Bob La Trémouille reports.
1. Introduction.
2. First Visit.
a. Damage.
b. Very miserable Charles River White Geese.
c. Response from passers by.
3. Second visit.
4. Summary.
1. Introduction.
I spent three hours at the Destroyed Nesting Area in two groupings.
I had been notified by a friend that there was massive destruction going on.
I drove by and saw the destruction from the street.
I went back, got a sign, leaflets and camera.
2. First Visit.
a. Damage.
The first visit started at 2 to 3 pm. There was still construction equipment at the Destroyed Nesting Area. I could not see the Charles River White Geese.
All of the land and vegetation, including trees, abutting the BU Bridge had been destroyed.
The land abutting the on ramp was destroyed almost up to the bottom of the hill and up to the stair case illegally installed by BU and the DCR in 1999. A very limited amount of ground vegetation was not destroyed nearest the illegal staircase on the eastern end.
Construction zone signs prohibited entrance from the ramp and BU Bridge entrance.
I took a lot of photographs.
b. Very miserable Charles River White Geese.
After awhile, my eyes adjusted to the difference in light, and I saw the gaggle huddled under the trees between the illegal staircase on the eastern end and the railroad tracks.
Eventually, the construction vehicles were removed, and I walked down the illegal staircase on the eastern end.
When they saw me, they came out of their funk, and walked toward what little vegetation had not been destroyed.
They walked into the core area where they have spent most of their lives since heartless pols and bureaucrats started starving them.
After awhile, a line of geese walked into the new wasteland on the north side and walked up to the hillside. This new wasteland held a lot of nests in the past. They then turned around and returned to their undestroyed corner, or rather to the corner which was not destroyed yesterday. The DCR has spent years destroying the vegetation in the southeast corner.
That area is now barred to the public by two construction zone signs.
c. Response from passers by.
Disgust, contempt for the vile state and city environmental destroyers.
One or more passers by shared with their experiences calling Cambridge City Councilors. Evaluation: Clearly rotten people.
3. Second visit.
The second visit was rush hour. It was very busy. There were a lot of concerned people.
4. Summary.
The state bureaucrats have spent years saying they would do no harm to the Charles River White Geese.
Then again, they have spent years calling the hundreds of trees they are about to destroy “healthy.”
Until the Boston Globe got interested.
Hundreds of healthy trees became diseased overnight.
Flat out liars.
