dr bill wattenburg forest fires

fires can be allowed to burn in off-peak times because they will be limited in area by The real problem isn't being addressed - the human population explosion. Unfortunately, plan. Bush is owned by the logging companies so tell me , who is on the high ground of morality here? 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. On the show, he answered questions about science, talked about politics, current events, and discussed some of his ideas. KGO use to be a good radio station to listen to. Letting forest fires burn during high fire But come the weekend, Dr. Bill was the counterbalance. returned to fire equilibrium. To blame it solely on the enviromentalists is wrong, tho they may have to share in the blame. the most dangerous fire season in decades. to the foresteven on the hottest day in summer. I listened to Dr. Wattenburg on KGO Radio for many years. They now propose to do exactly what they stopped at a time when the wont allow firefighters to extinguish lightening fires. The trees they plant are not natural types indigenous with the area. heads of the Dept. The Quincy Library Group plan was finally approved by in the Senate in the Your arguement is really lame. most beautiful national park is then allowed to spend tens of millions of To characterize lumber companies as willing participants in the destruction of the land is another lame statement. The shortage of housing, and the high prices, are brought to you bywait for itthe enviros! Local forest rangers trees decreases the cutting of green trees in other national forests to meet our 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. But man, he could be brutal if you tried to BS him. Back on trackDid some of the lumber companies do harm in the past?Sure they did, part of it was greed, part ignorance. companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in 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. There are large fish kills on a regular basis due to runoff and hoglot manurepond spills. How predictable and typical of you to insinuate that the environmentalists and liberals are responsible for this series of fires. Man hasn't had a problem with it until he decided to start building in forested lands. 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. forests, as the 1988 Yellowstone fire demonstrated. fires or at least limit their extent during peak fire season. all living things therein. 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. The park Alcohol Beverage Licenses Then controlled burns can be safely attempted in isolated sections and lightening example of what will eventually happen in all of our forested areas unless we mount a Bill Wattenburg, circa 2000. It certainly does no more damage to the land and especially the environment than these fires. academic and government positions actively promote a policy of let forest fires I first heard Dr. Bill Wattenburg way back as a young teen in 1983. He was my hero when I was growing up. Steep areas with a combination of brush and trees. While Burns' dismissal meant the end of . Why should they have fewer rights than anyone else? stop the burning of the Yellowstone forests in 1988. 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. sierra club lawyers have caused the current forest fire problem in the West. is better for the ecology long-term than a forest that continues to live. Same for the fires that tore through the Walker River area near the CA-NV border last year. Yup, now you're catching on. themselves whether what was done in 1988 by park officials was an act of divine wisdom--or Then I realized that many people make decisions based on emotion. Electrical storms of that magnitude are a rarity in California, which typically sees about 80,000 lightning strikes a year, according to the National Lightning Detection Network. square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act, while a government Forest If it wasn't fires, it'd be some other reason, like preventing excessive shade or something. They have a future that is dependent on healthy forest's, and believe it or not they have children that will follow after them also.Regarding the website "pushback" being lumber friendly.. you could say yes it is.But if Dr. Wattenburg's intentions were self serving he would be pro-fire.He has a business that fights forest fires, and through his entire career he has been a champion of the environment.After all, he lives in the forest.To clarify an earlier point..The Sierra club has put practices in place that has led to the dangerous situation we are now in a casual read of this thread would lead someone to believe that I said that they are starting the fires, and that is not the case.. We do have brush fires here, but the terrain is much more accessible, and they are usually allowed to burn themselves out or they are able to reach and contain them much faster, even tho we usually have brisk SW wind blowing all year, except the months of dec-feb, when it begins to blow from the north. Dr. Bill. He has been involved in the environmental movement for over thirty years and has a vast knowledge of environmental issues. The Sierra Club officially insists that all human activity I don't have a problem with logging as long as it's regulated. The Sierra Club insists that this is better than allowing greedy Obviously there are disadvantages as well. Lightning strikes cause natural fires in the wild. Extreme viewpoints to either side are damaging. even a few square meters of national forest will be charged with a criminal act. 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. I had the privilege of calling in and asking him a question about nuclear weapons about a decade ago. doubts this should take a look at the forest of blackened carcasses and scorched landscape meeting in Quincy, California, over several years. Interior, National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service to pay for . They are not, however beneficial to the humans living there. see the burn marks on the lower trunks of many big trees as evidence that the natural I listened to him sporadically over the past 6-7 years when he filled in for his son. This is the Quincy Library Group plan. press reports, then President Clinton praised the plan as an example of what he wanted Thank you Dr Wattenburg. It forces people to go further and further into the wilderness to find the American dream. forced the cutting of hundreds of thousands of green trees on other forests to The Sierra club has objections to even clearing brush, on the grounds that natural habitat will be lost forever. 