Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Charles River: DCR Chair Resigns; DCR Lead Presenter Disappears?

1. Reports from the Charles River, Logging.  Personnel Changes at the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
a. Summary.
(1) Personnel Changes at DCR.
(2) General.
b. Introductory.
c. Reason for massive tree destruction changes again.
(1) General.
(2) A Culture of Outrageous Lies.
(3) Won’t it look great in 40 years?
(4) We’re putting in saplings!!!!
(5) Supposedly diseased trees.
(6) Norway Maples, shudder.
(7) Bike Highway.  Pedestrian highway.
(8) Apparently clear fraud.
(9) Cambridge City Council.
d. Summation.
2. Contact Information to prevent this outrage.
a. Officials.
b. Friends of the White Geese.
3. Personnel Changes, DCR.
a. Commissioner.
b. Lead presenter, Magazine Beach con game.
4. Past Reports in THIS series, and key communications to government agencies.
a. Communications to Public Agencies — Cambridge City Council, destruction plans; MassDOT proposing sanctions; DCR adding to the sanctions.
b. Past Reports in this series.



1. Reports from the Charles River, Logging.  Personnel Changes at the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

a. Summary.

(1) Personnel Changes at DCR.

This report will be presented in detail in section 3, below.

I was informed by Xavier Dietrich that the head of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation suddenly resigned her post.

On investigation, the timing is striking.

Additionally, the lead presenter at the first of the DCR’s fake review meetings concerning the Charles River was not present at the second presentation, with interesting possible interpretation as well.

(2) General.

This blog has been viewed by more than 110,000 times from nearly a hundred different countries.

To make certain that new readers know the latest about this imminent outrage, I am standardizing information in this subsection and to the end of Section 2.  Standardization is subject to regular edits to communicate particular points better.

Section 1.a.(2) is new as a general introduction. Section 3 is new and is the purpose of the report.  Section 4 is updated each time to reflect the most recent entries.  Section 2 is pretty firm, but contact information is updated as appropriate.

I have been delinquent in these reports in that there is one section for which I have not presented photos.

What happened is that this section was made ready for destruction after the information presented earlier.  Regrettably, the delay winds up with tree photos out of season.

b. Introductory.

Friends of the White Geese is a Massachusetts Non Profit Organization devoted to defending the Charles River from environmental, mostly governmental, depredations.  The most destructive entities are the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (formerly the Metropolitan District Commission) and the City of Cambridge, MA.  We have been registered with the Massachusetts Attorney General since 2002.

The Charles River White Geese are a valuable and loved gaggle of White Geese who have lived on the banks of the Charles River since 1981 in a mile long habitat centered on the BU Bridge.  They are a mix primarily of White China and Emden Geese.  The gaggle includes a number of members (and one Patriarch) of Toulouse Goose descent.

The Charles River White Geese have a clear governmental structure based on family groupings.  They have survived impressively in the middle of a very dense municipal area.  They have been the source of tourist and commuter admiration from surrounding communities.

Cambridge and the DCR are deliberately starving the Charles River White Geese and have aggressively made the situation worse.  Detailed analyses are provided in documents for which links are provided in section 4.a. below.

A few years ago, the Massachusetts legislature attempted to destroy the Metropolitan District Commission which was responsible for the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge.

The legislature divided the MDC responsibilities among the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  The MassDOT transfer has been, for the most part a success.  The DCR transfer has been a failure.

The destructive situation in the MDC has simply changed names, as far as the DCR transfer has gone.

MassDOT has stood up to more than one outrage proposed by Cambridge and/or by the DCR, or by related “activists.”

The DCR created irresponsible plans for destruction of hundreds of excellent trees and animal habitat between the BU and Longfellow Bridges on the Cambridge side of the Charles River.  The DCR worked closely with the City of Cambridge which, in Spring 2015, destroyed its own Cambridge Common.

The DCR and Cambridge have sneaked through legislation authorizing all this destruction based on 2009 plans (bragged to be 19th Century plans) without any meaningful public communication.  This was on top of a funding vote in 2014 based on fraudulent actions, clearly by a fake group which has done environmental destruction for the DCR, possibly by the legislative liaison of the DCR.

The DCR is rather clearly slapping the face of the local cheerleaders controlled by the City of Cambridge who have been fighting for this destruction as a company union for years.

The DCR is conducting fake public input on irresponsible plans for the Magazine Beach playing fields, just west of the BU Bridge.  The massive logging proposed is east of the BU Bridge, running to the Longfellow Bridge.  The DCR is refusing any form of input in their “public meetings” on the massive loggings.

The DCR does not even allow the fraudulent public input they are allowing concerning the most irresponsible parts of the Magazine Beach proposal to be given meaningful respect.  It is no coincidence that the person representing the DCR has been part of the outrage from the beginning.  He repeatedly promised “no intent to harm” the Charles River White Geese as he was doing terrible things to them.

“Public input” is “allowed” by the DCR on everything except their irresponsible behavior.  Comments on their irresponsible behavior is ignored if not silenced.

The irresponsible behavior is not negotiable.

c. Reason for massive tree destruction changes again.

(1) General.

An additional game is that the DCR has routinely been varying its explanation for destruction of all those trees and animal habitat depending on the audience.  Boston residents who have been fighting for destruction may have taken a hike, so the pitch used to bring them in has disappeared, at least for the time being..

(2) A Culture of Outrageous Lies.

The standard pitch with many of the people we are dealing with is claim after claim after claim.  A reasonable person has to think that, with all the claims being propounded with such great certainty that one of them has to be true.  When the pitch persons know finds out which lie works, the pitch person has found out which lie / absurdity is the “truth”.  The “truth” in their world is the lie / piece of nonsense that gets swallowed.

Commonly, as is apparently the situation on the Charles River, the lies are tailored to the listener.  The explanation varies from listener to listener, and thus each recipient of lies gets his / her own “truth.”

These development mentalities even have a term for this pattern.  It is called “getting things done.”  And to many members of this culture, the person who best achieves this success is held in great esteem.  “Getting things done” to so many people is the only value.

(3) Won’t it look great in 40 years?

Depending on the audience, the story is back to the original one: Won’t it look great in 40 years?

In particular, these sick people have a holy grail they have not mentioned for awhile: plans for the Charles River from the 19th Century.

