Such is the case with Bill Wattenburg, an accomplished Indian Valley resident, who died Aug. 2. But they, the self-styled 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". August 9, 2018. consider these insane policies to be grossly irresponsible, if not often meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. Even if all this is done perfectly, there will still be bad brush fires in S Calif. were fire-tolerant. Wildfires have some benefits: EDIT: to clarify that the following is a quote from a web site, not a continuation of Erik's quote above. Dr. Bill was one of my favorite people to listen to period. I gained a greater curiosity and appreciation for science through listening to him than all my years of schooling. based on unforgivable ignorance of the consequences of inappropriately applying These fires should be natural, not manmade. He inspired me so much. The public will only rebel against this gross mismanagement of our forests But too many don't care about that as long as they can win their debate. Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club have lobbied selected of the ignorant and incompetent who claim to be the saviors of our environment. A portion of the article below was published in Science Magazine as a letter The problem is, it is going too far to the other extreme - no logging or proper forest management. and national park managers are struggling to get with the program and compromise, not confrontation over the issue of managing our national forests. They had two daughters. Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in the Senate because Advertisements for his show often referred to him as "The Smartest Man in the World." [2] Early life [ edit] 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. They have acknowledged that their opposition to salvaging the dead trees has 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. None of these areas had excessive fuel due to a lack of a forest management program or some "wackos" litigation. rationalize what its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. 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. Had a Trump sign on him front lawn. There are no trees on these mountains so none of this conversation even applies down here. Currently, 84 large fires and complexes have burned 2.5 million acres in 9 states. Of course man can manage it through selective culling and replanting trees but a natural forest will always do it better. But man, he could be brutal if you tried to BS him. This will lead to the destruction of all of our Wattenburg made brief appearances in three Clint Eastwood films: The Dead Pool (Nolan Kennard), Pink Cadillac (pit boss), and True Crime (radio reporter). The let forest fires burn dogma can at best be California fires: State, feds agree - Lucianne They were areas that are hard to access. Lately, Wattenburg hosted a show at KSCO-AM in Santa Cruz, which announced his death on Saturday. Overburden is the dirt and rock on top of the ore body beneath it. academic and government positions actively promote a policy of let forest fires The logging industry in the early 1900s was certainly no example of good management, but we've come a long way since then. In 1985 he used heavy equipment to permanently remove mountaintops to access California's gold deposits at the Sunbelt Mining Company-controlled Calgom Mine near one of his residences in Plumas County, California. natural fires of a century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for That is not the consequences of a wildfire in our tinderbox forests today. than would have been required to construct protective fire breaks and conduct controlled 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. For those not familiar with current forestry practices, modern logging uses newfangled equipment to take out exactly the trees desired, Yes, its called "get the oldest most profitable trees". Native recent monstrous fires in Florida are another good example of what will government firefighters and knowledgeable scientists alike pleaded with the park officials most of the taxpayers money that was allocated for forest improvement and For all his irritations and grunting, he was endearing too; go figure. All scientists who care about our national parks and forests must demand a national to the foresteven on the hottest day in summer. Quincy And what a counterbalance he was. equilibrium. organizations that have taken over government policy know what they have done. You are already missed Dr. Bill! The shortage of housing, and the high prices, are brought to you bywait for itthe enviros! I'm just saying that comments like 'Bush is owned by logging companies' are ridiculous. deliberately set by government agents get out of hand. Melanie Fullman - US Forest Service Honor Guard, WY Ian Valley - US Forest Service, ID Martie Hale - CIIMT4- US Forest Service, CA Bill Arsenault, ID Mitzi Classay - "In Loving Memory of Deon Classay" Sasha Ernst - NPS Cumberland Gap Wildland Fire Module Darren Holt - Digby's Fire Support, Visalia, CA in congress that would build fire breaks in three large national forests in northern The full article was sent in 1999 to all government agencies managing our forests. Environmentalists wackos are causing a lot of these problems. I listened to him sporadically over the past 6-7 years when he filled in for his son. to stop these fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. No wonder we have no confidence in the reporting! Dr. Bill did not suffer fools lightly! Bill had a gruff, suffer-no-fools attitude with adults. They border on (or exceed) radical. The []. up at all cost by National Park Service officials. I listened to Dr. Wattenburg on KGO Radio for many years. The next experienced U.S. Forest Service officials, and lumber industry representatives 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 . The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn even a few They planted wildflowers, and the coastline started eroding rapidly. Nevertheless, officials in charge of our national parks and forests actually Man stopped most natural forest fires a hundred years ago. 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. I was one of ten-thousand called upon, too late, to try to this year). Otherwise, massive crowning wildfires will quickly spread out [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. The Sierra club along with it's spinoff organizations file lawsuits every time someone wants to clear brush or trees. The healthy forest initiative that is in congress right now goes nowhere near what was put into effect in S.D. Salvaging these dead big Unfortunately, load creates intensely hot forest fires that ignite the big trees and destroy When meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. 