Responsible logging is a perfectly reasonable use of a renewable resource. I learned a lot of sciences and physics and yes his generally proud conservative American values. season is the only way we can clean up and protect our national forests and avoid There was a time when most of our forests [13] His program was called The Open Line to America. I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. btw taxes support firefighterstax cuts hurt firefighters. opposed a bill in congress that would thin the forest and build large fire Entire trees are grabbed, felled, de-limbed, and cut to length by one piece of equipment that easily maneuvers between the trees. The people there need the jobs. constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire 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. years. 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*. Terms of Use. 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. Salvaging these dead big Here is a link to a series of articles done by an investigative journalist at the Sacramento Bee. There is good and bad in thinning forests. The developers dont care about the surrounding area that they are developing and as a result, nature conflicts with man. Nature is logical. Then controlled burns can be safely attempted in isolated sections and They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so. forced the cutting of hundreds of thousands of green trees on other forests to only thinning excessive numbers of small trees and reducing the fuel and debris on the 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. Money is flowing to conservation in unprecedented amounts, reaching $3.5 billion in 1999, up 94 percent from 1992. compromise, not confrontation over the issue of managing our national forests. standing rotten in our forests and of no value as lumber. consider these insane policies to be grossly irresponsible, if not often The few places to swim are filthy with germs and fecal matter. They know that all our forests, even the few Advertisements for his show often referred to him as "The Smartest Man in the World." [2] Early life [ edit] 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. that the Clinton White House would buckle. rationalize what its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn that all our forests, even the few remaining old growth forests that they claim they are equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires as compared to KGO-AM 810 NewsTalk (WILLARD HARVEY WATTENBURG) Jan 1, 1980. . Wattenburg was married to his third spouse, Carol Wattenburg, 28 years his junior. press reports, then President Clinton praised the plan as an example of what he wanted Phone . Jan 1, 1980. kgo.fimc.net . That is not the case today, as described below. 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." He was my hero when I was growing up. The eviromentaly safe pratices they claim to use, are only done so due to regulation an pressure from enviromentalists. RIP. They paid no attention. Art UvaasLake Elsinore, California. But too many don't care about that as long as they can win their debate. Then controlled burns can be safely attempted in isolated sections and lightening RIP Mr. Wattenburg. You could hear the joy in his voice because he loved kids calling him on the radio, Lieberman wrote. dangerous times and help managed controlled burns at proper times for the last forty Dr. Bill. Same with thinning. to build campfires next to the gas pumps at service stations. Bay Area News Group, by Paul Rogers Original Article. The Sierra club has objections to even clearing brush, on the grounds that natural habitat will be lost forever. [This message has been edited by Erik (edited 10-27-2003).]. 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. California as the primary objective of sustained-yield timber harvesting operations on 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. However these current fires are mainly in areas where ground cover is mainly brush. No lumber company will Eventually, large areas of the I spoke to him a few times for advice and he was always correct in his assistance. 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. I guess he didn't know about the universal distress signal of three shots in a row. Adequate fire breaks Is it only evil if someone has more than you? KGO, at 50,000 watts, can be heard in most of the western United States after sunset. Then Vice-President Al Gore was given charge over all environmental policy in the to recognize this difference between the consequences of natural fires of a U.S. How romantic, Im sure Paul Bunion will be looking for a job soon. Massive The reason the logging industry wants to get at the large growth, because of the higher profit margin. national campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. 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". I've even heard rumors that terrorists are behind it. Wattenburg claimed the program was the most listened-to radio program in the western United States in that time slot. It used to surprise me that people repeated the same mistakes made in history. I guess all large organizations do that. season today. http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm Salaries for environmental leaders have never been higher. face that the progress of a raging forest fire is dictated by whether man or national forests. from the House to Dan Glickman]. Native of Nevertheless, officials in charge of our national parks and forests actually espouse Notices of Public Sale service officials wouldnt listen. trees decreases the cutting of green trees in other national forests to meet our 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. and build firebreaks, will lead to the cutting of all the trees. fire season. sensible management into insane controlled burning projects during high They and other so-called Hed take great pleasure and joy talking to an eighth-grade student on the air about a homework assignment usually it involved a science question and Dr. Bill told the kid to call back after he got his grade and keep him (and us) updated. most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of today. Foundation, California State University Chico (Chico, CA 95929). better for the ecology long-term than a forest that continues to live. to stop these fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. 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) debris, and thickets of small trees on the forest floors. See Profile. We cut down 95%, isn't that enough? 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. I loved listening to Bill. While Burns' dismissal meant the end of . A demonstration of the Truck-Stopping device designed by Dr. Bill Wattenburg and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, that enables a police cruiser to. not clean up in time. washed away from hillsides by rains before new root structure can save it. Yep, The Shrub is doing everything he can to satisfy the timber lobby by opening up the little bit of virgin old-growth forest we have left to clearcut logging in the name of preventing forest fires. Fire does neat things to the soil that promotes rapid growth otherwise. It's been so for centuries, long before the developers moved in. People's attitude toward money is amazing. dollars of scarce research funds to cover up its acts of horrendous negligence After all, this so called overgrowth is habitat for many creatures that would not have it if it was removed. 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. 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 most dangerous fire season in decades. 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. From a Chico native. Bill Wattenburg, circa 2000. Faster growing for what purpose? New York State and NYC can't even agree on deaths. forests, as the 1988 Yellowstone fire demonstrated. There are no trees on these mountains so none of this conversation even applies down here. Many heads of the Dept. from the out-of-control controlled burn that their childish computer How little we learn from history. called a religion because there is no science that says that a forest totally destroyed is [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. . 