Charles River, Visit to the Charles River White Geese, Destruction Report.
1.
Visit to the Charles River White Geese.
2.
Recent important publications.
3.
The Destroyed Nesting Area.
A.
General.
B.
Entrance at the BU Bridge and the Memorial Drive On Ramp.
C.
Hill top to the south of the entrance.
D.
Dead zone next to the BU Bridge.
E.
Middle, area needlessly destroyed in the BU Bridge work.
F.
Next to the on ramp to Memorial Drive.
G.
Border zone.
H.
Riverfront.
I.
Woods next to the Tracks.
4.
Summary.
1.
Visit to the Charles River White Geese.
The three / four day Memorial Day weekend started off with two beautiful days on Friday and Saturday.
On Friday, I visited the Charles River White Geese and took photos. Ever since, I have been trying to figure out what to do with the photos.
On Friday, I wandered down to the Charles River and encountered a very young goose family with Mommy and Daddy showing their day old babies the world, the Charles River.
Here are a few photos of Mommy and Daddy teaching the kids how to swim and how to explore what little of the habitat has not been destroyed for them.
Here is a photo of another family in the government created wasteland.
2.
Recent important publications.
Our video on the destruction of Memorial Drive by Massachusetts’ Department of Conservation and Resources and by the City of Cambridge:
https://youtu.be/h_u-woTPRJ8.
Our press release on the publication of the third edition of the video:
http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/press-release-youtube-video-on-charles.html.
3.
The Destroyed Nesting Area.
A.
General.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave the City of Cambridge a detailed analysis of Cambridge’s plans to add to the DCR’s destruction on the Charles River, as part of their bragged about “Grand JunctionPlans.”
Here is the relevant part of their package, showing the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. MIT supported the destruction of those 150 trees on the Charles River with more coming.
The diagonal solid lines show the Grand Junction area. I doubt that the boundaries are exact.
B.
Entrance at the BU Bridge and the Memorial Drive On Ramp.
The top corner is the entrance illegally created by Boston University.
Here is a photo of the entrance taken from the outside.
To the right (outside the shot) are a stairs and a handicapped ramp illegally constructed for the DCR by Boston University for an area, the Destroyed Nesting Area, which has value to nobody except for the animals living in it. The DCR does not like resident animals. The DCR is the embodiment of man destroying our world. Animals have had all their habitat destroyed in this area except for the tiny Destroyed Nesting Area and the DCR and Cambridge are determined to finish the destruction.
Straight ahead is the needlessly destroyed middle area. To the left is the needlessly destroyed area next to the on ramp to Memorial Drive. Dirt which replaced "ameliorations" are visible in each area, details in subsections E and F below.
The DCR and Cambridge started starving the Charles River White Geese by blocking access to their main residence of the last 35 years at Magazine Beach by constructing what is now a solid wall 16 feet high, preventing access from the water and turning waterfront land into landlocked land without a view of the water.
The DCR admits that the starvation wall is considered unattractive, to put it nicely, by humans, but the DCR is determined to starve the Charles River White Geese.
So the Starvation Wall at Magazine Beach is non negotiable.
Also non negotiable is the starvation wall shown in this photo. After all, they have given themselves a duty to kill off or drive away all resident animals.
Somebody has forced an ability for humans to enter the Destroyed Nesting Area although the Charles River White Geese might be hesitant to walk through this.
This entrance was blocked by the DCR as part of the DCR’s starvation campaign.
The only food left to the White Geese is grass under and next to Memorial Drive.
They are very cautious jaywalkers. They look both ways before crossing the ramp to make certain it is safe. But, they are geese. Some of them dawdle in crossing.
Watching the occasional back up of cars while they cross is illuminating. The drivers all have big smiles on their faces. The geese are beautiful. They need food, and are doing the best they can.
The drivers realize this and are very happy to wait.
But the DCR wants to starve them.
C.
Hill top to the south of the entrance.
This hilltop before the DCR destruction was filled with ground vegetation like the rest of the Destroyed Nesting Area.
This was destroyed in the BU Bridge project. So the DCR put in bushes which, like the Magazine Beach starvation wall, grow thick to the ground to prevent foot access by the White Geese. Most of this irresponsible vegetation has survived, making this area impassible.
Here is a photo from March. The area is to the left. The between the paths is straight ahead. One of the gravel paths introduced is beyond the area between the paths. The second path is closer. The near area is parking lot next to the BU Bridge.
D.
Dead zone next to the BU Bridge.
The government apparently claims that it needs a 100 foot wide dead zone next to the BU Bridge. The dead zone was necessary to work on the BU Bridge and trees and vegetation was destroyed for access for Bridge work.
The DCR lies that it is achieving amelioration. The amelioration consist of dirt, dirt and more dirt. Not a speck of grass, nothing but dirt. This is an excellent location to look at when you think of the lovely promises associated with the destruction of those 150 trees with 100 more coming.
The DCR calls this responsible behavior.