Since the folks who wrote those plans could not think of cherry trees, cherry trees are being massively destroyed, almost all of them.  The same would appear to apply to that magnificent willow, and a whole bunch of other excellent trees, including but not limited to Lindens, Mulberries, Sassafrass, and Zelkovas.

And the folks who wrote these plans were also very happy with dumping sewerage in the Charles River and in Boston harbor.  This reality is not mentioned in this explanation.

(4) We’re putting in saplings!!!!

Nice, but what does that have to do with trees that should not be destroyed in the first place?

And there are plenty of places which could use saplings.  One of them is east of the Hyatt Regency where Cambridge did the DCR’s dirty work for them in the name of sewer work.

(5) Supposedly diseased trees.

An ongoing lie is that they are destroying diseased trees or trees which are in the way of their gold plated highways.

They do not mention the fact that there are no diseased trees or next to no diseased trees.

The lie comes from the omission of the non existence or near non existence of diseased trees.

So they use “or” with next to nothing on one side of the “or”.

But a lot of cheerleaders love it.  They can claim to be on the side of sainthood, even if the alternative wording is just another blatant fraud.

Last I heard, however, the poor dears from the DCR will not even document their claims of disease, obviously because they cannot.  Even, as far as I can gather from the DCR’s Legislative Liaison, the DCR refuses to provide documentation after a request from the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  The DCR lookes determined to destroy the evidence as soon as possible by destroying excellent healthy trees.

And the Boston Globe swallowed the flat out lie in 2009 that all trees being destroyed are diseased.

(6) Norway Maples, shudder.

Listening to the legislative liaison emoting with belligerence that they are destroying Norway Maples, and totality ignoring the reality that there is no edict to destroy existing Norway Maples, I have even more sympathy for a good reporter from the Boston Globe who has done good work, but who swallowed the diseased lie.

The kind way to describe the legislative liaison's statement is that he lied through omission, not mentioning the scores of excellent cherries, that magnificent willow, the Lindens, the Mulberries, the Sassafrass, the Zelkovas, and the others.

But his strong statement was much more than lying through omission. "We are destroying Norway Maples." with the belligerence he used, clearly stated that that is all they are destroying.

The liaison then went into a communication that it was unthinkable to object to the DCR’s environmental outrage.

Here is a photo of an excellent Willow which the DCR is fighting to destroy under the lie that it is a, shudder, Norway Maple.



The Massachusetts Department of Transportation subsequently commented in response to a question at a public meeting that MassDOT is only interested in planting Norway Maples in the open space it is creating from rearrangement of that portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike (I90) south of the Charles River near the Magazine Beach area, but on the opposite side.

(7) Bike Highway.  Pedestrian highway.

This pitch is a current pitch to those who will swallow it.

When I have been standing on the existing bike highway and telling people, as the bikes go by, that hundreds of trees are being destroyed to create a bike highway, I get a look at the bikes going by, and a disgusted laugh.

Then I point out that the trees are also (including that Willow) being destroyed to create a walking path next to the river, the response get downright incredulous, especially since the existing pedestrian path is a lovely, hard trod dirt path, very well fit for the environment.

But the bureaucrats, and their contractors who get paid for the outrage, want gold plating.  Gold plating is good for their pocket books.  And contractors get paid to destroy and get paid to put in saplings to replace trees that should not have been destroyed in the first place.

This gold plate mentality was a reason why the state legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission and split its responsibilities on the Charles River between the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (bridges) and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (shore).

MassDOT has been commendable in its management of this portion of the Charles River.  MassDOT looks like the adult in the room when dealing with Cambridge and the DCR.

DCR got the managers from the MDC with the MDC vileness that the legislature was trying to destroy.

Interestingly, many people who have been fighting most for this destruction with this “explanation” turn out to include people who live on the Boston side of the Charles River.  These folks are fighting for maximum increase in open space on the Boston side in the Mass. Pike (I90) project.  These people lie that they are environmentalists.

Talking to pedestrians, and standing the middle of the existing bicycle highway, people concerned about the massive tree destruction seemed to think there always is a bike highway.

(8) Apparently clear fraud.

As near as I can figure out, the original lobbying effort in the legislature amounted to the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” showing a petition for underpasses under three bridges further out on the Charles.  It appears that they lied that the petition for underpasses supported this massive destruction, without, of course, mentioning the destruction.  The words obviously used fit the claim of the name that this entity is conserving the Charles River rather than fighting for its destruction.

Thus, the $20 million looks like it was obtained through outright fraud.

The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” openly supported this destruction about ten years ago when fraud was not the in thing.  The destruction has not changed.  They are still using that fake name as well, giving the Legislature the impression that they are the good guys.

Fraud is now the open tool.

And then you have another fake group fighting for destruction with the falsehood of being a neighborhood association “concerned” about the Charles River.

Then you have the DCR's "legislative liaison." It is silly to think that his nonsense was not given by him to the legislature / the governor's office.  But I do not know if he were around when the original approval was obtained.  If he were, that ramps up the fraud reality.

(9) Cambridge City Council.

The Cambridge “City Council” is belligerently environmentally destructive, with falsehoods claiming sainthood about far less important issues than massive tree destruction, and heartless animal abuse.  They voted in favor of the three underpasses which the falsely name group claims puts them in support of the massive logging.

With the Cambridge “City Council”, however you have the reality that silence in the face of circumstances which call for outrage is consent.

Outrage is consent.

d. Summation.

The DCR is unfit to manage the environment. These latest outrages should be immediately ended.

The DCR should be stripped of more of its responsibilities on the Charles River, in a further legislative attempt to end the outrage which was the Metropolitan District Commission. The responsibilities should be transferred to the Department of Transportation which took over the DCR’s responsibilities for the bridges across the Charles River. MassDOT is not perfect. The DCR approaches being perfect from the wrong direction.

MassDOT has shown its willingness and capability to stand up to the DCR and to its partner in destruction, the City of Cambridge.

Part of the transfer would be that portion of Boston's Soldiers Field Road from the BU Bridge to its end in Brighton, an area which MassDOT is currently planning in the Mass. Pike reorganization. Cambridge's Memorial Drive from the BU Bridge to the Longfellow Bridge should be transferred to protect it from the vileness of the DCR.

