The Biggest Expert on Magazine Beach speaks out on the Impending Outrage

The Biggest Expert on Magazine Beach speaks out on the Impending Outrage

1. Comment from Phil Barber
2. Phil Barber’s experience.
3. The Rest of Us.


1. Comment from Phil Barber

I have, on October 28, received the following from Phil Barber in response to the email version of my report on the Cambridge Conservation Commission tour of Magazine Beach at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-spot-report-tour-of.html.

Phil's Comments:

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Hi Bob, thanks for the updates. I am horrified (though not surprised) that they propose to destroy that beautiful grove of cottonwoods. I've been observing and photographing them for decades. Magazine Beach's resident red tailed hawk calls those trees home. A few of them have died and could be taken down for safety but the rest are solid strong trees with many years of life left. There is another stand of cottonwoods in the old SImplex area, which follows the curve of the former railroad spur that ran behind Sidney and Albany Streets (near Emily), and they are much larger and older and are flourishing.

It also interests me that the small parking loop near the pool opposite the gas station is to be removed. In the summer I see mostly black families from Riverside enjoying the picnic tables there by this parking place and I wonder if, that in true "liberal" hypocrisy, restricting their access is also part of "improving" our park for the gentrifiers.

2. Phil Barber’s experience.

Phil’s knowledge and dedication is clearly the best.

Phil has been visiting and recording Magazine Beach since the 1980's.

Phil has recorded Magazine Beach and the Charles River White Geese at http://www.historicpages.com/geese/wg.htm, with photos dating back to the 1980's.  Please check them.  You will like them.

Here my favorite of his photos, from the late 2000s, the Charles River White Ducks.

He predates the rest of us by decades.

3. The Rest of Us.

I first learned of the plans to destroy Magazine Beach from the announcement of one of the fake groups that they were working to “improve,” i.e. destroy, Magazine Beach in 1996.

They presented destruction plans from the Cambridge City Manager in 1997.

These plans achieved some terrible things in the 2000s, and are being made worse by the matters I am currently reporting.

For years, all I could get from anybody was that “they would never stoop so low.”

In 1999, I obtained the then plans from the now legislature destroyed Metropolitan District Commission.

The MDC planning chief, on providing me the copy, pointed out the small areas where her plans deviated from those created by the Cambridge City Manager for the fake group.

Those plans ARE THE BASIS FOR THE CURRENT OUTRAGE.

The first destruction was done by Boston University in accordance with an illegal contract with the MDC by which Boston University attempted, unsuccessfully, to turn the Destroyed Nesting Area into part of the Boston University campus.

Starting in March 2000, when the Charles River White Geese returned to their nesting area, Friends of the White Geese publicly organized.

In those early days, we had a two person core group.  We created Friends of the White Geese and obtained Attorney General recognition.  We each met the people who were most involved.

Reen LittleBrook, a Native American was, at that time the best friend to the Charles River White Geese.  He provided them full friendship and assistance.  He treated their medical problems with traditional Native American remedies.

LittleBrook, a few years later, got a bicycle.  A few days after that he got into a traffic accident and wound up in the hospital and rehab for months.  He, to his regret, is no longer physically able to return to aiding the Charles River White Geese.

First my cocreator took over the feeding.  Then we and friends created The Charles River Urban Wilds Initiative as a federally tax exempt organization to take over the duties LittleBrook did.  That entity is so far separate from the Friends of the White Geese that I really do not have a good contact for them except to look for them at the Destroyed Nesting Area.

While, clearly, LittleBrook and the Charles River Urban Wilds Initiative have been the people closest to the Charles River White Geese since about 1996 or a bit earlier, and I and others have been doing the political activity since 1999, Phil Barber predates us by decades.

To Cambridge, MA, USA Government: Governmental Destruction on the Charles River, Late 2016, Part 2

To Cambridge, MA, USA Government:  Governmental Destruction on the Charles River, Late 2016, Part 2

1. Introduction.
2. Scanned copy..
3. Copy, usable format for this blog.


1. Introduction.

On October 26, 2016, I delivered a letter to the Cambridge City Clerk for the City Council (copy noted for the incoming City Manager) at its next meeting.  The letter is reproduced in section 3 below as best works for this medium.  Rather amazingly, City Manager DePasquale does not seem to have taken office yet.  So I am now holding two letters for him.

Because the format of this letter cannot meaningfully be transmitted in the blog medium, I am providing a scanned copy of the letter in section 2, then the Blog readable copy in section 3.

