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Hobbies

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Wattenburg is an avid tennis player. He has played in many celebrity tennis tournaments +around the country with his friends from Hollywood. He says that the decision as to where he +travels nowadays depends a lot on where the sun is shining and where there is a tennis court. (We +had to wait two hours at the Berkeley Tennis Club for the first interview we got with him.)

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Access to tennis courts will certainly be an important consideration to him before working in +another city. We recommend that guaranteed membership in a first-class tennis club be part of +any offer made to him.

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In the summertime, he still runs the bulldozers he learned to operate when he worked with his +father in the logging woods years ago. He spends two to three weeks average each year fighting +forest fires as a bulldozer operator (Catskinner) on the west coast with U.S. Forest Service +firefighting crews. A U.S. Forest Service Supervisor in Plumas County, Calif., told us that, +“There are not many old pros like him left anymore who can chase a forest fire on a bulldozer in the night +over mountains so rugged that you can’t walk on them.” He said, “I mean fire crews won’t go +where he takes a bulldozer. This guy attacks a fire just like it was trying to kill his kids. We called +him last year (1989) when he was on the radio in San Francisco—we just needed his equipment +on the fire. He was on the fire himself four hours later.”

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Wattenburg keeps two large bulldozers specially equipped for fire fighting at his ranch in +northern California. He mentioned to us that nothing makes him so sad as to see the last of our +virgin forests go up in smoke. There was anger in his voice when he told us that a lot of the +heavy equipment operators nowadays (he called them hard-hat executives) just sit back and let a +fire go until it changes course on its own and burns itself out. “Then they brag about how they +bravely stopped this ten-thousand acre fire.” (We found him running a bulldozer when we +interviewed him the second time at his ranch in Northern California. He gave one of us, who +never learned to drive a car, a lesson on the bulldozer.)

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