2. Magazine Beach Walled off from the Charles River, Phase 1.
3. Prior status at Magazine Beach, the norm everywhere else on the Charles River Basin.
4. Situation at Magazine Beach between phase 1 and phase 2 destruction.
5. Situation at Magazine Beach Phase 2 destruction.
6. Current situation at Destroyed Nesting Area.
7. The life forced on the Charles River White Geese.
8. Some of the food kept from the Charles River White Geese.
1. Introduction.
The outrage at Magazine Beach is deliberate.
The state wants all animals residing on the Charles River Basin to be destroyed.
This is the policy of the Department of Conservation and Recreation. I am quoting from the fine print where they call for “parkland” everywhere and define “parkland” as having no free animals.
There is nothing complicated about the situation. The state has people managing animals who are unfit to manage animals. They can get away with it in Cambridge because the city government is so extremely bad.
The DCR manager has bragged he is starving the Charles River White Geese. He is doing it as part of a bunch of environmentally destructive efforts achieved through outright lies and lies of omission.
The starvation comes from two walls of introduced bushes to keep the Charles River White Geese from their more than three decade habitat at Magazine Beach - the first wall at the river, and a second wall constructed to prevent food access through the only opening.
What makes it really complicated is the holier than thou nonsense coming out of the Cambridge Machine. They are belligerently lying using highly sophisticated techniques which communicate that really destructive people are something to be proud of. This is truly a massive machine which routinely lives in a world of make believe manufactured from the minds of who knows whom.
2. Magazine Beach Walled off from the Charles River, Phase 1.
This is the current status of Magazine Beach viewed from the Boston side:
Exactly ZERO public discussion has been allowed by Cambridge and the DCR as to whether the two would close off access between the Magazine Beach playing fields and the Charles River. These bushes have grown without limit since the two planted them.
The promise was, by the DCR, a lawn to the river, and by its front, the Charles River “Conservancy”, an improvement to swimming. Reality proves these blatant lies, but the Cambridge Machine lives in whatever “reality” the people pulling the strings tells the Cambridge Machine is reality. The DCR, CRC and Cambridge do the destruction, and the destruction is much larger than this particular outrage. The Cambridge Machine keeps in check a voter constituency which would be in arms if it were not for the non stop very skillful lies coming from the Machine.
The tiny opening in this massive wall used to be a boat dock, but the DCR and Cambridge have blocked access to the boat dock from the Cambridge side. And the DCR spent years insisting that it was limiting uses on the Charles to water related uses.
The manager of this operation has bragged that this outrage starves the Charles River White Geese by keeping out of their three decade feeding grounds.
To the right of this picture is the well designed Massachusetts Water Resources Authority pollution control plant. To its right are the BU Bridge and the Destroyed Nesting Area which has been converted into a ghetto for the beautiful Charles River White Geese who used to migrate over a one mile habitat centered on the BU Bridge. Most of the time, they lived at the Magazine Beach playing fields. In the spring, they lived at their Nesting Area to the east of the BU Bridge.
Thirty plus year residents casually, heartlessly starved.
The vegetation in the foreground is on the Boston side. It is a fraction of the size of the introduced wall. The vegetation in the next photo is about the same size as the foreground vegetation.
3. Prior status at Magazine Beach, the norm everywhere else on the Charles River Basin.
This is a photo of the area just to the west of Magazine Beach. The difference from what was at Magazine Beach before destruction is negligible.
This native vegetation is destroyed twice a year like all bordering vegetation on the Charles except for the bizarre stuff at the Magazine Beach playing fields. The bizarre introduced wall at Magazine Beach is never trimmed.
4. Situation at Magazine Beach between phase 1 and phase 2 destruction.
On planting the outrage blocking off Magazine Beach from the water, Cambridge and the DCR left an opening at the destroyed boat dock through which the Charles River White Geese entered and fed. This photo was taken by an Massachusetts Water Resources Authority official in 2006. The MWRA owns the well designed pollution control plant which is between the Magazine Beach playing fields and the BU Bridge and the Destroyed Nesting Area.
The vegetation to the right is the status of that bizarre wall in 2006. Note that in 2006, the boat dock was not accessible. The following is an additional photo from the same event and photographer. It shows the status of that bizarre wall in 2006. As I recall, the orangish items are at the location of the destroyed boat dock.
5. Situation at Magazine Beach Phase 2 destruction.
The DCR, Cambridge and friends were offended that the Charles River White Geese could get food by walking through the destroyed dock. In phase 2, Cambridge and the DCR created a second wall to prevent entrance through the destroyed boat dock, of course never explained or even publicized. This is the current situation. All access to food is blocked.
The vertical barriers have not been moved from the prior photo. The artificial bridge is unchanged as well. It is on the far side and left of the trash bin. The difference is the massive introduced wall of bushes, once again never trimmed.
6. Current situation at Destroyed Nesting Area.
Cambridge and the DCR have confined the Charles River White Geese in the area east of the BU Bridge. Their heartless and deliberate starvation has been prevented by volunteers feeding them.
This year Cambridge and the DCR introduced bushes into the area where, for most of the last more than 30 years, the Charles River White Geese have made most of their nests.
Compare these photos to the 2006 photos, and compare the 2006 photos to the present at the playing fields, photos above.
Remember the heartless starvation of the Charles River White Geese. Remember the mass animal kill at Alewife in October and November of 2011. There is no doubt what these bushes will look like in coming years.
And remember, the Cambridge Machine is now conducting a con game to fool people into thinking Cambridge and the DCR are responsible entities. The Cambridge Machine fought for destruction at the Alewife reservation by spending years yelling at private developers and telling people to ignore totally avoidable and, in fact, downright silly destruction. Now that Cambridge and the DCR have just indulged in mass animal killing at Alewife as part of truly bizarre environmental destruction there, the Cambridge Machine, after years of “defending” Alewife immediately ran around bragging about the destruction. And that mass killing is only phase 1. Now they are playing a con game to make perhaps total destruction there with corresponding killings.
I talk of Cambridge and the DCR in one breath. Games are always played with moneys. Money is shuffled to fit whatever explanation works. The reality is that nothing is done near Cambridge by the DCR without Cambridge support. And it goes much further than that. A few months ago, I quoted in these pages, an MIT official praising the head of the fake Neighborhood Association for his destructive behavior at Magazine Beach. MIT, Harvard and many other non profits subsidize the destruction and falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.”
7. The life forced on the Charles River White Geese.
The vegetation to the left and right is some of the few native bushes not destroyed between the BU Bridge (in the background) and the BU Boathouse (a block to the east) since the CRC started destroying native vegetation for the DCR. The nesting area was lush.
8. Some of the food kept from the Charles River White Geese.
