Following up on Shashi’s report, I was at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese this morning.
This formerly wild meadow is located on the Cambridge, MA, USA (north) side of the Charles River, immediately east of the BU Bridge. It is separated from Memorial Drive by an on ramp. Before the irresponsible state agency and its friends started destroying, this meadow was home to a wide variety of free animals including many species of birds.
I saw six vehicles parked in the most environmentally sensitive part of the DNA, three had company markings, three did not. No vehicles were parked under Memorial Drive, in striking contrast to the workers on the BU Bridge project, normal for the destructive railroad workers. No vehicles were parked in the parking area near the entrance which was created as part of the BU Bridge project. In the past the railroaders had one vehicle in this one vehicle space.
The portapotty which formerly was next to the parking area had been moved to the most important part of the environmentally sensitive area, under the biggest tree.
A rail operated construction vehicle with crane was on the Grand Junction tracks, at the northern end of the portion next to the DNA. It was far from the Grand Junction Railroad bridge which has been the subject of the construction work. Planks ran most of the extent of the rail bridge between the tracks, protecting workers from falling into the river between the railroad ties.
When I got there, the Charles River White Geese were divided into many, probably family, groupings throughout the DNA and even onto the tracks.
As I was leaving, most of the groups were coming together in their favorite spot, under that big tree, in spite of the irresponsible vehicles parked in this environmentally important spot.
One of the company vehicles left, leaving two company vehicles and three privately owned vehicles.
The Cambridge City Council has since voted support for a new highway to bisect this environmentally sensitive area running from the north. The governor has overruled responsible bureaucrats and laid the ground work for another irresponsible highway running east and west. Cambridge and the state bureaucrats seem closer to more mass animal killings at Alewife because their agents are stalling things enough that the responsible alternative is rapidly disappearing. Tree destruction, of course, will be massive.
