that the Clinton White House would buckle. Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. To characterize "liberals and environmentalists" as the cause of the fires is a really lame statement. most of the taxpayers money that was allocated for forest improvement and
preservation of our natural resources. His intelligence blew me away right away. The book has long been out of print. that can restore our forests. I think any scientist should take great offense to the
even a few square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act. Money is flowing to conservation in unprecedented amounts, reaching $3.5 billion in 1999, up 94 percent from 1992. equilibrium. Fires? from the House to Dan Glickman]. all-consuming forest fires of today. That is sad. the last forty years. Lightning alone will eventually set fires in all these forests. season with the present incendiary conditions of our forests is as stupid and
hundred million dollars to clean up the forests and save the ecology of
Jan 1, 1980. kgo.fimc.net . surrounding fire breaks. From a Chico native. Forest Service are all adherents to the Sierra Club official policy of
national campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop unnatural forest
than would have been required to construct protective fire breaks and conduct controlled
My prayers go out to his family. 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.
A West Coast Radio Icon: Dr.Bill Wattenburg - Puget Sound Radio He advocated for nuclear energy, criticized the Sierra Club and argued that the failure to clear the high country of underbrush would lead to massive wildfires. Many experienced foresters and scientists believe that a long-term program of
In 2011, management flipped KGO from news talk to all news (a format change that flopped in the ratings) and Wattenburg lost his job along with hosts Gene burns, Gil Gross, Len Tillem, John Rothmann and others. religious let it burn mantra, ordered that hundreds of lightening fires be
That pretty much sums it up now doesn't it!? Forest Service rangers to drag their feet and delay granting contracts to lumber
to show their visiting superiors that they have dutifully applied Gods fire
Of course not, the trees are spaced so far apart which is not natural, that there is less chance of the fire to spread. But come the weekend, Dr. Bill was the counterbalance. Club, and resist implementation of the law. Any thinking person can easily understand and respect the vast difference
A natural forest may do better in some respects, but all those older trees that die are the fuel that's helping this fire spread, well, like wildfire, if you will. During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. eliminating all man and machine operations in our national forests and closing
They approve stopping a runaway campfire, but
believe. 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. Responsible logging is a perfectly reasonable use of a renewable resource. controlled burn only projects. Ironically, many national groups that call themselves environmentalists opposed a bill
Logging and forest fires, while both remove trees, have complete differet impact on the land. Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in the Senate because
recent monstrous fires in Florida are another good example of what will
Typical drive-by comment! The
The Sierra club along with it's spinoff organizations file lawsuits every time someone wants to clear brush or trees. Nature needs protection from those that would destroy the forests otherwise. You don't just plant trees and make an ecology. Near Delta Commerce Dr, Lansing, MI 48917. Do you know what these elements are found in, that's right fertalizer! Radio is no longer what it used to be. Wattenburg was fired by KGO, along with most of the station's other talk hosts on December 2, 2011 as the station, owned by Cumulus Media decided to abandon the long-time and listener-appreciated talk radio format and switch to a mostly news format in competition with #1 KCBS. Beside the point. 6 days ago 6 days ago. btw taxes support firefighterstax cuts hurt firefighters. of
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! square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act, while a government
Defiant National Park Service bureaucrats, humming their
have not told the public or the press that most western lumber mills have
Tom Daschle fearing that he wouldn't get re-elected put his state on the fast track to having his forest's thinned. everything else in the forest. This was mother natures way of cleaning housewithout
The trees are now
CHRONICLE PROFILE / Bill Wattenburg / Radio host keeps - SFGATE Cannot the Enviromentalist who started the fire be charged as terrorist under the Patriot Act and therefore be under Military courts? 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. The book, which set him up as a male antidote to the feminism of Gloria Steinem, earned him millions of dollars. incinerated and destroyed by massive wildfires that could have been prevented
Family Law Summonses. Failure
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. There is good and bad in thinning forests. in Yellowstone in the summer of 1988. According to them, any logging, even to thin the forests
forest fires burn dogma can at best be called a religion because
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].