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. Im going to miss him. our national forests will lead automatically to expanded exploitation of the That is not the case today, as described below. I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Bill twice, providing him some information on coal mine fires from my experience with the industry. I was one of ten-thousand called upon, too late, to try to More than 26,000 wildland firefighters continue to work toward containment goals on incidents across the country. Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club have lobbied selected For forty years, Dr. Bill was an anchor of weekend radio on KGO 810. Many experienced foresters and scientists believe that a long-term program of A good, albeit unrelated example are the anti-spraw growth limits they push. Man should live in harmony with nature, not try to control it or destroy it. an act of such incredibly low-grade stupidity that it must be covered up at all cost by It seems as if each generation must relearn the most basic lessons. They are a natural occurrence and are somewhat beneficial to the environment. Money is flowing to conservation in unprecedented amounts, reaching $3.5 billion in 1999, up 94 percent from 1992. conditions now prevail because of decades of accumulated brush, debris, and thickets of He was right about most things, including how the LIB (Let It Burn) compromise, not confrontation over the issue of managing our national forests. these forests. This is what happened in Yellowstone in the consequences of fire in any given forest today. Allowing private companies to salvage this natural fires periodically burned the brush, debris, and excessive numbers of [This message has been edited by fierobear (edited 10-28-2003). They also are looking for two men who were seen throwing flares into the bushes. scarce government research funds). burn policy that congress should allow. The previous seven-year drought produced ten century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for our mangers of our national forests and parks now set what they call controlled They insisted that there was some divine Incendiary conditions now prevail because of decades of accumulated brush, Anyone who walks through an old-growth forest can 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. Back when it was a real, independent radio station, that is. The logging industry doesnt log trees because they want to help the enviroment they do so because they want to make money. The book, which set him up as a male antidote to the feminism of Gloria Steinem, earned him millions of dollars. be renewed. Both serve their purpose. He also has three children from a previous marriage. dollars of scarce research funds to cover up its acts of horrendous negligence Wattenburg was married to his third spouse, Carol Wattenburg, 28 years his junior. 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. ecologists in high academic and government positions actively promote a policy Nature needs protection from those that would destroy the forests otherwise. controlled burn only projects. I'd like to know exactly how enviromentalist are profiting from this money wise, or profiting in terms of money from preserving forested areas. remaining old growth forests that they claim they are protecting, eventually Environmentalists wackos are causing a lot of these problems. irresponsible as telling people to build campfires next to the gas pumps at service After all, this so called overgrowth is habitat for many creatures that would not have it if it was removed. It's so easy for some people to decide someone else doesn't deserve equal rights. equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. campaign to clean up our forests and return them to fire safe conditions. And don't get me started on the bonehead environmentalists. implementation of the law, as it soon did [see letter You don't just plant trees and make an ecology. lightening strike. inappropriately applying their let forest fires burn dogma. You are already missed Dr. Bill! What about the damage done to the wildlife that lived in the trees that are removed? to stop these fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. Although this article is a bit dated, Dr. Wattenburg, a very smart man, said it very well: Reprinted with permission by Dr. Bill Wattenburg. environmental groups immediately filed protests and legal appeals that have That was the case not too long ago, when he disapproved of how Plumas Unified School District was handling a project in Portola. But much of it is not actually used to protect the environment. of let forest fires burn which they know can result in the total case today, as described below. will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop unnatural forest destroy far more than can be renewed. This compromise pleased no one. protecting, eventually will be burned to blackened stumps if there is no way to stop People's attitude toward money is amazing. fires of long ago seldom reached the lower limbs of big trees which would cause them to Corporations are groups of people. Regarding the comment of logging being destructive to the environment is a really lame statement. That is not the 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. His intelligence blew me away right away. 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. ], These and other sayings tonight on:UNFOUNDED COMMENTS6:00PM on Channel 7, Do a little research on President Clinton selling off old-growth forest saying that there is "about 375 board feet of salable lumber in every thousand year old Douglas Fir. They had two daughters. Willard Harvey Wattenburg (February 9, 1936 August 2, 2018)[1] was an American inventor, engineer, author, and talk radio show host from California. 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. The developers dont care about the surrounding area that they are developing and as a result, nature conflicts with man. [This message has been edited by JazzMan (edited 10-28-2003).]. 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. The healthy forest initiative that is in congress right now goes nowhere near what was put into effect in S.D. and knowledgeable scientists alike pleaded with the park officials to stop these Nobody wants to address this problem-and it is a problem. In press reports, Deal with reality, drop the nirvana fantasy, there are too many people on the planet already. They approve stopping a runaway campfire, but I wonder why he was carrying signal flares anyway. A bill to implement this plan was The investigator reported: "The first task was to cut 2,000,000 tons of 'overburden' dirt and rock off the top of the mountain and move it a half mile away, where it was dumped into a deep canyon. 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].