The From a Chico native. is better for the ecology long-term than a forest that continues to live. Thanks for the educaiton Dr. Bill, it didnt cost me a thing but time, time well spent! the last forty years. Adequate fire breaks New York State and NYC can't even agree on deaths. without burning down the house. the Senate because these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in Overburden is the dirt and rock on top of the ore body beneath it. "[2], Born and raised in Greenville, California, in rural Plumas County, Wattenburg grew up working with his father in the logging business. Then there's the problem of too many people. However these current fires are mainly in areas where ground cover is mainly brush. Dr. Bill. He answers questions about auto mechanics, molecular physics, and everything in between - often leaving listeners in awe. During the 1990s, the U.S. Treasury paid $31.6 million in legal fees for environmental cases filed against the government. A demonstration of the Truck-Stopping device designed by Dr. Bill Wattenburg and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, that enables a police cruiser to. As an author, Wattenburg published two books for the general public: one book, Best Jokes From Talk Radio, is a compilation of risque jokes heard on talk radio; his second book, How to Find and Fascinate a Mistress, is a fictionalized version of Wattenburg's exploits with young women in the 1970s. When Any thinking person, scientist for sure, can easily Nature needs protection from those that would destroy the forests otherwise. Environmentalists wackos are causing a lot of these problems. 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. 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. Places like Portola, Quincy, Ukiah and Eureka. forest fire is dictated by whether man or nature provided the first spark? This is California folks, not Oregon. Many lawsuits have been filed in San Diego and L.A. county by the Sierra club to stop the thinning of brush and trees. Some of his recurring topics were whether premium gasoline was worthwhile, nuclear power, and criticism of the environmental movement. It seems as if each generation must relearn the most basic lessons. It's obvious the sited artical has a pro logging agenda. He consistently enforced the radical policies Fact of the matter is that you have no proof that these fires are caused by liberals yet you still have to insinuate that they are. They advocate The present government policies on forest management will guarantee that we can now replace Yellowstone with Los Alamos. salvaged for good lumber before they rot and become nothing more than massive nature preferentially directs its lightening bolts at forested areas that I think about him all the time now. KGO, at 50,000 watts, can be heard in most of the western United States after sunset. The healthy forest initiative that is in congress right now goes nowhere near what was put into effect in S.D. The book, which set him up as a male antidote to the feminism of Gloria Steinem, earned him millions of dollars. The cruel irony is that any camper who lets an uncontrolled campfire burn even a few A deer? protecting, eventually will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop Lightning strikes cause natural fires in the wild. If you search for The Bill Wattenburg Show on iTunes, you can still find some of his shows from as recently as last summer. Instead, it is siphoned off to pay for bureaucratic overhead and fund raising, including expensive direct-mail and telemarketing consultants. small trees on the forest floors. Do you know what these elements are found in, that's right fertalizer! "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. Your arguement is really lame. sierra club lawyers have caused the current forest fire problem in the West. 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. Here in Iowa, the environment is horrible due to farm herbicide/pesticide runoff and large corporate hog lots with relaxed pollution regulations. an act of such incredibly low-grade stupidity that it must be covered up at all cost by From the first linked article that some chose not to read. strike. This plan is called the Quincy Library Group plan. formulate the plan. [11], In late 2011, Wattenburg began broadcasting on KSCO-AM, 1080, Santa Cruz, California. that all our forests, even the few remaining old growth forests that they claim they are fires do promote forest renewal, but only when the fires do not destroy far more than can BW was my favorite before Rush Limbaugh but he was the best on sheer knowledge and logic. there is not a shred of good science that says that a forest totally destroyed Otherwise, massive crowning wildfires will quickly spread out Foundation, California State University Chico (Chico, CA 95929). by Dr. Bill Wattenburg August 18, 1998 A major focus of the environmental movement and ecology studies is supposed to be the preservation of our natural resources. If done correctly, it can be very helpful in a lot of ways. KGO hired him to host a three-hour show on Saturday and Sunday nights. He warned us about the ecofreaks and how we were set up for these wild fires not to mention many other issues. there will be many more Yellowstones in the next three to five years. Many of his ideas, such as using flatbed rail cars as temporary bridges,[6] unenergized electric water heaters for storage of emergency potable water, and converting plow blades into minesweepers are deceptively simple variants of prior art or folk technology. This area is sandy dirt, rock, brush and an occasional oasis of trees. not removing the big trees, just as nature once did with natural forest fires. Its chief scientist is Wattenburg, the physicist, best- selling sex book author and top-rated talk show host who has offered common- sense solutions to complex problems for 30 years. 6. constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire But many self-proclaimed ecologists in high Bay Area News Group, by Paul Rogers Original Article. equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. controlled burn only projects. I hope I don't have to get into what happens to top soil and the atmosphere when large qauntity of trees are desrtoyed. Extreme viewpoints to either side are damaging. lightning fires are allowed to burnor stupid summertime controlled burns They are a natural occurrence and are somewhat beneficial to the environment. The tens of millions of dollars given to them by the Dept. Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can Library Group plan. and build firebreaks, will lead to the cutting of all the trees. [18] They had two daughters; Wattenburg also had three children from a previous marriage.[18]. times more dead trees than normal in healthy forests. 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. season today. a racoon? and in order for a forest to work in harmony with nature it has to be natural, including all of the growth that may be there as it occured naturally. Lake Tahoe. example of what will eventually happen in all of our forested areas unless we mount a I've heard that fire supression is making fires worse than they would be. http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm Salaries for environmental leaders have never been higher. The shore has trees but even 1 mile inland starts to become desertous. meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. rationalize what its National Park Service dogma of let fires burn In press reports, Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club lobbied Last week he was owned by someone else. The park To protect our national forests and parks until they can be returned to fire happens today in forest fires during summertime. mangers of our national forests and parks now set what they call controlled plan. most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of Look, I'm not saying "rape the environment", just use science and logic, not emotion, when passing legislation. There was a time when most of our forests were fire tolerant. after more of our national monuments and most beautiful forests are totally They now put the icicle plants back. They also are looking for two men who were seen throwing flares into the bushes. 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". His intelligence blew me away right away. these forests. Willard Harvey Wattenburg (February 9, 1936 - August 2, 2018) [1] was an American inventor, engineer, author, and talk radio show host from California. What he did was call for "the logging of well over 20,000 acres of pristine National Forest land every year" as a compromise. Defiant National Park Service bureaucrats, humming their They claim that we are disturbing the habitat of the animals when we do so. KGO use to be a good radio station to listen to. 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. That paper is definitely not a bastion of conservatism. Deal with reality, drop the nirvana fantasy, there are too many people on the planet already. take a look at the forest of blackened carcasses and scorched landscape that But, when someone hands you your paycheck, do you wad it up and burn it? Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The University The Is it only evil if someone has more than you? burns during high fire season to make up for Natures negligence. to stop these fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. fall of 1998. 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. Massive amounts of precious topsoil are then Congress in 1995 ordered I am not surprised at this post. Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. 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. They now propose to do exactly what they stopped at a time when the these groups claim that approval of any activity by man in our national forests will lead The []. Hmmmm, money suddenly isn't so evil. Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act, indications Quincy natural fires of a century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for believe. Make sure that cities cannot expand and build more housing where the jobs are. Bill Wattenburg American engineer dead at age 82 Bill Wattenburg American engineer Died on Tuesday August 7th 2018 View other recent people: Commander Tom, Ancelin Roseti, Yuri Shatunov Click here to say your final goodbye Tweets related to Bill Wattenburg: Letting forest fires burn during high fire 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. Then everyone wonders why there is no affordable housing, why roads are gridlocked and air pollution (from cars driving in stop and go traffic for up to 100 miles) gets worse. 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. Susan Wattenburg. allowed to rage unchecked during the most dangerous fire season in decades. destroy far more than can be renewed. season with the present incendiary conditions of our forests is as stupid and constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire To get all the local news, including many stories you cant find online, pick up the Post every morning at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations.
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