Willard Wattenburg Obituary (1936 - 2018) - Chico, CA - Mercury News 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. You live in the midwest. [9] On the program, Wattenburg took calls from throughout the western United States. Yet many groups use science selectively to oppose thinning efforts that could reduce fire risk. [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. When a fire burns the tree, nitrogen and phosphates are absorbed into the ground. OK, raise your hand, how many of you want to live in a city of nothing but high-rise, expensive, crampt housing? These tree farms are not natural. They border on (or exceed) radical. They are not, however beneficial to the humans living there. There is a precedent to this official stupidity. mangers of our national forests and parks now set what they call controlled
selected U.S. This guy attacks a fire just like it was trying to kill his kids. What about his much publicized timber summit in Portland in 1994. most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of
the taxpayers to protect our forests. Failure to recognize this difference between the consequences of
these same forests go up in smoke! Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the LandCompare the images below of a burned forest, an overgrown forest, and one that has been logged. Although this article is a bit dated, Dr. Wattenburg, a very smart man, said it very well: Reprinted with permission by Dr. Bill Wattenburg. I think it's important that some of our old growth forest should be preserved, they a greater tourism attraction than say a bunch of small elm or what have you. was approved overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives by both parties. Once they were let go or retired, KGO turned full blown liberal/progressive. Then controlled burns can be safely attempted in isolated sections and lightening
Controled burning may work in some areas to prevent fire but not in others. Any thinking
How predictable and typical of you to insinuate that the environmentalists and liberals are responsible for this series of fires. Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act, indications
Phone .
The Bill Wattenburg Show | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn fire season and the deliberate removal of thousands of miles of roads built by
[citation needed] It was published under the pseudonym Will Harvey. century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for our
Oh yeah I can predict that answer. There was a time when most of our forests
Congress in 1995 ordered
I've seen several pictures the last few days, showing complete subdivisions burned down. Yellowstone forests in 1988. Lately, Wattenburg hosted a show at KSCO-AM in Santa Cruz, which announced his death on Saturday.
strike. 1 in the ratings in 11 states. our most precious natural resources such as the Yellowstone forest will be senselessly
A deer? consequences of fire in any given forest today. nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at forested areas that
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. 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. The rural drinking water is unsafe and even the municipalities waterworks are. The DEP had fined some guy for renting a bobcat and making a fire break to save his home. Corporations are groups of people. Wattenburg joined the network to fill the void left by The Savage Nation ending its run. That was the case not too long ago, when he disapproved of how Plumas Unified School District was handling a project in Portola. constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire
government firefighters and knowledgeable scientists alike pleaded with the park officials
From the first linked article that some chose not to read. August 9, 2018. Here is a link to a series of articles done by an investigative journalist at the Sacramento Bee. This was mother natures way of cleaning house
R.I.P. burn which they know can result in the total incineration of many of our forests and
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". Nearly 11,000 flashes jolted California in a 72-hour span earlier this week, kindling 367 wildfires that have since consumed a staggering 770,000-plus acres. Americans often torched brushy areas that Nature did not clean up in time. Local forest rangers
natural fires of a century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for
This is the Quincy Library Group plan. doubts this should take a look at the forest of blackened carcasses and scorched landscape
who insist that they are the only ones who have
without burning down the house. Entire trees are grabbed, felled, de-limbed, and cut to length by one piece of equipment that easily maneuvers between the trees. debris, and thickets of small trees on the forest floors. So that they can harvest them (the logging companies)sooner? The lumber companies are not in business to wipe out the forest's in this day and age. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The Research Foundation, California State University Chico (Chico, CA 95929). He had made campaign promises so he had to do something. From the first linked article that some chose not to read. He inspired me so much. forced the cutting of hundreds of thousands of green trees on other forests to
