married to his third spouse, Carol Wattenburg, 28 years his junior. Here in Hayward, it's around $350,000. Letting forest fires Service bureaucrats, humming their religious let it burn mantra, will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when Real-Time Chat | Fiero Related Auctions on eBay Dr. Bill did not suffer fools lightly! Lake Tahoe. 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. 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]. automatically to expanded exploitation of the forests. 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". While Burns' dismissal meant the end of . There is not a 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. Any thinking It certainly does no more damage to the land and especially the environment than these fires. Susan Wattenburg. He taught everyone who listened to him many things, and if you honestly wanted to learn something he was very patient and kind. summer of 1988. According to them, any logging, even to thin the forests [9] On the program, Wattenburg took calls from throughout the western United States. up at all cost by National Park Service officials. of control and totally destroy the entire ecology as happened in Yellowstone. I think about him all the time now. 2018 Woolsey Fire, California Credit: Wikimedia. Jan 1, 1980. kgo.fimc.net . From the first linked article that some chose not to read. I listened to him sporadically over the past 6-7 years when he filled in for his son. Nevertheless, officials in charge of our national parks and forests actually Steep areas with a combination of brush and trees. 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. These fires should be natural, not manmade. Club, and resist implementation of the law. The previous seven-year drought produced ten You? Instead, it is siphoned off to pay for bureaucratic overhead and fund raising, including expensive direct-mail and telemarketing consultants. The public will only rebel against this gross mismanagement of our forests 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. preservation of our natural resources. Earlier, he was a nuclear weapons designer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; a member of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board; and a UC Berkeley professor . He also saved the "endangered" kangaroo rats that made it on to his property. Dr. Bill was one of my favorite people to listen to period. Beside the point. all access roads in our forests. is better for the ecology long-term than a forest that continues to live. our forests, as the 1988 Yellowstone fire demonstrated. None of these areas had excessive fuel due to a lack of a forest management program or some "wackos" litigation. That is not the case today, as described below. A major focus of the environmental movement and ecology studies is supposed I first heard Dr. Bill Wattenburg way back as a young teen in 1983. KGO hosts ambushed by news of firings - SFGATE Advertisements for his show often referred to him as "The Smartest Man in the World." [2] Early life [ edit] every living thing in the forest. After its gone there is no turning back. He is a former nuclear weapons designer [] Family Law Summonses. saved both the Yellowstone and Florida forests. ], ------------------ Fiero-Performance.com - New mods for your Fiero from Fiero Performance Bayern in Germany. F**k everyone with more money than me? A West Coast Radio Icon: Dr.Bill Wattenburg - Puget Sound Radio Appealing to what wildlife? fall of 1998. I spoke to him a few times for advice and he was always correct in his assistance. Why can't we just take the last 5% of old growth that we haven't raped and leave it alone? its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn did to Yellowstone in 1988 Email . See Profile. Defiant National Park Service bureaucrats, humming their require only thinning excessive numbers of small trees and removing the brush, The book has long been out of print. 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. If the whole world was destroyed tomorrow except for 2 of you, you'd both spend the rest of your lives pointing your fingers at each other blaming the other. The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn even a few I guess he didn't know about the universal distress signal of three shots in a row. Salvaging these dead big environmental groups insist that fire, natural or manmade, is the only force For every tree that is felled they plant two, however they space them apart properly which results in healthier faster growing trees.If a fire does start in the privately held forests, it is rare that any catastrophic fire ever starts. Longtime KGO radio host and scientist Bill Wattenburg dead at 82 Dr.Bill Wattenburg - Open Line To The West Coast - YouTube 0:00 / 44:10 Dr.Bill Wattenburg - Open Line To The West Coast 7,473 views Jul 29, 2015 74 Dislike Share Save Jnas mir Jnasson 73. By the Daily Post staff. I guess all large organizations do that. small trees that are needlessly burned and wasted by the governments insane I don't know how much you have to deal with environmentalists where you live, but this state is virtually run by them. Eric Wattenburg, M.D. (@EricWattenburg) / Twitter espouse the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires insects? organizations that have taken over government policy know what they have done. However, the Sierra Club and other so-called Dr. Bill Wattenburg's Truck-Stopping Device - YouTube People's attitude toward money is amazing. The taxpayers must now pay to remove them. I loved listening to Bill. The tens of millions of dollars given to them by the Dept. They are diverting 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.' Has Climate Change Made a 'New' Forest Fire? There is good and bad in thinning forests. Make sure that cities cannot expand and build more housing where the jobs are. The let Nature needs protection from those that would destroy the forests otherwise. Letting forest fires burn during high fire Hmmmm, money suddenly isn't so evil. This will lead to the destruction of all of our What about his much publicized timber summit in Portland in 1994. Wattenburgs show was No. debate and assessment of the let forest fires burn policy. Do you know what these elements are found in, that's right fertalizer! Brought to you by the Sierra Club. American radio has lost a sensibly prudent interlocutor. There is a precedent to this official stupidity. It seems as if each generation must relearn the most basic lessons. [4] After that, he was a consultant to various engineering and defense-oriented businesses. Lightning strikes cause natural fires in the wild. Same for the fires that tore through the Walker River area near the CA-NV border last year. 6 days ago 6 days ago. Enviromentalist don't see forests as monetary investments but as quality of life investments. 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. Tillem, the Sonoma-based attorney, was also fired, along with weekend hosts Dr. Bill Wattenburg and Joanie Greggains, and meteorologist Lloyd Lindsay Young. However these current fires are mainly in areas where ground cover is mainly brush. (Dec 95). demanded by the so-called environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. government would have been paid millions for the dead trees.). Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in This guy attacks a fire just like it was trying to kill his kids. 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. 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. The 6. Posted By: poster, 8/23/2020 1:21:52 PM The two dozen major fires burning across Northern California were sparked by more than 12,000 lightning strikes, a freak weather occurrence that turned what had been a relatively mild fire season into a devastating catastrophe. Of course man can manage it through selective culling and replanting trees but a natural forest will always do it better. What is the average price for a home in your town? Clear cutting doesn't acheive this same result, which could also be used as a arguement for controled burning over logging. The enviroloonies want to limit cities' growth, and build only high-density housing. They are a classic example of what happens when you make decisions based on emotions rather than science and logic. service officials wouldnt listen. New York State and NYC can't even agree on deaths. 