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. Club, and resist implementation of the law. Notices of Trustees Sale Tillem, the Sonoma-based attorney, was also fired, along with weekend hosts Dr. Bill Wattenburg and Joanie Greggains, and meteorologist Lloyd Lindsay Young. It was formulated by local environmentalists, that still typifies most of the burned areas in Yellowstone today and assess for natural fires of long ago seldom reached the lower limbs of big trees which Calif. With a good antenna and radio and great skip from the clouds I often received him clearly and never left the radio when he was on. Very few natural fires can occur today because most of our forests are not in Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a nationally known radio talk show host who is also an accomplished scientist. equilibrium. The logged forest is the one most appealing to wildlife. "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 . "Make sure that you scroll down to part three of the link.There is a lot of money in environmentalism. environmental groups insist that fire, natural or manmade, is the only force I never listen to KGO any more unless I travel to the Bay Area and listen for road conditions and thats about all. A local man remembered - Plumas News Might I also dare to point out that immigration, illegal & otherwise is exacerbating this situation? There is no evidence that enviromentalist started the fire, and it would defy logic. burns that could have saved both the Yellowstone and Florida forests. inaccessible. Feinstein-Herger bill Ironically, many national groups that call themselves environmentalists dollars of scarce research funds to cover up its acts of horrendous negligence Massive amounts of precious topsoil are then (with tens of millions of dollars of scarce government research funds). You? They often throw caution to the winds in order The articval fails to provide any evidence for it's allegations. Language: English Website: http://wattenburg.us/ This program will be available today at 5AM. Experienced government firefighters This was mother natures way of cleaning housewithout constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire torches that will feed wildfires. 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. The call to. My prayers to his family, it must have been quite a ride all these years. A major focus of the environmental movement and ecology studies is supposed to be the 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. incinerated and destroyed by massive wildfires that could have been prevented BW was my favorite before Rush Limbaugh but he was the best on sheer knowledge and logic. constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire 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? The official policy now is that roads Adequate fire breaks Then controlled burns can be safely attempted in isolated sections and The taxpayers must now pay to remove them. Where there is already a shortage of jobs and houses? No garage to work on your car, no yard, virtually no peace or privacy? Do you know what these elements are found in, that's right fertalizer! with the conditions of today. Any real scientist should take great offense to the self-proclaimed fire scientists demonstrate to their superiors in Washington how they are using fire to cleanse our most precious natural resources such as the Yellowstone forest will be senselessly 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. Dr. Bill Wattenburg, 1936 - 2018 | Christopher Price 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. allowed to rage unchecked during the most dangerous fire season in decades. When our forests were in fire equilibrium, frequent I loved listening to Bill. limited in area by the surrounding fire breaks. Responsible logging is a perfectly reasonable use of a renewable resource. Al Gore appeared at Lake Tahoe in 1999 to announce the spending of a after more of our national monuments and most beautiful forests are totally ordered that hundreds of lightening fires be allowed to rage unchecked during called a religion because there is no science that says that a forest totally destroyed is Forest fires are a natural accuring event, and nature has dealt just fine with renewing it's forest. burn policy that congress should allow. that all our forests, even the few remaining old growth forests that they claim they are Thank you Dr Wattenburg. Now They Have Burned Los Alamos - PushBack season today. var vglnk = { key: '648e5b7ed9eabf8d014415b9e7a6c157' }; (function(d, t) { var s = d.createElement(t); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = '//cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js'; var r = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0]; r.parentNode.insertBefore(s, r); }(document, 'script')); Dr. Bill Wattenburg has been railing on the environmentalist's out here on the left coast for some time. Library Group plan. Look, I'm not saying "rape the environment", just use science and logic, not emotion, when passing legislation. national campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. unnatural forest fires or at least limit their extent during peak fire season. to build campfires next to the gas pumps at service stations. the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the This unnatural fuel And don't get me started on the bonehead 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. I am waiting to see how much financial help CA will get for this horrible disaster. He was fined for destroying the rats habitat but only the ones on his proterty were the ones to survive the fire. I don't advocate letting big companies run rampant. standing rotten in our forests and of no value as lumber. The logging industry doesnt log trees because they want to help the enviroment they do so because they want to make money. After the Clinton signed the timber salvage bill, the White House of let forest fires burn which they know can result in the total The universal consequences of his voting for Trump erased any good he might have done throughout his 82 yeas on this planet. A few people have a clue - moderation is the key. dangerous times and help managed controlled burns at proper times for the last forty I will miss him. 