But then again, there is a lot of logic in giving MassDOT the Charles River from the Boston Harbor Dam to the next dam to the west, in Watertown.  There is still a lot to destroy that destroyers would love to pay their contractor friends to destroy.


2. Contact Information to prevent this outrage.

a. Officials.

Please object to the massive, irresponsible destruction imminent.

Governor Baker: 617-725-4005, 888-870-7770 (888 free in state)
Internet Email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituent-services/contact-governor-office/

These destructive people are people from the bureaucracy which reports to him, using money allocated by the opposing party.  It would be very much to the governor’s advantage to save the people of Massachusetts from the costs of this outrageous boondoggle, financially, politically, environmentally, and from protecting the animals of the Charles River from an acceleration of heartless animal abuse in which Cambridge and the bureaucrats are belligerently guilty.

Additionally, the City of Cambridge approaches being a one party state, and the party is the opposite party of that to which the governor belongs.

Cambridge City Council: 617-349-4280, council@cambridgema.gov

Letters can be sent c/o City Clerk, City of Cambridge, 795 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139.  They should include a cover letter asking that that the letter be made part of the communications to the Cambridge City Council at their next meeting.  Because of the timing, letters could be a waste of time.

Formal Email Communications to the Cambridge City Council can be done in a similar manner.  The City Clerk’s email address is dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  These become part of the formal record.  The above address is recorded but not part of the formal package.  The above address, however, is immediate, as opposed to the next Monday night when they have a meeting.  Because of the timing, formal emails could be a waste of time.

Legislators: 617-722-2000, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/201304/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html

Contact information as to individuals who might be of value for communications:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-can-we-do-to-help-on-charles-river.html.


b. Friends of the White Geese.

Volunteers are needed and encouraged.  Please contact us at 617-283-7649 or boblat@yahoo.com.

Financial help is needed and encouraged.  This blog has a donate button which links to PayPal.  PayPal confuses me.  I am pretty sure I have charged through American Express, and their materials show all credit cards, but they may somehow amount to a debit card type of arrangement, or perhaps they let you use the credit cards the first time. .

If you would rather use snail mail, please mail to Friends of the White Geese, PO Box 391412, Cambridge, MA 02139.  Checks would be necessary in snail mail.  Please provide your name and address.  I can imagine the pious nonsense which would come from these people with regard to anonymous contributions.

Whatever you can do would be of help.

3. Personnel Changes, DCR.

a. Commissioner.

Xavier Dietrich sent me an email asking if I had information concerning the resignation of Carol Sanchez.  I was not familiar with that name.  It turned out that she was the Commissioner (department head) of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Mr. Dietrich referred me to a news report, posted at http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/dcr_commissioner_carol_sanchez.html, which in turn is based on a report by the Boston Globe.  I checked out both reports although the Boston Globe report was obscured by a sales pitch.

These November 11, 2015 reports indicate that Ms. Sanchez tendered her written resignation on November 10, 2015.  The resignation was immediate and gave no particular reason.  The resignation was accepted by the governor by email.

The timing is of interest because, at about 2 pm on the afternoon of November 10, 2015, I hand delivered to the Governor’s Office my complaint about the outrage imminent on the Charles River, including detailed photographs on the many excellent trees being destroyed.  The letter had as an attachment my letter to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation committee working on the Mass. Pike rebuild in Allston, transmitting the history of the DCR on the Charles River.

Links to these letters are provided in section 4.a. below.

It would appear that the press was not notified until November 11.

Here is, again, a photograph of the magnificent willow which is slated for destruction as part of the Charles River outrage.

My letter to the governor featured a photo of this tree occupying half a page.



I know absolutely nothing other than this about the resignation.  As may be noted from the letters, the problems in the DCR are long standing and outrageous.

The basic theme of the MassDOT letter is that MassDOT should respect the sensitivities of the legislature in creating open space as part of the Mass. Pike project because the legislature attempted to kill the predecessor of the DCR, the Metropolitan District Commission, on the Charles because of the very terrible record of the predecessor.

The legislature divided the MDC’s responsibilities between MassDOT (bridges) and DCR (land).  MassDOT has done a commendable job in this part of the Charles.  The DCR has done a terrible job in this part of the Charles River.

I suggested that MassDOT get legislative approval in the form of submitting a bill transferring responsibility for the banks of the Charles to MassDOT on the Boston side from the BU Bridge to the end of the highway next to the Mass. Pike, Soldiers Field Road.  Soldiers Field Road is being moved in the MassDOT proposal partially under the Mass. Pike to make open space.

In my letter to the Governor, I suggested that he also initiate transfer of the north (Cambridge) banks of the Charles River to MassDOT from the Longfellow Bridge to the Western Avenue Bridge to reflect areas under the destructive attack of the DCR.

I know nothing about this resignation except for the timing, and I was unaware of the interesting overlap of activities until I followed up on the question raised to me.

b. Lead presenter, Magazine Beach con game.

Almost immediately after we became aware of the commencement of the destruction project on the Charles River by putting in place protections for trees not to be destroyed, the DCR conducted a public presentation on their allegedly glorious plans for Magazine Beach.

The area of destruction runs east from the BU Bridge.  The Magazine Beach area runs west from the BU Bridge.

The bureaucrat who has been the face of the DCR outrage from the beginning was supposedly the lead presenter.  In reality, he was in the background to a totally different person.

The following Sunday, I leafleted a fundraiser supposedly for the less irresponsible parts of the Magazine Beach project with fliers announcing the imminent massive destruction which is going forward without public input.

This has been a years long company union con game.  The local fake neighborhood association loudly gives the impression that it is defending the Charles and equally loudly shouts down discussion of all irresponsible initiatives of the DCR and the City of Cambridge.

In their pitch, meaningfully defending the Charles River from governmental outrages has been treated as politically incorrect.  A comparable tactic was used by a similar group fighting for destruction at Alewife while claiming to be defending it.

I repeatedly and loudly informed possible donors at the fundraiser, with the flier “This is what you are fighting for.”

The lead speaker at the DCR presentation was the guest of honor at the fundraiser.

In the middle of the event, he walked out of the building and drove to the east, toward the destruction area.  He returned later.

This person was not present at the second DCR presentation, at which mention of the destruction proceeding with maximum secrecy was shouted down by the bureaucrat who has been at the middle of the outrages from the beginning.  The lead presenter in the second meeting was the bureaucrat with filthy hands.

