Charles River: Logging photos - 10th photos: Doomed Cherry Grove, doomed magnificent Willow
0. Technical apology.
a. Introductory.
b. Photos of the doomed Cherry Grove.
c. Reason changes again.
d. Apparently clear fraud.
2. Contact Information to prevent this outrage.
a. Officials.
b. Friends of the White Geese.
3. Photo comparison, the doomed Cherry Grove.
a. Destruction plans.
c. Photos from October 23, 2015.
d. Photos from November 15, 2015.
4. The magnificent and doomed willow.
5. 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. Summary.
a. Introductory.
A few years ago, the Massachusetts legislature attempted to destroy the entity which created the irresponsible plans for destruction of hundreds of excellent trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges on the Cambridge side of the Charles River.
Part of the destruction of the irresponsible entity worked.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has taken over the bridges over the Charles River and they have stood up to the destructive City of Cambridge and to the rump entity whose name was changed from the Metropolitan District Commission to the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
The key rotters from the prior entity moved to the DCR and now are calling the shots for the rest of the Charles River without missing a beat.
They even have sneaked through legislation authorizing destruction based on 2009 plans (bragged to be 19th Century plans) without any meaningful public communication.
In fact, 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.
They do not even allow the fraudulent public input they are allowing concerning the most irresponsible parts of the Magazine Beach proposal. It is no coincidence that the person representing the DCR has been part of this outrage from the beginning.
The same policy applies in both situations: "public input" on everything except the irresponsible behavior.
The irresponsible behavior is not negotiable.
a. Photos of the doomed Cherry Grove.
In section 3, I am doing photos of the doomed Cherry Grove at the Memorial Drive split.
They are doomed because folks in the 19th Century did not think of Cherry Trees then. That gives a rotten organization the right to destroy and destroy and destroy.
There is also a magnificent willow they are destroying, and other excellent trees like the one looming over the ghetto to which the Charles River White Geese have been consigned without food.
The willow is in Section 4. As for the others, I have reached my limit for graphics, according to the blog computer.
At the "public meeting" last night, the DCR’s legislative liaison gave yet another "reason" for the logging. He claims the trees he is fighting to destroy are not allowed to be planted. They are not allowed to be planted, so he claims that justifies fully grown adult, and magnificent, trees?
It get worse because he will only discuss the trees for which saplings are prohibited. The fraud is that he falsely communicates that that is all he is destroying. But the cherry trees being destroyed approach if not exceed the 150 trees the DCR claims it is destroying. If you go beyond that fraud, the real number is 250 or more, but the lies gives better sounding percentages.
In any case, the new photos are in sections 3 and 4.
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 that 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 excellent trees.
Another ongoing lie, as well, 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 the 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 and are 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.
As near as I can figure out, the 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.
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.
The DCR is unfit to manage the environment. This outrage should be ended, and the DCR stripped of more of its responsibilities on the Charles River. 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.
a. Officials.
Please object to the massive, irresponsible destruction imminent.
Internet Email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituent-services/contact-governor-office/
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.
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.
Whatever you can do would be of help.
3. Photo comparison, the doomed Cherry Grove.
Here are the corresponding plans for destruction. The blackened circles are excellent trees being destroyed.
Please remember. Double clicking greatly increases the quality of the shot.
There is value in the off season shot because the lack of leaves communicates just how dense the grove is, for the time being..
d. Photos from November 15, 2015.
4. The magnificent and doomed willow.
5. Past Reports in THIS series, and key communications to government agencies.
c. Photos from October 23, 2015.
d. Photos from November 15, 2015.
4. The magnificent and doomed willow.
5. 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.
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
