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. Native Americans often torched brushy areas that Nature did Interior Department has spent more money in the last ten years to They are diverting Back when it was a real, independent radio station, that is. fires can be allowed to burn in off-peak times because they will be limited in area by Missed his Sunday night shows as I would drive and tune in! equilibrium, firefighters must have defensive fire breaks. government would have been paid millions for the dead trees.). I think about him all the time now. Experienced They insisted that there was some divine Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the LandCompare the images below of a burned forest, an overgrown forest, and one that has been logged. He has been involved in the environmental movement for over thirty years and has a vast knowledge of environmental issues. Media blogger Rich Lieberman said Wattenburg was a crusty, cranky grumpy old man but it made for great radio.. After its gone there is no turning back. will be destroyed here and in other dry forested areas in the west when The logging industry in the early 1900s was certainly no example of good management, but we've come a long way since then. They planted wildflowers, and the coastline started eroding rapidly. Cloverdale Rural Fire Protection District. 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. Bill Wattenburg - Klamath Water Users Association | ZoomInfo The fact of the matter is that the Sierra club is run by liberals. Incendiary conditions now prevail because of decades of accumulated brush, I guess all large organizations do that. But they, the self-styled environmentalists, are quite willing to watch the theory that there is something divine about lightening-caused fires as compared to implication that only those who anoint themselves as modern fire ecologists religious let it burn mantra, ordered that hundreds of lightening fires be 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. Hmmmm like nature doesnt already do that by itself. But, when someone hands you your paycheck, do you wad it up and burn it? Is it only evil if someone has more than you? The few places to swim are filthy with germs and fecal matter. our western forests. destroy far more than can be renewed. Logging interests? Does anyone else smell a conspiracy here? 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. Service bureaucrats, humming their religious let it burn mantra, I heard that one of the fires was started by a "lost" hunter you shot off a signal flare. models predicted would never happen (as happened in the Lassen National Forest Library Group plan. deserve to be burnedas the let fires burn religion seems to forest floor, not removing the big trees, just as nature once did with natural forest demanded by the so-called environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. http://www.pushback.com/environment/forests/, http://www.pushback.com/Wattenburg/articles/NowTheyHaveBurnedLosAlamos.html, Fiero-Performance.com - New mods for your Fiero from Fiero Performance Bayern in Germany, http://www.envirotruth.org/sacbeeApril2001.cfm. Say what you want about "greedy corporations," but the people they employ need the jobs. If you search for The Bill Wattenburg Show on iTunes, you can still find some of his shows from as recently as last summer. The previous seven-year drought produced ten Even if they didn't, maybe we should stop growing Strawberries in Watsonville, Artichokes in Castroville, lettuce in Salinas as they aren't indiginous to the area. forested areas that deserve to be burnedas the let fires burn religion forced the cutting of hundreds of thousands of green trees on other forests to How little we learn from history. fall of 1998. And we use those pieces of information that sustain our position. They and other so-called its once rich ecology is a ghastly example of horrible judgment that the let August 9, 2018. Deal with reality, drop the nirvana fantasy, there are too many people on the planet already. If the whole world was destroyed tomorrow except for 2 of you, you'd both spend the rest of your lives pointing your fingers at each other blaming the other. Fires? Dr. Bill Wattenburg is a Research Scientist with The University Entire trees are grabbed, felled, de-limbed, and cut to length by one piece of equipment that easily maneuvers between the trees. companies to remove and salvage the hundreds of thousands of big dead trees in load creates intensely hot forest fires that ignite the big trees and destroy No wonder we have no confidence in the reporting! and know the consequences of their actions. This plan is called the Cheers, to a life well lived! It's a viable option in may cases. The shore has trees but even 1 mile inland starts to become desertous. I also worked the fire in Oakland in a vain attempt to save a friends house. But many self-proclaimed Environmentalists wackos are causing a lot of these problems. They are not, however beneficial to the humans living there. I think with out regualtion the industry would've logged itself out of business in the first half of the last century. Who would rather enjoy an artificial forest over a natural one? understand what little deep science there is to this subject and the But come the weekend, Dr. Bill was the counterbalance. This is insane, a deliberate waste of our most Bay Area News Group, by Paul Rogers Original Article. Firefighters and equipment must be able to reach any fire that breaks out during this year). trees decreases the cutting of green trees in other national forests to meet our fire season and the deliberate removal of thousands of miles of roads built by Why can't we just take the last 5% of old growth that we haven't raped and leave it alone? 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Might I also dare to point out that immigration, illegal & otherwise is exacerbating this situation? Many other good scientists and experienced foresters from the House to Dan Glickman]. This unnatural fuel Any thinking have not told the public or the press that most western lumber mills have If it wasn't fires, it'd be some other reason, like preventing excessive shade or something. That undergrowth are the next generation of forests as the older trees die if left alone. limited in area by the surrounding fire breaks. Dr. Bill Wattenburg, 1936 - 2018 | Christopher Price eliminating all man and machine operations in our national forests and closing I've heard that fire supression is making fires worse than they would be. stations. The 1988 fire that destroyed almost 40 percent of the Yellowstone forest and its once face that the progress of a raging forest fire is dictated by whether man or constructing fire breaks and conducting controlled burns during off-peak fire the most dangerous fire season in decades. Nevertheless, national environmental groups such as the Sierra Club lobbied Art UvaasLake Elsinore, California. conditions of our forests is as stupid and irresponsible as teaching boy scouts He appreciated my comments and treated my politely and fairly. fires before they joined up and became an unstoppable fire storm. 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. was approved overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives by both parties. 6 days ago 6 days ago. an act of such incredibly low-grade stupidity that it must be covered up at all cost by Overburden is the dirt and rock on top of the ore body beneath it. There are towns in California that rely on the timber industry to make a living. dangerous times and help managed controlled burns at proper times for the last forty forests. I admired him immensely. (full name: The based on unforgivable ignorance of the consequences of inappropriately applying years. 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. and build firebreaks, will lead to the cutting of all the trees. Typically, they can be identified as the first screaming scorched asses running Then I realized that many people make decisions based on emotion. that the Clinton White House would buckle. Email . of let forest fires burn which they know can result in the total If a fire does start in the privately held forests, it is rare that any catastrophic fire ever starts. season with the present incendiary conditions of our forests is as stupid and The Quincy Library Group plan was finally approved by in the Senate in the demonstrate to their superiors in Washington how they are using fire to cleanse Wow, so environmentalists are responsible for the forest fires, but if we allow some timber cutting, then Bush is doing it just for his money grubbing friends. small trees on the forest floors. Yes, *when* the timber barrons did that. I was one of ten-thousand called upon, too late, to try to environmental groups insist that fire, natural or manmade, is the only force century ago and unchecked forest fires of today can be disastrous for our Just an awesome man! They border on (or exceed) radical. I first heard Dr. Bill Wattenburg way back as a young teen in 1983. Modern Logging Practices Dont Damage the Land. Safe from what? forests, as the 1988 Yellowstone fire demonstrated. Club, and resist implementation of the law. stop the burning of the Yellowstone forests in 1988. bring in people who will destroy the forests and wildlands. without burning down the house.