In these meetings, everything is negotiable EXCEPT FOR THE IRRESPONSIBLE PARTS.

4. Past Reports in THIS series, and key communications to government agencies.

a. Communications to Public Agencies — Cambridge City Council, destruction plans; MassDOT proposing sanctions; DCR adding to the sanctions.

(1). DCR Destruction Plans as provided to Cambridge City Council by me on April 1, 2014, full publication of plans in post: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html
(2). Detailed analysis to MassDOT suggesting, at minimum that they get legislative approval to allow DCR to manage open space being created in the Mass. Pike (I90) reconstruction on the south side of the Charles, ideally to ban DCR from the project area: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-r-to-massdot-bar-dcr-from-mass.html.
(3). Communication to DCR objecting to the fraud of seeking “approvals” for the irresponsible, but much less irresponsible project at Magazine Beach while going forward with this outrage in secret, October 13, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-formal-objection-to-dcr.html.
(4). Charles River: Thought Control and the City of Cambridge, MA, USA, November 5, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-thought-control-and-city.html.

This is a strikingly short summary of fake groups in the City of Cambridge and their use to lie to the population that Cambridge and its accomplices are responsible entities while fighting, fighting, fighting for destruction.  With me on the responsible side.  I have had a lot of very major victories.  The victories are timed as my time allows, and as I see an opening.

b. Past Reports in this series.

(1). Report 1.  Charles River:  Massive Tree Destruction Appears Imminent on Memorial Drive, October 4, 2015.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-massive-tree-destruction.html.
(2). Report 2.  Memorial Drive Plans and Photos, October 5, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-memorial-drive-logging.html
(3). Report 3. Charles River: CURRENT Memorial Drive Construction Zone, October 6, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-photos-current-memorial.html
(4). Report 4. Charles River: Photos, CURRENT Memorial Drive Construction Zone and Major Likely Victims, October 8, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-photos-current-memorial.html
(5). Report 5.  Flash: DCR Going Ahead with Massive Destruction on Memorial Drive, October 22, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-flash-dcr-going-ahead.html
(6). Report 6. Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - first group of photos October 23, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary.html
(7). Report 7.  Logging preliminary photos - second group of photos, October 23, 2015   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_23.html
(8). Report 8.  Logging preliminary photos - third group of photos, October 24, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_24.html.
(9). Report 9.  Logging preliminary photos - fourth group of photos, October 25, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/re-charles-river-logging-preliminary.html
(10). Report 10.  Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - fourth group of photos - the doomed cherry orchard, October 26, 2015:   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_26.html
(11). Report 11.  Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - sixth group of photos - the doomed cherry orchard, October 28, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_28.html.
(12). Report 12, Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - seventh group of photos, update on the ground, November 2, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-preliminary.html.
(13). Report 13, Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - eighth photos condemned cherry strand revisited, update on the ground, November 6, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-preliminary_7.html
(14) Charles River: Logging photos - ninth photos first destruction likely east of BU Cambridge Boathouse, November 15, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-photos-ninth.html
(15) Charles River: Logging photos - 10th photos: Doomed Cherry Grove, doomed magnificent Willow, November 8, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-photos-10th.html
(16) Charles River Logging: More Fraud on the Governor/legislature?  November 24, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-more-fraud-on.html
(17) Charles River: Logging photos - 11th photos: Destruction of habitat, increased starvation attack on Charles River White Geese, November 27, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-photos-11th.html
(18) Charles River: Logging photos - 12th photos: Destruction of habitat, increased starvation attack on Charles River White Geese, completion of 11th photos:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/charles-river-logging-photos-12-th.html
(19) Charles River: Logging photos - 13th photos: Doomed trees just west of Mass. Ave. Bridge.:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/charles-river-logging-photos-13th.html

Friday, December 18, 2015

Charles River: A plea for responsible behavior.

Charles River: A plea for responsible behavior.

Visiting professor Robin Pope addressed the following communication to me and to the local state representative.

Her email followed on a series of emails, in particular from one of mine.  It repeated copies to individuals from the prior emails.

The only change is my French based fussiness on including “La” in my name, and a couple of typos.

On general principals, as part of this introduction, I am enclosing a photo of the outrageously doomed Willow.



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Dear Robert J La Trémouille and Representative Livingstone

thank you for this work Robert J La Trémouille and your role in the chance Cambridge has to be a steward to nature in the form of the white geese, with every runner stopping to photo their goslings in the season, and the pastoral scene of canadian geese under giant oaks just east of the Hyatt Regency on the north side of Memorial Drive. In my research sojourn at the Hyatt, these geese have added immeasurably to my pleasure and sense that Cambridge has some playing their role of caring for nature, instead of smothering it in concrete and bitumen for cars where you national Institute of Medicine finds the automobile likely behind the USA having double the rate of deaths of other advanced countries in every death category. The roar of traffic on both sides of the Charles is a blight on this potentially beautiful area of recreation.

The willow with its graceful bends is the only item right on the bank that a Chinese artist would place in a painting. The water's edge is otherwise boringly stiff sanitized, bar the rather graceful, also marked for execution Mulberry tree whose fruits are eaten by the ducklings, gosslings and people. The cherry grove east only a little back from the basin, fruits eaten by people, and the cherry line west of that willow, are the only other trees old enough to have acquired graceful bending lines.

I remain shocked, cleft in the heart, that these and other trees, zelkova, lindens, sassafrass, lending biodiversity and pleasure to the eye, all bear execution orange marks on both sides of Memorial Drive. yhe area is a disgrace, prime real estate for beauty with little beyond a boring wall of amorpha fructosa preventing people and animals from being at the water's edge, and limiting severely the wildflowers that otherwise would be in great abundance along that strip.

I find it beyond belief in a so-called advanced country that when I asked workers what they were doing, they said that they are working for the DCR preparing to chop down dead trees, replacing each with 2 saplings. I explained to these workers that the trees marked with orange for execution had leaves on them and that trees with leaves are alive.

I request that all DCR involved in such activities be suspended until they have passed a course on when a tree is alive, know the names and ages of all the trees, and passed a test on the number of leaves lost in chopping down each tree compared to the puny number of leaves on a sapling that will not look gracious for over 50 years moreover as regards beauty. The addition to global warming for some trees threatened with execution may be considerable as the bigger ones may have up to 500,000 leaves each!