At the top of the deliberate 100 foot strip of dirt is crushed stone abutting the BU Bridge and south of the vegetated hill top. It creates two walkways to the portion of the DNA which was not destroyed in the BU Bridge repairs. This picture shows the dead zone and the parking lot.
E.
Middle, area needlessly destroyed in the BU Bridge work.
The area between the two crushed stone highways, plus the highway was simply destroyed for Make Work for Contractors and to starve the White Geese.
In the middle of this area was planted bushes which have turned out to be responsible. They are not dense at the bottom and thus allow the White Geese to wander.
Most of them died. There was no allowance for maintenance in the Make Work for Contractors, and, of course, no grass allowed. So most of this area is dirt.
Another excellent example of what is coming after the destruction of those 150 trees with 100 plus more coming.
Here are photos of the Charles River White Geese waiting in this area to get out the exit after it was blocked.
F.
Next to the on ramp to Memorial Drive.
This area like every place else was filled with native ground vegetation.
It was needlessly destroyed and irresponsible ground blocking bushes installed much of which was then was allowed to die.
Here is a BU Bridge shot from the winter of destruction. The two crushed stone paths are under snow in front of the area.
G.
Border zone.
Between the BU Bridge destruction and the supposedly undestroyed habitat is a border area.
The amelioration includes thick to the ground vegetation targeted at destroying the habitat for use by the White Geese.
Closer to the native area is previously existing vegetation which was not destroyed by the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.” This vile fraudulently named ground has contempt for the native environment and for resident animals. It destroyed pretty much all ground vegetation in the Wild Area on the far side of the railroad.
Then it destroyed all ground vegetation in the Destroyed Nesting Area except for that which the BU Bridge project would destroy. This resulted in leaving two small patches of native vegetation inside the bizarre border vegetation created in the area which should not have been destroyed and at the inner edge of the 100 foot zone at the BU Bridge.
Here is a photo of the border area during the use of the most sensitive area as a parking lot by the DCR and the irresponsible railroad workers. The native vegetation is to the right. Next to it is plastic left over from the BU Bridge work. This is the DCR's idea of remelioration. To the left in the corner is the bushes seen above. At the top is the area next to the on ramp, with Memorial Drive and MIT's building above that.
The DCR's introduced vegetation is rudimentary at this point.
Here are photos through the border area of some of the irresponsible parking under the beloved large, perhaps doomed, trees.
H.
Riverfront.
This is where the goose family photos were taken. Trees abutting the Charles have not YET been destroyed, but the destruction plans for the 250 plus tree destruction are ambivalent. It could be the intention of the DCR and Cambridge to destroy all these trees like it is the intention of the DCR and Cambridge to destroy the Wild Area.
Here is a photo from February just after the DCR did the worst of its destruction of hundreds of trees on the Charles River.
This photo is taken from the BU Bridge, which is on the left. The Charles River frontage is straight ahead. The Grand Junction Bridge is to the right, and the Wild area to the Far Right. The first family pictures were from the left end of the frontage. The last from the opening to the right.
Photos of the area from the ground from last Saturday are of limited value because of the extreme variations in light. The family pictures cropped out the vegation because it was took dark because of the contrast. This photo is taken from the Dead Zone next to the BU Bridge. The dirt is an extension of the main, and destroyed, goose area, just below the two trucks in the repeated photo.
All ground vegetation has been destroyed under the trees.
Here is a photo, regular sized and blown up from a March shoot, of a flotilla in the same area, showing the destruction under the trees.
I.
Woods next to the Tracks.
This area is most important to the White Geese. Its excellent ground vegetation was destroyed by the CRC and the situation was made worse by the railroad workers unexplained items in the MIT satellite view are the work of the railroad workers.
They used the heart of the White Geese habitat for parking. In spite of the fact that there was plenty or room for them to park under and next to Memorial Drive. Tbey dumped crushed stone in this area which was previously clean of crushed stone.
The Cambridge Conservation Commission staff condemned the destructiveness. The DCR management blessed the destruction outside a tiny are next to the Charles River to which the Cambridge City Council has limited the legal powers of the Conservation Commission.
There are a number of piles of ground vegetation in this area. The DCR / its agents have destroyed and destroyed and destroyed. Then they left the formally good vegetation in piles. Eventually, this stuff could be mulch. I am confident that, once it has value, that will also be destroyed.
J.
The Wild Area next to the tracks.
This steep bank between the Charles River and the railroad was used for nesting by the White Geese probably up to this year. This vegetation has been destroyed like the rest of the vegetation was by the DCR.
Destruction near the tracks would have been done by the railroad division of MassDOT, on the hillside?
4.
Summary.
We are dealing with belligerently rotten people. They rather clearly seem to see their function as dual:
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Kill off all resident animals.
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Make Work for Contractors.
Nothing else has value to these people.
And they just destroyed 150 trees with 100 plus more coming.
And they want to make the outrage at Magazine Beach worse.
And I think the adult in the room, MassDOT should take over management of the environment from the DCR.