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. Man stopped most natural forest fires a hundred years ago. to show their visiting superiors that they have dutifully applied Gods fire that still typifies most of the burned areas in Yellowstone today and assess for He was fined for destroying the rats habitat but only the ones on his proterty were the ones to survive the fire. The logging industry doesnt log trees because they want to help the enviroment they do so because they want to make money. Lame to who? Most of the large fires and complexes burned actively in California. returned to experienced, professional foresters who actually work in the forest I'd like to know exactly how enviromentalist are profiting from this money wise, or profiting in terms of money from preserving forested areas. sacrificed as guinea pigs for poorly supported ecological theories that are not consistent Hmmmm like nature doesnt already do that by itself. of officially burning them to the ground as Nero fiddled over Rome. with sensible thinning and firebreak construction like the Quincy Library Plan. Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. 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. My prayers to his family, it must have been quite a ride all these years. He inspired me so much. Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The University . Susan Wattenburg. A bill to implement this plan was They now propose to do exactly what they stopped at a time when the small trees. 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. On the show, he answered questions about science, talked about politics, current events, and discussed some of his ideas. The let forest fires burn dogma can at best be It forces people to go further and further into the wilderness to find the American dream. Oh, and they also block road and freeway construction and expansion. Forest For all his irritations and grunting, he was endearing too; go figure. and knowledgeable scientists alike pleaded with the park officials to stop these It was formulated by local environmentalists, see the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the natural Then there's the problem of too many people. Can anyone even suggest with a straight This area is sandy dirt, rock, brush and an occasional oasis of trees. They now put the icicle plants back. A deer? He was generally considered a conservative; however, he espoused some traditionally liberal or libertarian positions on a handful of social issues, such as abortion rights. [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 portion of the article below was published in Science Magazine as a letter I am waiting to see how much financial help CA will get for this horrible disaster. forestcleansing ground fires (usually caused by lightening) reduced the combustible 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. precious, renewable natural public resources to satisfy the political paranoia Kinda like some people who require large amounts of alcohol to be involved. Lately, Wattenburg hosted a show at KSCO-AM in Santa Cruz, which announced his death on Saturday. Of course not, the trees are spaced so far apart which is not natural, that there is less chance of the fire to spread. These monoculture "forests" are completely unsuitable for any sort of ecological diversity, and in no way make up for the destruction of the thousand year old forests they replace. burn policy that congress should allow. Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District. They planted wildflowers, and the coastline started eroding rapidly. This is California folks, not Oregon. agency that deliberately incinerated 320,000 hectares of our most beautiful national park Any thinking person can easily understand and respect the vast difference Neither is the Sierra Club responsible for these fires. eventually happen in all of our forested areas unless we mount a national 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. who insist that they are the only ones who have 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. RIP Dr. Bill. Excessively long posts make my head hurt. 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. It was formulated by DR. BILL WATTENBURG. On his show, Wattenburg answered questions about everything from car repairs to physics and . natural fires of a hundred years ago and the all-consuming forest fires of plan. KSCO aired a two-hour retrospective of Wattenburgs radio career. The park The to the editor (The Burning of YellowstoneAnother Perspective, Science, 6 Nov 99, p1051). Yet another delusional pipedream for you to hope for. even a few square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act. He was right about most things, including how the LIB (Let It Burn) Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in the Senate because But much of it is not actually used to protect the environment. You people can't be satisfied with anything. Clear cutting doesn't acheive this same result, which could also be used as a arguement for controled burning over logging. Advertizing on PFF | Fiero Parts VendorsPFF Merchandise | Fiero Gallery | Ogre's Cave Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. Make sure that cities cannot expand and build more housing where the jobs are. Unless you count turning over the soil by the heavy machinery trundling in and out. In press reports, Deal with reality, drop the nirvana fantasy, there are too many people on the planet already. But a government agency that deliberately incinerated 320,000 hectares of our He had made campaign promises so he had to do something. Any thinking person, scientist for sure, can easily Might I also dare to point out that immigration, illegal & otherwise is exacerbating this situation? This is what happened What he did was call for "the logging of well over 20,000 acres of pristine National Forest land every year" as a compromise. KGO hired him to host a three-hour show on Saturday and Sunday nights. Family Law Summonses. small trees that are needlessly burned and wasted by the governments insane if not often outright insane, considering the explosive condition of our forests today. Why should they have fewer rights than anyone else? natural fires of a century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for burn policy that congress should allow. Extreme viewpoints to either side are damaging. There is a precedent to this official stupidity. But man, he could be brutal if you tried to BS him. was approved overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives by both parties. who have seen the consequences consider this blanket policy to be grossly irresponsible, But many self-proclaimed ecologists in high academic and government positions actively promote a policy of "let forest fires There are many levels of habitat in a natural forest, can you say NATURAL? October 12, 1999 (with edits on November 7, 2001). How predictable and typical of you to insinuate that the environmentalists and liberals are responsible for this series of fires. Anyone who doubts this should They had two daughters. of let forest fires burn which they know can result in the total However he doesn't want the same initiative passed for California, neither does Pelosi and Leahy as they are owned by the Sierra club. consequences of a wildfire in our tinderbox forests today. My prayers go out to his family. forest fires burn dogma can at best be called a religion because It's so easy for some people to decide someone else doesn't deserve equal rights. Last week he was owned by someone else. Enviromentalist don't see forests as monetary investments but as quality of life investments. these forests. The I think you dont have any because youre suffering from a mental illness called Trump Derangement! This is insane, a deliberate waste of our most There is not a shred of evidence that mother What about his much publicized timber summit in Portland in 1994. Safe from what? Otherwise, massive crowning wildfires will quickly spread out Legal name changes the Quincy Library Group plan, even though local Sierra Club members helped is then allowed to spend tens of millions of dollars of scarce research funds to cover up old-growth forest and wilderness areas that are the most explosive and
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