We need some dead trees also - none in sight - and why there are no woodpeckers and other animals that require old wood.

I request transparency: a board stating the fund out of which the water pipe work is coming: it would be embezzlement if from the DCR since this is a mix of assisting traffic and the city of Cambridge, not assisting recreation and conservation.

Any genuine DCR work requires a plan placed several times along memorial drive with details on what and why with ample opportunity for the informed to comment. The paltry number of trees must be preserved, bushes added for beauty and animal life, the monotonous boring amorpha fructosa drastically reduced plus the unsightly boring olive'young willow wall removed west of the Massachusetts water works at the start of the Magazine beach. That ought to be a landscape and beauty delight, with a coffee shop in the former gun powder building, alongside public toilets, and an adequate number of benches. How can cambridge get its too immobile population walking without such basic facilities? Needed also are weekly talks on Cambridge history and the nature here. Every school child and adult ought have the opportunity to learn and treasure what you have in a manner yielding them fellowship and a community, as also aiding tourists

Wishing you success in bringing health and beauty to the people of Massachusetts through nature now here preserved and extended

greetings for the season

cordially

robin pope

Dr Robin Pope
Guest Professor
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Charles River, Flash Report: Norway Maples, DCR, and decent human beings

Charles River, Flash Report: Norway Maples, DCR, and decent human beings



Last night, December 15, 2015, the Mass. Department of Transportation conducted its second residents briefing of the month concerning the Mass. Pike (I90) rebuild project.

The first one was a week earlier.  I have been preparing a very detailed report.  I have put a lot of work into it, but still have more to do.

There, however, was one point made by MassDOT last night that really stood out.

They were talking about tree plantings which they envision as part of open space they are creating as part of the Mass. Pike project.

They mentioned only one variety and emphasized that one variety.

Norway Maples.

I, most definitely, am not a tree expert, but it is extremely common to hear strong statements on environmental matters from Cambridge or the DCR, and then to hear exactly the opposite from normal human beings.  On matters which I do understand, the normal human beings have ALWAYS been the correct parties.

The DCR varies in its reasons for the imminent massive destruction on Memorial Drive between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge.  They vary the explanation, it would appear, with what the listener is likely to swallow.

“We are destroying Norway Maples” was the strong statement / excuse made by the DCR’s legislative liaison.

I have torn that bizarre position to pieces, along with other outrageous excuses in section 1 of my report yesterday, posted at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/charles-river-logging-photos-13th.html.

Included in section 4 of that report is a link to my VERY DETAILED 19 page letter to MassDOT as to why MassDOT should give the legislature the courtesy of input as to whether the Mass. Pike project should increase the responsibilities of the DCR by allocating the new open space to the tender mercies of the DCR.

There is also a link in section 4 to my letter to the Governor going further on the issue of the DCR’s lack of fitness to perform its assigned duties on the Charles.

But I have a great deal of respect for MassDOT.

And I will eventually get out my detailed report on the Mass. Pike project in light of these two meetings.

In any case, for multiple reasons, DCR should be stripped of a lot if not all of its powers on the lower Charles River in favor of MassDOT.

This latest input from MassDOT elaborates on the situation.

The DCR is a belligerent, mindless destroyer of the environment.  This time, it is supposedly Norway Maples.  The DCR will destroy trees because they are Norway Maples whether the trees, in reality, are Norway Maples or not.

MassDOT clearly and strongly wants to plant Norway Maples in the open space it is creating in the Mass. Pike project in the Allston neighborhood of Boston.  Without a change, it will be the destructive DCR that is responsible for the open space that is being created.

Definite conflict.

PS:  Leading this post is a photo of a magnificent Willow which is one of the many non Norway Maple trees the DCR is determined to destroy because, according to the DCR’s legislative liaison, these non Norway Maples are Norway Maples.

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Charles River: Logging photos - 13th photos: Doomed trees just west of Mass. Ave. Bridge.

Charles River: Logging photos - 13th photos: Doomed trees just west of Mass. Ave. Bridge.

1. Reports from the Charles, east of the Destroyed Nesting Area - Continuation of November 15 photos.
a. Summary.
(1) This report.
(2) General.
b. Introductory.
c. Reason for massive tree destruction changes again.
(1) General.
(2) A Culture of Outrageous Lies.
(3) Won’t it look great in 40 years?
(4) Supposedly diseased trees.
(5) Norway Maples, shudder.
(6) Bike Highway.  Pedestrian highway.
(7) Apparently clear fraud.
(8) Cambridge City Council.
d. Summation.
2. Contact Information to prevent this outrage.
a. Officials.
b. Friends of the White Geese.
3. Photos and plans, area just west of the Mass. Ave. Bridge, plans, Mass. Ave. Bridge to Longfellow Bridge.
a. General.
b. Destruction plan for the area just west of Mass. Ave. Bridge.
c. Photos of area just west of the Mass. Ave, December 13, 2015.
d. Destruction plans, Mass. Ave. Bridge to Longfellow Bridge.
4. Past Reports in THIS series, and key communications to government agencies.
a. Communications to Public Agencies — Cambridge City Council, destruction plans; MassDOT proposing sanctions; DCR adding to the sanctions.
b. Past Reports in this series.




1. Reports from the Charles, first block west of the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

a. Summary.

(1) This report.

This report up dates the reports by showing pending destruction between the construction trailers and the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

Destruction is still authorized and massive between the Mass. Ave. Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge, and is still authorized and massive between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse.  These area are not marked as imminent YET.  It would be total folly to assume responsible behavior in these areas will combine with outrages in the area between the BU Boathouse and the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

We are dealing with people who are unfit for the duties for which they are responsible.

We are dealing with people who were on the receiving end of severe punishment by the Massachusetts Legislature for their past outrages under the name Metropolitan District Commission.  It is my hope and very strong opinion that the Massachusetts Governor and Legislature should strip these incompetent, destructive people of as much power on the Charles River as can be accomplished.

The legislature tried to clean up the outrage which was the Metropolitan District Commssion by destroying it and dividing up its responsibilities between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Part of the rearrangement has been brilliantly successful in that part of the Charles River with which this blog is concerned.  MassDOT has been standing up to outrages from the irresponsible DCR and City of Cambridge.  They have been the adult in the room in the midst of two very destructive entities.