This is my second formal transmittal on this outrage.  I am trying to communicate without overloading.  The first transmittal was the original, fraudulent plans.  This second transmittal goes into the fraud proven in the plans during the Cambridge Conservation Commission site review.

That leaves me with the outrages in the rest of the plans including analysis of the lies through word games, plus there are detailed documents to be provided.

The DCR submitted a subsequent sales pitch to the Cambridge Conservation Commission which purports to be a plan.  It is dominated by the DCR’s lies through fake definition, and I very seriously doubt if I want to dignify that beautiful lie with publishing it here.  The DCR is admitting more destruction in that beautiful than appeared in the fraudulent plans.  So I am at a loss as to how to communicate the additional four trees they currently admit to destroying in addition to those in the fraudulent plans.

I filed an extensive email complaint about the fraudulent plans to what appears to be a centralized part of the DCR and got a response that it is being passed on to what appears to be the appropriate person.

I anticipate I will next pass on to the Cambridge City Council a copy of the email complaint to the DCR.  I will also try to figure out if council rules allow me to formally get individual copies of the DVD containing the record of hundreds of trees already destroyed by the DCR, Cambridge and their Cheerleaders.

2. Scanned copy..

3. Copy, usable format for this blog.

October 26, 2016

City Manager Louis A DePasquale
City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA   02139

City Council, City of Cambridge, c/o City Clerk
City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA   02139

RE: Governmental Destruction on the Charles River, Late 2016, Part 2

Gentlemen / Ladies:

On October 4, 2016, I hand delivered my previous letter on this topic to the Cambridge City Council, care of the City Clerk.  I hope that, by the time I deliver this follow up, City Manager DePasquale will be in office, so I can deliver the October 4, 2016 letter with this one.

This photo is of one of the most visible targets for destruction left on the Charles River by the Cambridge City Manager Machine, the Department of Conservation and Recreation and their Cheerleaders.  It is a magnificent grove looming over the western end of the Magazine Beach playing fields.

A bit over a year ago, then Cambridge City Manager Rossi told a gathering at the main branch of the Cambridge Public Library that Cambridge was greatly improving the Charles River.  Since, on environmental matters, there was a tradition in the three member Cambridge City Manager Machine, from 1974 to, hopefully, 2016, that such proclamations were usually more important for the lies of omission than for the proud things the then City Manager wanted folks to know about, I did not go in.

Earlier this year, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, with the obvious support and approval of the Cambridge City Manager Machine and their Cheerleaders, destroyed hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges with a lot more coming.  My video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o summarizes this outrage.

Among other things, secret fine print in the City Council’s Grand Junction plans is intended to make the outrage on the Charles River worse.

Imminent is the destruction of 54 mostly excellent trees on Magazine Beach, at least 30 of them on the hill between the playing fields and the swimming pool.  I gave you the falsified DCR plans for this destruction in my letter of October 4, 2016.

I say “falsified” because it turns out that, currently known planned destruction on the Hill is not 23 but 30, once you get through the lies of fake words.  The photo on the first page is of that beautiful grove which is claimed to be of three trees.  Looking at the grove which is targeted by the DCR / Cambridge in reality, it clearly is ten trees.

Here is the lying plan which I gave to you in my letter of October 4, 2016.  Decent human beings should not be subjected to such outrageous destruction.  Decent human beings should not have to be subjected to repeated lies concerning outrageous destruction.

Emblematic of this outrage is the ten tree grove on the hill which trees proudly dominate the playing fields.

The same people who just destroyed hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges want to destroy 54 trees and rising at Magazine Beach.

In addition to many other outrages, the hopefully dead City Manager Machine. the DCR and their Cheerleaders want to destroy this excellent TEN TREE grove as part of the 30 trees they are destroying on the Magazine Beach hill.

The flat out lie in the formally submitted plans is at the right margin, about a third of the way from the bottom of this plan.   10 doomed trees are shown as 3. [ed: paragraph modified to comport to blog presentation.]

These TEN DOOMED TREES loom over the Magazine Beach playing fields.

On this plan, the rectangle which is at an angle and to the left of the doomed trees is the bathhouse Cambridge’s cheerleaders have been telling folks is the only thing they should look at on the Charles River.  This was while Cambridge and the DCR were destroying those hundreds of trees.  It turns out that another thing these destructive people do not want folks to look at is the THIRTY trees these people are destroying near that bathhouse, and to minimize the scope of their outrage, they are lying that the destruction is TWENTY-THREE trees.

Here are photos of reality, TEN TREES NOT THREE in that grove, making the hill total 30 and climbing and the overall total 54 and climbing.  These photos were taken this last weekend.