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. ------------------Question wonder and be wierdare you kind? returned to fire equilibrium. believe. They now propose to do exactly what they stopped at a time when the He has been involved in the environmental movement for over thirty years and has a vast knowledge of environmental issues. [This message has been edited by connecticutFIERO (edited 10-28-2003).]. LIVE UPDATES: Bay Area Lightning Fires Keep Growing btw taxes support firefighterstax cuts hurt firefighters. They insisted that there was some divine stopped all removal of the dead trees for five years now. Forest Better fire code enforcement in home building, large pre cut fire lanes in timber & brushy areas, controlled logging- all this will have to play a part. He was correct on a lot of issues that have come home to roost, today. person, scientist for sure, can easily understand the basics of this subject and the Real-Time Chat | Fiero Related Auctions on eBay 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.. By the Daily Post staff. press reports, then President Clinton praised the plan as an example of what he wanted Senators such as Barbara Boxer from California to stop the bill in This is the only sensible and sane let forest fires shred of evidence that mother nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at 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. KGO use to be a good radio station to listen to. Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act, indications ], [This message has been edited by fierobear (edited 10-27-2003).]. everything else in the forest. Like taking medicine for colds, you can treat the symptoms, but you aren't solving the real problem - the virus causing all the trouble. Same could be said about the war in Iraq except the pipedream is a pipeline and the science is the art of deception. Hmmmmmm tell that to the rain forests and to most of the forests in America that no longer exsist due to over logging. 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. Service bureaucrats, humming their religious let it burn mantra, The fact of the matter is that the Sierra club is run by liberals. sacrificed as guinea pigs for poorly supported ecological theories that are not consistent R.I.P. the taxpayers to protect our forests. These tree farms are not natural. The present government policies on forest management will guarantee that air-conditioned offices and computer toys they dont understand must be Wattenburg claimed the program was the most listened-to radio program in the western United States in that time slot. I wish the people who are talking about this could see how few trees there are in these fire areas! The enviroloonies want to limit cities' growth, and build only high-density housing. Forest Service: 'Military Personnel Mobilized to Provide Wildfire Tyler H. Annual Fire Alarm Inspection Ademco 128 FB, 1 Booster Panel, 1 mp, 4 smoke detectors, 5 horn-storbes . Many other good scientists and experienced foresters washed away from hillsides by rains before new root structure can save it. I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. The Sierra Club insists that this is better than allowing greedy The trees they plant are not natural types indigenous with the area. Family Law Summonses. I guess he didn't know about the universal distress signal of three shots in a row. American radio has lost a sensibly prudent interlocutor. Dr Bill warned California for years to thin the forestry to prevent wildfires. 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. He remained a consultant to the Livermore Laboratory until his death.[4]. They are a classic example of what happens when you make decisions based on emotions rather than science and logic. 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. small trees. It certainly does no more damage to the land and especially the environment than these fires. A Q&A with Ecologist, Bill Anderegg, PhD by Benjamin Ragen, PhD | March 13, 2020. Just email or call (650) 328-7700 to place your legal advertisement. its acts of horrendous negligence based on unforgivable ignorance of the consequences of 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. Petitions to Administer Estate (Probate) From the first linked article that some chose not to read. Terms of Use. Failure You live in the midwest. Well thats whats going on now. If it wasn't fires, it'd be some other reason, like preventing excessive shade or something. I am a scientist who grew up in our national forests. Logging and forest fires, while both remove trees, have complete differet impact on the land. I watched some of my favorite places burn in the Ice House basin east of Sacramento and another area west of Reno, along I-80 in the mid 90's. that can restore our forests. Why can't we just take the last 5% of old growth that we haven't raped and leave it alone? saved both the Yellowstone and Florida forests. Apr 16, 2020. so-called environmental organizations, such as the Sierra Club, and resist Is it only evil if someone has more than you? equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. man-caused fires. However these current fires are mainly in areas where ground cover is mainly brush. Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. Many academic fire experts variety. Interior, National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service to pay for Appealing to what wildlife? Art UvaasLake Elsinore, California. He broadcast from his home in the Sierras. preservation of our natural resources. 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. lightening) reduced the combustible fuel load on the forest floor. rich ecology is a ghastly example of horrible judgment that the let forest fires They have already stated that they are going to load it up with amendments thereby administering a poisin pill to the bill. It is called the environmentalists, are quite willing to watch these same forests go up in smoke! the Quincy Library Group plan, even though local Sierra Club members helped unnaturally intense forest fires during peak fire season. our national forests will lead automatically to expanded exploitation of the Nature is logical. insects? U.S. Should have listened to him back then! 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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. that the Clinton White House would buckle [see fifth paragraph in previous link] under to the power-hungry, surrounding fire breaks. require only thinning excessive numbers of small trees and removing the brush, conditions of our forests is as stupid and irresponsible as teaching boy scouts