The DCR has proven its environmental and disposition wise lack of fitness, as has the City of Cambridge.

The legislature and governor been shown major failures in the destruction of the MDC.  The legislature and governor should transfer more areas of the Charles River to a proven responsible entity in this part of the Charles, MassDOT.

(2) General.

This blog has been viewed by more than 100,000 times from nearly a hundred different countries.

To make certain that new readers know the latest about this imminent outrage, I am standardizing information in this subsection and to the end of Section 2.  Standardization is subject to regular edits to communicate particular points better.

Section 1.a.(2) is new as a general introduction. Section 3 is new and is the purpose of the report.  Section 4 is updated each time to reflect the most recent entries.  Section 2 is pretty firm, but contact information is updated as appropriate.

I have been delinquent in these reports in that there is one section for which I have not presented photos.

What happened is that this section was made ready for destruction after the information presented earlier.  Regrettably, the delay winds up with tree photos out of season.

b. Introductory.

Friends of the White Geese is a Massachusetts Non Profit Organization devoted to defending the Charles River from environmental, mostly governmental, depredations.  The most destructive entities are the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (formerly the Metropolitan District Commission) and the City of Cambridge, MA.  We have been registered with the Massachusetts Attorney General since 2002.

The Charles River White Geese are a valuable and loved gaggle of White Geese who have lived on the banks of the Charles River since 1981 in a mile long habitat centered on the BU Bridge.  They are a mix primarily of White China and Emden Geese.  The gaggle includes a number of members (and one Patriarch) of Toulouse Goose descent.

The Charles River White Geese have a clear governmental structure based on family groupings.  They have survived impressively in the middle of a very dense municipal area.  They have been the source of tourist and commuter admiration from surrounding communities.

Cambridge and the DCR are deliberately starving the Charles River White Geese and have aggressively made the situation worse.  Detailed analyses are provided in documents for which links are provided in section 4.a. below.

A few years ago, the Massachusetts legislature attempted to destroy the Metropolitan District Commission which was responsible for the Charles River between Boston and Cambridge.

The legislature divided the MDC responsibilities among the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.  The MassDOT transfer has been, for the most part a success.  The DCR transfer has been a failure.

The destructive situation in the MDC has simply changed names, as far as the DCR transfer has gone.

MassDOT has stood up to more than one outrage proposed by Cambridge and/or by the DCR, or by related “activists.”

The DCR created irresponsible plans for destruction of hundreds of excellent trees and animal habitat between the BU and Longfellow Bridges on the Cambridge side of the Charles River.  The DCR worked closely with the City of Cambridge which, in Spring 2015, destroyed its own Cambridge Common.

The DCR and Cambridge have sneaked through legislation authorizing all this destruction based on 2009 plans (bragged to be 19th Century plans) without any meaningful public communication.  This was on top of a funding vote in 2014 based on fraudulent actions, clearly by a fake group which has done environmental destruction for the DCR, possibly by the legislative liaison of the DCR.

The DCR is rather clearly slapping the face of the local cheerleaders controlled by the City of Cambridge who have been fighting for this destruction as a company union for years.

The DCR is conducting fake public input on irresponsible plans for the Magazine Beach playing fields, just west of the BU Bridge.  The massive logging proposed is east of the BU Bridge, running to the Longfellow Bridge.  The DCR is refusing any form of input in their “public meetings” on the massive loggings.

The DCR does not even allow the fraudulent public input they are allowing concerning the most irresponsible parts of the Magazine Beach proposal to be given meaningful respect.  It is no coincidence that the person representing the DCR has been part of the outrage from the beginning.  He repeatedly promised “no intent to harm” the Charles River White Geese as he was doing terrible things to them.

“Public input” is “allowed” by the DCR on everything except their irresponsible behavior.  Comments on their irresponsible behavior is ignored if not silenced.

The irresponsible behavior is not negotiable.

c. Reason for massive tree destruction changes again.

(1) General.

An additional game is that the DCR has routinely been varying its explanation for destruction of all those trees and animal habitat depending on the audience.  Boston residents who have been fighting for destruction may have taken a hike, so the pitch used to bring them in has disappeared, at least for the time being..

(2) A Culture of Outrageous Lies.

The standard pitch with many of the people we are dealing with is claim after claim after claim.  A reasonable person has to think that, with all the claims being propounded with such great certainty that one of them has to be true.  When the pitch persons know finds out which lie works, the pitch person has found out which lie / absurdity is the “truth”.  The “truth” in their world is the lie / piece of nonsense that gets swallowed.

Commonly, as is apparently the situation on the Charles River, the lies are tailored to the listener.  The explanation varies from listener to listener, and thus each recipient of lies gets his / her own “truth.”

These development mentalities even have a term for this pattern.  It is called “getting things done.”  And to many members of this culture, the person who best achieves this success is held in great esteem.  “Getting things done” to so many people is the only value.

(3) Won’t it look great in 40 years?

Depending on the audience, the story is back to the original one: Won’t it look great in 40 years?

In particular, these sick people have a holy grail they have not mentioned for awhile: plans for the Charles River from the 19th Century.

Since the folks who wrote those plans could not think of cherry trees, cherry trees are being massively destroyed, almost all of them.  The same would appear to apply to that magnificent willow, and a whole bunch of other excellent trees, including but not limited to Lindens, Mulberries, Sassafrass, and Zelkovas.

And the folks who wrote these plans were also very happy with dumping sewerage in the Charles River and in Boston harbor.  This reality is not mentioned in this explanation.

(4) Supposedly diseased trees.

An ongoing lie is that they are destroying diseased trees or trees which are in the way of their gold plated highways.

They do not mention the fact that there are no diseased trees or next to no diseased trees.

The lie comes from the omission of the non existence or near non existence of diseased trees.

So they use “or” with next to nothing on one side of the “or”.

But a lot of cheerleaders love it.  They can claim to be on the side of sainthood, even if the alternative wording is just another blatant fraud.

Last I heard, however, the poor dears from the DCR will not even document their claims of disease, obviously because they cannot.  Even, as far as I can gather from the DCR’s Legislative Liaison, the DCR refuses to provide documentation after a request from the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  The DCR lookes determined to destroy the evidence as soon as possible by destroying excellent healthy trees.

And the Boston Globe swallowed the flat out lie in 2009 that all trees being destroyed are diseased.

