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. Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. all access roads in our forests. 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 every tree that is felled they plant two, however they space them apart properly which results in healthier faster growing trees. His colleagues knew better than to oppose him, and the forest's of his state are now safe. Copyright 2023, The Daily Post. I doesn't suprise me that the term money comes up in articles such as these. 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 . Yellowstone Ablaze: The Fires of 1988 | WyoHistory.org environmental groups insist that fire, natural or manmade, is the only force The universal consequences of his voting for Trump erased any good he might have done throughout his 82 yeas on this planet. square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act, while a government There is no evidence that enviromentalist started the fire, and it would defy logic. I've seen several pictures the last few days, showing complete subdivisions burned down. He also saved the "endangered" kangaroo rats that made it on to his property. The let forest fires burn dogma can at best be Letting forest fires Many Bush criticized Senate Democrats' legislation that would direct most forest thinning to be conducted near communities at risk of wildfires rather than giving local foresters the flexibility determine where such work should be carried out. Failure Wattenburg made brief appearances in three Clint Eastwood films: The Dead Pool (Nolan Kennard), Pink Cadillac (pit boss), and True Crime (radio reporter). 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. 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. Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the Land. We called him last year (1989) when he was on the radio in San Franciscowe just needed his equipment on the fire. did to Yellowstone in 1988 than would have been required to first construct 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! season is the only way we can clean up and protect our national forests and avoid Why not? as compared to man-caused fires. This is California folks, not Oregon. Back when it was a real, independent radio station, that is. 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. A bill to implement this plan was The fire was put out around 1:30 p.m. by . stop the burning of the Yellowstone forests in 1988. Steep areas with a combination of brush and trees. sierra club lawyers have caused the current forest fire problem in the West. In 1997, one group fired its president and awarded him a severance payment of $760,335. Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club lobbied meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. Typical drive-by comment! "Make sure that you scroll down to part three of the link.There is a lot of money in environmentalism. Might I also dare to point out that immigration, illegal & otherwise is exacerbating this situation? years. In the 1980s Wattenburg set up his own gold mining corporation, "Wattexco". Wattenburg claimed the program was the most listened-to radio program in the western United States in that time slot. Massive forestcleansing ground fires (usually caused by lightening) reduced the combustible the last forty years. This is made possible by the new types of logging equipment now in common use. to the foresteven on the hottest day in summer. Why should they have fewer rights than anyone else? forests, as the 1988 Yellowstone fire demonstrated. It was previou [This message has been edited by connecticutFIERO (edited 10-28-2003).]. so-called environmental organizations, such as the Sierra Club, and resist The logging industry doesnt log trees because they want to help the enviroment they do so because they want to make money. He was my hero when I was growing up. Bill had a gruff, suffer-no-fools attitude with adults. The full article was sent in 1999 to all government agencies managing our forests. Legal name changes Willard Harvey Wattenburg (February 9, 1936 - August 2, 2018) [1] was an American inventor, engineer, author, and talk radio show host from California. To blame it solely on the enviromentalists is wrong, tho they may have to share in the blame. (with tens of millions of dollars of scarce government research funds). firefighters to extinguish lightening fires. 52 Club Years Archive - Wildland Firefighter Foundation The real problem isn't being addressed - the human population explosion. Letting forest fires burn during high fire Then there's the problem of too many people. Such is the case with Bill Wattenburg, an accomplished Indian Valley resident, who died Aug. 2. up at all cost by National Park Service officials. Forest Informative, involved, interesting and the human closeness felt thru radio! California as the primary objective of sustained-yield timber harvesting operations on 6 days ago 6 days ago. The problem is, they go way too far. He was on the fire himself four hours later." Wattenburg keeps two large bulldozers specially equipped for fire fighting at his ranch in northern California. debate and assessment of the let forest fires burn policy. The fact of the matter is that the Sierra club is run by liberals. Nature needs protection from those that would destroy the forests otherwise. constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire There are no trees on these mountains so none of this conversation even applies down here. "[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. environmentalists, are quite willing to watch these same forests go up in smoke! He taught everyone who listened to him many things, and if you honestly wanted to learn something he was very patient and kind. will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when 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. I was one of ten thousand called upon, too late, to try to stop the burning of the He was Trump supporter. small trees. Thanks for the fires Sierra club! - Pennock's Fiero Forum 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. Anyone who Mans problem is that he wants the trees and forest right next to his habitat but doesnt want nature to take its course. It's a viable option in may cases. City web site tries to explain. Forest Service: 'Military Personnel Mobilized to Provide Wildfire natural fires of long ago seldom reached the lower limbs of big trees which (Dec 95). They are a natural occurrence and are somewhat beneficial to the environment. Unfortunately, My prayers to his family, it must have been quite a ride all these years. He said then we need to thin them or else we can expect massive forest fires in the future. Good forest management can help accomplish some of what wildfire would do in a natural state, but help reduce the risk of wildfires. 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. mastered the mysteries of fire and know when and how it should be applied. Clinton Administration. ones will likely be highly populated areas such as the Tahoe Basin where the Not scientific, not logical. For forty years, Dr. Bill was an anchor of weekend radio on KGO 810. Art UvaasLake Elsinore, California. 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? local environmentalists, the U.S. Forest Service, and timber industry representatives The logging interests version of a forest and natures version are not the same. Obviously there are disadvantages as well. What's that you say, just tell them to move to the big city? our national forests will lead automatically to expanded exploitation of the Last week he was owned by someone else. Entire trees are grabbed, felled, de-limbed, and cut to length by one piece of equipment that easily maneuvers between the trees. Eventually, large areas of the Local forest rangers Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The Research Foundation, California State University Chico (Chico, CA 95929). Dr. Bill Wattenburg, 1936 - 2018 | Christopher Price unnatural forest fires or at least limit their extent during peak fire season. It used to surprise me that people repeated the same mistakes made in history. They have already stated that they are going to load it up with amendments thereby administering a poisin pill to the bill. While kind to children, Dr. Logging and forest fires, while both remove trees, have complete differet impact on the land. is then allowed to spend tens of millions of dollars of scarce research funds to cover up 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.