These photographs IN NO WAY should be interpreted as showing the full scale of the outrage, simply a most visible part, about which the DCR is indulging in corrupt tactics.

The real purpose behind the pending destruction is, of course, the same as in the destruction achieved earlier this year: Make Work for Contractors.

If we were dealing with a responsible entity, it would be easy to get the guilty bureaucrats fired for lying in these formally submitted plans.  We are not dealing with a responsible entity.  We are dealing with people who just destroyed hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges and want to destroy 54 more and rising..  We are dealing with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.

There are a few reasonable ways to end this outrage.

One is through requests.  This makes sense, but has next to no value particularly since they can and have gone forward with almost no warning.  Plus they have played games with the legislature such as the legislature’s allowing them to destroy years after their approvals expired.

Claims of “lack of jurisdiction” in Cambridge government are silly.  Last I noticed, the DCR is closer than the many governments of the world the Cambridge City Council frequently addresses; the destruction is occurring in the City of Cambridge;  Cambridge has funded destruction on the Charles River; Cambridge’s Development Department is consulted AND HAS BEEN CONSULTED on these outrages.  Any claim of lack of jurisdiction is nonsense.

The option of most meaningful value is to get rid of the DCR legislatively, initiating the legislative process at the same time as initiating discussions.

Implement the wishes of the legislature when it destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission.  The legislature tried to protect the Charles from the destructiveness of the MDC bureaucrats.  Obtain legislation to get rid of the DCR on the Charles River, transferring funds and jurisdiction to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.  MassDOT has been the adult in the room in Charles River matters in which the DCR and Cambridge have been very destructive children.  Home rule legislation is Cambridge’s right.

The smart legislative option would be transfer action by Cambridge’s legislative team with proper rearrangement of funding to MassDOT, but TRANSFER OF MANAGERS AND / OR PLANNERS FORBIDDEN.  The existing outrages are by Metropolitan District Commission functionaries who took their outrages with them to the DCR and destroyed, destroyed, destroyed.

Unfortunately, the irresponsible MDC bureaucrats survived in the DCR and, with the support and approval of the Cambridge City Manager Machine, are aggressively destroying Cambridge’s part of the Charles River.  Legislative action takes time, and the DCR has demonstrated the ability to destroy rapidly and with vigor.

In the interim, Cambridge should exercise the right OF CONTROL OF MAGAZINE BEACH transferred to Cambridge in the agreement for destruction of the 2000s.  The Chief MDC / DCR destroyer has publicly admitted the willingness of the DCR to respect the transfer agreement by which they got the money for the 2000s destruction which was managed by Rossi as top assistant to then City Manager Healy.

With control, it is essential that the City of Cambridge, in addition to finally ending these outrageous plans, destroy the bizarre introduced wall of introduced vegetation walling off Magazine Beach from the Charles, and end the use of poisons on all parts of the Charles River.

End this outrage.  End it now.

Sincerely,


Robert J. La Trémouille
Individually and as Chair,
Friends of the White Geese

Charles River: Request to DCR - Fire Key Charles River Manager for Fraud.

Charles River: Request to DCR - Fire Key Charles River Manager for Fraud.

I. Introduction.
II. Key provisions.
A. DCR 0. Supplement / Executive Summary.
B. DCR 5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.
C. DCR 5.C.  c. 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.
D. Blog Report, 1.e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”
III. Link and key photos.
IV. Letter to DCR main, unedited.
V. Link to blog post appended in whole to DCR communication following the above.


I. Introduction.

The situation at Magazine Beach on the Charles River after the “public meeting” on Thursday is that proposed tree destruction has gone from 42 overall with 23 on the hill above the playing field to, and, this is a minimal number: 51 overall, 30 on the hill.

This number allows for the outright fraud and for increases in the latest plans.  I have not fully evaluated the latest plans to see if there are more secret omissions of added destruction.

Here is a photo of the threatened grove at an appreciative distance.  It needs to be viewed from a distance to be appreciated.

Here are photos of the grove of ten trees from the ground.

Here is the lie submitted by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  The TEN TREES are shown on the right side, a third of the way from the bottom, as THREE trees.

I am doing the best a private party can do in these counts, dealing with bureaucrats who routinely lie through omission and other forms of very real lies.  It is almost certain I will get something wrong.  That is forced when you are doing your best to wade through a corrupt package.

The key manager should be placed in the firing process and his application to the Cambridge Conservation Commission withdrawn with an apology by the Department of Conservation and Recreation because the plans KNOWINGLY LIE.  They reflect 10 trees on the hill as 3.