(5) Norway Maples, shudder.

Listening to the legislative liaison emoting with belligerence that they are destroying Norway Maples, and totality ignoring the reality that there is no edict to destroy existing Norway Maples, I have even more sympathy for a good reporter from the Boston Globe who has done good work, but who swallowed the diseased lie.

The kind way to describe the legislative liaison's statement is that he lied through omission, not mentioning the scores of excellent cherries, that magnificent willow, the Lindens, the Mulberries, the Sassafrass, the Zelkovas, and the others.

But his strong statement was much more than lying through omission. "We are destroying Norway Maples." with the belligerence he used, clearly stated that that is all they are destroying.

The liaison then went into a communication that it was unthinkable to object to the DCR’s environmental outrage.

Here is a photo of an excellent Willow which the DCR is fighting to destroy under the lie that it is a, shudder, Norway Maple.



(6) Bike Highway.  Pedestrian highway.

This pitch is a current pitch to those who will swallow it.

When I have been standing on the existing bike highway and telling people, as the bikes go by, that hundreds of trees are being destroyed to create a bike highway, I get a look at the bikes going by, and a disgusted laugh.

Then I point out that the trees are also (including that Willow) being destroyed to create a walking path next to the river, the response get downright incredulous, especially since the existing pedestrian path is a lovely, hard trod dirt path, very well fit for the environment.

But the bureaucrats, and their contractors who get paid for the outrage, want gold plating.  Gold plating is good for their pocket books.  And contractors get paid to destroy and get paid to put in saplings to replace trees that should not have been destroyed in the first place.

This gold plate mentality was a reason why the state legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission and split its responsibilities on the Charles River between the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (bridges) and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (shore).

MassDOT has been commendable in its management of this portion of the Charles River.  MassDOT looks like the adult in the room when dealing with Cambridge and the DCR.

DCR got the managers from the MDC with the MDC vileness that the legislature was trying to destroy.

Interestingly, many people who have been fighting most for this destruction with this “explanation” turn out to include people who live on the Boston side of the Charles River.  These folks are fighting for maximum increase in open space on the Boston side in the Mass. Pike (I90) project.  These people lie that they are environmentalists.

(7) Apparently clear fraud.

As near as I can figure out, the original lobbying effort in the legislature amounted to the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” showing a petition for underpasses under three bridges further out on the Charles.  It appears that they lied that the petition for underpasses supported this massive destruction, without, of course, mentioning the destruction.  The words obviously used fit the claim of the name that this entity is conserving the Charles River rather than fighting for its destruction.

Thus, the $20 million looks like it was obtained through outright fraud.

The falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” openly supported this destruction about ten years ago when fraud was not the in thing.  The destruction has not changed.  They are still using that fake name as well, giving the Legislature the impression that they are the good guys.

Fraud is now the open tool.

And then you have another fake group fighting for destruction with the falsehood of being a neighborhood association “concerned” about the Charles River.

Then you have the DCR's "legislative liaison." It is silly to think that his nonsense was not given by him to the legislature / the governor's office.  But I do not know if he were around when the original approval was obtained.  If he were, that ramps up the fraud reality.

(8) Cambridge City Council.

The Cambridge “City Council” is belligerently environmentally destructive, with falsehoods claiming sainthood about far less important issues than massive tree destruction, and heartless animal abuse.  They voted in favor of the three underpasses which the falsely name group claims puts them in support of the massive logging.

With the Cambridge “City Council”, however you have the reality that silence in the face of circumstances which call for outrage is consent.

Outrage is consent.

d. Summation.

The DCR is unfit to manage the environment. These latest outrages should be immediately ended.

The DCR should be stripped of more of its responsibilities on the Charles River, in a further legislative attempt to end the outrage which was the Metropolitan District Commission. The responsibilities should be transferred to the Department of Transportation which took over the DCR’s responsibilities for the bridges across the Charles River. MassDOT is not perfect. The DCR approaches being perfect from the wrong direction.

MassDOT has shown its willingness and capability to stand up to the DCR and to its partner in destruction, the City of Cambridge.

Part of the transfer would be that portion of Boston's Soldiers Field Road from the BU Bridge to its end in Brighton, an area which MassDOT is currently planning in the Mass. Pike reorganization. Cambridge's Memorial Drive from the BU Bridge to the Longfellow Bridge should be transferred to protect it from the vileness of the DCR.

But then again, there is a lot of logic in giving the DCR the Charles River from the Boston Harbor Dam to the next dam to the west, in Watertown.  There is still a lot to destroy that destroyers would love to pay their contractor friends to destroy.


2. Contact Information to prevent this outrage.

a. Officials.

Please object to the massive, irresponsible destruction imminent.

Governor Baker: 617-725-4005, 888-870-7770 (888 free in state)
Internet Email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituent-services/contact-governor-office/

These destructive people are people from the bureaucracy which reports to him, using money allocated by the opposing party.  It would be very much to the governor’s advantage to save the people of Massachusetts from the costs of this outrageous boondoggle, financially, politically, environmentally, and from protecting the animals of the Charles River from an acceleration of heartless animal abuse in which Cambridge and the bureaucrats are belligerently guilty.

Additionally, the City of Cambridge approaches being a one party state, and the party is the opposite party of that to which the governor belongs.

Cambridge City Council: 617-349-4280, council@cambridgema.gov

Letters can be sent c/o City Clerk, City of Cambridge, 795 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139.  They should include a cover letter asking that that the letter be made part of the communications to the Cambridge City Council at their next meeting.  Because of the timing, letters could be a waste of time.

Formal Email Communications to the Cambridge City Council can be done in a similar manner.  The City Clerk’s email address is dlopez@cambridgema.gov.  These become part of the formal record.  The above address is recorded but not part of the formal package.  The above address, however, is immediate, as opposed to the next Monday night when they have a meeting.  Because of the timing, formal emails could be a waste of time.

Legislators: 617-722-2000, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/201304/emails-for-all-massachusetts.html

Contact information as to individuals who might be of value for communications:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-can-we-do-to-help-on-charles-river.html.


b. Friends of the White Geese.

Volunteers are needed and encouraged.  Please contact us at 617-283-7649 or boblat@yahoo.com.