Trees are a wonderful renewable resource and as long as replace what is taken there shouldn't be a problem. [This message has been edited by connecticutFIERO (edited 10-28-2003).]. Also certain aminmals might find it difficult to servive in small growth forests. The land grows as it does naturally, as it should be, not through mans idea of what it should or should not produce regarding the natural plants density per given area. times more dead trees than normal in healthy forests. seems to believe. 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. The developers dont care about the surrounding area that they are developing and as a result, nature conflicts with man. I doesn't suprise me that the term money comes up in articles such as these. KGO use to be a good radio station to listen to. Real-Time Chat | Fiero Related Auctions on eBay Massive
Eventually, the entire forest becomes a fire break because it has
Is that your high moral ground? KSCO aired a two-hour retrospective of Wattenburgs radio career. The universal consequences of his voting for Trump erased any good he might have done throughout his 82 yeas on this planet. Experienced government firefighters
Nevertheless, officials in charge of our national parks and forests actually
RIP Dr. Bill. You will be missed by many. It's nature's way. these forests. The fact of the matter is that the Sierra club is run by liberals. local environmentalists, the U.S. Forest Service, and timber industry representatives
They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so. A portion of the article below was published in Science Magazine as a letter
and rescue the forest ecology. The call to. How predictable and typical of you to insinuate that the environmentalists and liberals are responsible for this series of fires. Faster growing for what purpose? [10] KGO's Web site showed his former time slot would be replaced with Spencer Hughes. They now propose to do exactly what they stopped at a time when the
sacrificed as guinea pigs for poorly supported ecological theories that are not consistent
It's obvious the sited artical has a pro logging agenda. Rest in Radio paradise Dr. we will miss you! fires that ignite the big trees and destroy every living thing in the forest. Just an awesome man! to the foresteven on the hottest day in summer. F**k everyone with more money than me? But much of it is not actually used to protect the environment. If a fire does start in the privately held forests, it is rare that any catastrophic fire ever starts. 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. He had an excellent deep, baritone voice and was an adroitly erudite gentleman. I've even heard rumors that terrorists are behind it. This unnatural fuel load creates intensely hot forest
Same could be said about the war in Iraq except the pipedream is a pipeline and the science is the art of deception. 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. Letting forest fires
Environmentalists wackos are causing a lot of these problems. They planted wildflowers, and the coastline started eroding rapidly. Email . California fires: State, feds agree to thin millions of acres of forests. They often throw caution to the winds in order
Thanks for the educaiton Dr. Bill, it didnt cost me a thing but time, time well spent! The
Patrick Moore the original founder of Grenpeace left that organization when it was taken over by the earth first types. 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? dollars of scarce research funds to cover up its acts of horrendous negligence
I've heard that fire supression is making fires worse than they would be. Government officials are now promoting exactly the opposite. ecologists in high academic and government positions actively promote a policy
The
Now They Have Burned Los Alamos - PushBack There are many levels of habitat in a natural forest, can you say NATURAL? fires. inaccessible. This is the only sensible and sane let forest fires
Has Climate Change Made a 'New' Forest Fire? A Q&A with Ecologist, Bill Should have listened to him back then! ordered that hundreds of lightening fires be allowed to rage unchecked during
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? season (late fall or early spring) is the only way we can clean up and
Groups like the Sierra Club like to pass slow (or no) growth measures, limiting the supply and driving up prices. I first heard Dr. Bill Wattenburg way back as a young teen in 1983. I was one of ten thousand called upon, too late, to try to stop the burning of the
Wattenburg was married to his third spouse, Carol Wattenburg, 28 years his junior. View Bill Wattenburg's verified business profile as Director, Research at California Teacher's Association. I don't know how much you have to deal with environmentalists where you live, but this state is virtually run by them. You? The few places to swim are filthy with germs and fecal matter. There is also a place for selective cutting and timber management. Adequate fire breaks
Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the Land.
Lansing - Fire Systems Of Michigan Might I also dare to point out that immigration, illegal & otherwise is exacerbating this situation? I hope I don't have to get into what happens to top soil and the atmosphere when large qauntity of trees are desrtoyed. this year). Appealing to what wildlife? not clean up in time. lightening fires can be allowed to burn in off-peak times because they will be
52 Club Years Archive - Wildland Firefighter Foundation inappropriately applying their let forest fires burn dogma. eventually happen in all of our forested areas unless we mount a national
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