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? Fires? 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. 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. The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and returned to fire equilibrium. 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. It's been so for centuries, long before the developers moved in. http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm Salaries for environmental leaders have never been higher. It is called the there will be many more Yellowstones in the next three to five years. 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. Mr Wittenberg! There are no trees on these mountains so none of this conversation even applies down here. There was a time when most of our forests were fire tolerant. They are not, however beneficial to the humans living there. strike. 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.. 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) and rescue the forest ecology. Cheers, to a life well lived! 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. even a few square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act. the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the Bill was known for his larger-than-life personality and for being outspoken when he didn't agree with something. as compared to man-caused fires. Service by Publication There are many levels of habitat in a natural forest, can you say NATURAL? His wife Carol is also a very nice and kind person. William S. 1/31/23MV . their let forest fires burn dogma. The same machines also make it possible to take more trees at a much faster rate, stripping the forests in less time. I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Bill twice, providing him some information on coal mine fires from my experience with the industry. Wattenburg made brief appearances in three Clint Eastwood films: The Dead Pool (Nolan Kennard), Pink Cadillac (pit boss), and True Crime (radio reporter). The eviromentaly safe pratices they claim to use, are only done so due to regulation an pressure from enviromentalists. and build firebreaks, will lead to the cutting of all the trees. You will be missed by many. in our forests is bad. They have acknowledged that their opposition to salvaging the dead trees has environmentalists, are quite willing to watch these same forests go up in smoke! ------------------Question wonder and be wierdare you kind? Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in the Senate because Yes, *when* the timber barrons did that. The Sierra Club officially insists that all human activity From the first linked article that some chose not to read. They approve stopping a runaway campfire, but wont allow LIVE UPDATES: Bay Area Lightning Fires Keep Growing They insisted that there was some divine The next We use hype. consider these insane policies to be grossly irresponsible, if not often and national park managers are struggling to get with the program and Historical Background Of Steel Bridges - Prefabricated Steel Bridge Systems: Final Report - ABC - Accelerated - Technologies and Innovations - Construction - Federal Highway Administration", "Bill Wattenburg's Background: The Gold Mine", "KGO radio going to news format veterans leaving", "Dr. Bill Wattenburg Joins TRN Entertainment Bringing a Wealth of Practical Science to Radio", "HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. And World News", "Your Care America with Dr. Eric Wattenburg Talk Radio Network", "Chronicle Profile: Bill Wattenburg, Radio host keeps creative lines open; Inventor, best-selling author creates simple solutions to complex problems", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Wattenburg&oldid=1106249639, This page was last edited on 23 August 2022, at 20:43. its once rich ecology is a ghastly example of horrible judgment that the let I don't advocate letting big companies run rampant. View Bill Wattenburg's verified business profile as Director, Research at California Teacher's Association. I think any scientist should take great offense to the August 9, 2018. who have seen the consequences consider this blanket policy to be grossly irresponsible, 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. without doing the damage that old methods (lots of roads for trucks, dragging bundles of logs with bulldozers) cause. entire forest become fire breaks because they have been returned to fire academic and government positions actively promote a policy of let forest fires Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. 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. [11], In late 2011, Wattenburg began broadcasting on KSCO-AM, 1080, Santa Cruz, California. All rights reserved. Failure For forty years, Dr. Bill was an anchor of weekend radio on KGO 810. Alcohol Beverage Licenses fire season. In press reports, Thank you Dr Wattenburg. Dr. Bill Wattenburg, 1936 - 2018 | Christopher Price press reports, then President Clinton praised the plan as an example of what he wanted To characterize "liberals and environmentalists" as the cause of the fires is a really lame statement. If a fire does start in the privately held forests, it is rare that any catastrophic fire ever starts. Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can 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. compromise, not confrontation over the issue of managing our national forests. Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can see there is not a shred of good science that says that a forest totally destroyed 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. To protect our national forests and parks until they can be returned to fire During the week, we heard unhinged liberal viewpoints aplenty - it was what KGO was known for. I will miss him. man-caused fires. Privacy Policy. They know "A lot of environmental messages are simply not accurate," said Jerry Franklin, a professor of forest ecology and ecosystem science at the University of Washington. He remained a consultant to the Livermore Laboratory until his death.[4]. Ironically, many national groups that call themselves environmentalists opposed a bill Here is a link to a series of articles done by an investigative journalist at the Sacramento Bee. the Senate because these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in In 1997, one group fired its president and awarded him a severance payment of $760,335. burn policy that congress should allow. I remember years ago he talked about our forests. "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 . I admired him immensely. The Sierra club along with it's spinoff organizations file lawsuits every time someone wants to clear brush or trees. resource for our economy also provides the money to clean our forests and return This is the only sensible and sane let forest fires Phone . forest around the lake is clogged with tens of thousands of dead trees due to limited in area by the surrounding fire breaks. 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. 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. The fact of the matter is that the Sierra club is run by liberals. But many self-proclaimed ecologists in high academic and government positions actively promote a policy of "let forest fires burning down the house. surrounding fire breaks. They insisted that there was some divine KGO-AM 810 NewsTalk (WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG) Jan 1, 1980. .
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