Financial help is needed and encouraged.  This blog has a donate button which links to PayPal.  PayPal confuses me.  I am pretty sure I have charged through American Express, and their materials show all credit cards, but they may somehow amount to a debit card type of arrangement, or perhaps they let you use the credit cards the first time. .

If you would rather use snail mail, please mail to Friends of the White Geese, PO Box 391412, Cambridge, MA 02139.  Checks would be necessary in snail mail.  Please provide your name and address.  I can imagine the pious nonsense which would come from these people with regard to anonymous contributions.

Whatever you can do would be of help.


3. Photos and plans, area just west of the Mass. Ave. Bridge, plans, Mass. Ave. Bridge to Longfellow Bridge.

a. General.

The Mass. Ave. Bridge (also known as the Harvard Bridge) is the first bridge east of the BU Bridge, and the Longfellow Bridge is the second

These photos are photos I took on December 13, 2015.

The plans are the plans which apparently have been blessed by an act sneaked past the legislature.  It is not the fault of decent people.  It is apparently the fault of the DCR legislative liaison (see quote in section 1), and of the legislators supposedly representing the City of Cambridge, MA..

My understanding is that the Cambridge Conservation Commission has requested updated plans.  The DCR legislative liaison has informed me that they will get NOTHING MORE than what they have.

Complete destruction plans are available at the URL linked in section 4.a.(1).  Since the legislature has apparently made these 2009 plans the official plans for 2015, that puts post 2009 vegetation probably condemned, and a lot of this has already been ruthlessly destroyed.

b. Destruction plans for the area just west of Mass. Ave. Bridge.

The darkened circles are doomed trees.  The street running through the second plan is the ground portion of the Mass. Ave. Bridge (aka Harvard Bridge).

Double clicking will open up the graphics to very good reproductions.





c. Photos of area just west of the Mass. Ave, December 13, 2015.

Obviously, these are off season shots.

Sorry about the first and then third photos of three and then one tree.  It is very hard to see these out of season trees in front of the building.











The Mass. Ave. (Harvard) Bridge is to the right in the last two pictures.

d. Destruction plans, Mass. Ave. Bridge to Longfellow Bridge.

Note the destruction of an entire line of riverfront trees in the first plan and that of a magnificent grove in the second plan.





The destruction of the sequence of trees, first left of the turnaround, and then carrying between the two plans is also outrageous.




My guess as to the reason the trees in these plans are not marked as imminent is that the Longfellow Bridge is to the right (east) of the last plan, and it is currently under very major rebuilding work.  Construction crews for this destruction in addition to the Longfellow Bridge work is likely considered too much AT THIS TIME.

The same applies to the area on both sides of the Grand Junction railroad.  That area is politically sensitive, and includes on major lie to the east of the railroad.  Likely considered too much AT THIS TIME.


4. Past Reports in THIS series, and key communications to government agencies.

a. Communications to Public Agencies — Cambridge City Council, destruction plans; MassDOT proposing sanctions; DCR adding to the sanctions.

(1). DCR Destruction Plans as provided to Cambridge City Council by me on April 1, 2014, full publication of plans in post: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/tree-destruction-plans-charles-river.html
(2). Detailed analysis to MassDOT suggesting, at minimum that they get legislative approval to allow DCR to manage open space being created in the Mass. Pike (I90) reconstruction on the south side of the Charles, ideally to ban DCR from the project area: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-r-to-massdot-bar-dcr-from-mass.html.
(3). Communication to DCR objecting to the fraud of seeking “approvals” for the irresponsible, but much less irresponsible project at Magazine Beach while going forward with this outrage in secret, October 13, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-formal-objection-to-dcr.html.
(4). Charles River: Thought Control and the City of Cambridge, MA, USA, November 5, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-thought-control-and-city.html.

This is a strikingly short summary of fake groups in the City of Cambridge and their use to lie to the population that Cambridge and its accomplices are responsible entities while fighting, fighting, fighting for destruction.  With me on the responsible side.  I have had a lot of very major victories.  The victories are timed as my time allows, and as I see an opening.

b. Past Reports in this series.

(1). Report 1.  Charles River:  Massive Tree Destruction Appears Imminent on Memorial Drive, October 4, 2015.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-massive-tree-destruction.html.
(2). Report 2.  Memorial Drive Plans and Photos, October 5, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-memorial-drive-logging.html
(3). Report 3. Charles River: CURRENT Memorial Drive Construction Zone, October 6, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-photos-current-memorial.html
(4). Report 4. Charles River: Photos, CURRENT Memorial Drive Construction Zone and Major Likely Victims, October 8, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-photos-current-memorial.html
(5). Report 5.  Flash: DCR Going Ahead with Massive Destruction on Memorial Drive, October 22, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-flash-dcr-going-ahead.html
(6). Report 6. Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - first group of photos October 23, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary.html
(7). Report 7.  Logging preliminary photos - second group of photos, October 23, 2015   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_23.html
(8). Report 8.  Logging preliminary photos - third group of photos, October 24, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_24.html.
(9). Report 9.  Logging preliminary photos - fourth group of photos, October 25, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/re-charles-river-logging-preliminary.html
(10). Report 10.  Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - fourth group of photos - the doomed cherry orchard, October 26, 2015:   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_26.html
(11). Report 11.  Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - sixth group of photos - the doomed cherry orchard, October 28, 2015: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/charles-river-logging-preliminary_28.html.
(12). Report 12, Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - seventh group of photos, update on the ground, November 2, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-preliminary.html.
(13). Report 13, Charles River: Logging preliminary photos - eighth photos condemned cherry strand revisited, update on the ground, November 6, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-preliminary_7.html
(14) Charles River: Logging photos - ninth photos first destruction likely east of BU Cambridge Boathouse, November 15, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-photos-ninth.html
(15) Charles River: Logging photos - 10th photos: Doomed Cherry Grove, doomed magnificent Willow, November 8, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-photos-10th.html
(16) Charles River Logging: More Fraud on the Governor/legislature?  November 24, 2015:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-more-fraud-on.html
(17) Charles River: Logging photos - 11th photos: Destruction of habitat, increased starvation attack on Charles River White Geese, November 27, 2015, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/charles-river-logging-photos-11th.html
(18) Charles River: Logging photos - 12th photos: Destruction of habitat, increased starvation attack on Charles River White Geese, completion of 11th photos:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/charles-river-logging-photos-12-th.html