For this deliberate falsification of plans alone, the key manager should be suspended and placed in the firing review process, and the DCR should apologize to the Cambridge Conservation Commission and withdraw the application.

Thursday night varied between this outright fraud and the sort of gentlemen’s fraud which is so normal with the City of Cambridge and its accomplices.

A “public meeting” with a time limit saw the key speaker speak VERY SLOWLY and drag things to yell lack of time at the end.  And thus conduct a fraudulent “public meeting” which prevented public comment.

I will go into the knowing fraud below.  The gentlemen’s fraud was dominated by lying through word games.

Basically, a lot of excellent trees are being destroyed and the DCR claims to have a right to destroy them because they might die in the next 10, or 20, or 30 or 40, or 50 years.  They are beyond their prime.  How dare you expect the DCR not to destroy them.

Excellence of the trees being destroyed is no excuse according to this fraudulent sales pitch.

A tiny number of nearly problematic trees were given as example and there are trees in bad shape.

The trees that I am aware of that are in worst shape are trees which the DCR and Cambridge planted in the outrage of the 2000s.  There are three (out of 50 plus proposed for destruction) which are in terrible shape.  These are DCR trees from the 2000s.  There are a small number of others which are far along.

Most of the trees this destructive entity wants to destroy are truly excellent trees, using a lie of word games.  “Declining” includes trees beyond the mid point of their life even though they are massive, excellent and very much worthy of admiration.

Here is an excellent example of the vileness of this lie.

Here is the grove of ten excellent trees which dominates the view of the Magazine Beach hill from the Magazine Beach playing fields.  The DCR wants to destroy them all.  It also lies that the ten trees are only three trees, and calls all of them “in decline,” and thus worthy of destruction by them.

I gave closer shots of this excellent grove above.

I am going to proceed with my email communication of the early morning of October 21, 2016, to DCR headquarters by pulling out portions for the purpose of communicating with you.  I will follow up with the communication unedited and a link to my last report on this blog, which was reproduced in full in the DCR headquarters communication following what is reproduced here.

II. Key provisions.

A. DCR 0. Supplement / Executive Summary.

It is my strong opinion, as it has been since my initial exposure to him in 2000, that Mr. Corsi should be fired for incompetence.

Please see point 5.c in this main document, below, and section 1.e. in the copy following the main document which copy transmits my comments on the view on Wednesday, October 19, during which the fraud in the filing was admitted with a bizarre claims of reality.

The fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission adds to grounds for firing.

That fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission should cause the Department of Conservation and Recreation to withdraw the currently pending Magazine Beach application to the Cambridge Conservation Commission with apologies to the CCC.

The next meeting of the CCC is next Monday evening.  Responsible action should be taken by then.  That will give you time for a site visit, preferably today (Cambridge work hours end at 12 noon), and a comparison of the fraudulent plans to reality, followed by suspension of Corsi, followed by termination after proper due process.

This email is being copied to the Cambridge Conservation Commission because of the fraud in the filing and because one or more Commission members and / or staff were present during the admission, with bizarre explanation, of the fraud.

B. DCR 5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.

A review of my video on the hundreds of trees already destroyed, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o will show you the lack of fitness of your MDC bequeathed employees.

A review of my posts with photographs, at the following URLs will show you the horror which your unfit employees are implementing:

C. DCR 5.C.  c. 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.

Note: this was written before the view.  At that time, I did not realize that the MDC / DCR plans submitted to the Conservation Commission were FALSIFIED, at minimum lying that TEN TREES were THREE.  So I referred to three where there really are ten.

I am still in the process of evaluation.  Clearly the situation is, not surprisingly, very terrible.

[ed.  Please follow the link.]

D. Blog Report, 1.e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”

On October 17, working from the plans I had on hand and the 200 or so photos I have taken, I reported an excellent trio of trees being destroyed in a location which is a the edge of the top of the hill / bath house area.  That trio of trees form an excellent backdrop for the playing fields.

That was reported at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.

When I got the tour guide to that point, I pointed out that there are a lot more than three trees in that location.  There clearly are ten free standing trees there not three.

Another secret, dirty definition.

What happens is that the trees, to my view, have been planted close together so that they can be grown together, but they have not been grown together yet and the DCR intends to destroy them before they get a chance to grow together.

There are a number of excellent examples of this type of single large tree creation from multiple trees in the Newport mansion area.

These ten independent trees are shown on the DCR’s maps as three trees.  The latest map shows the three “trees” in decline.  So they call them three trees because they could be grown into and merged into three trees.  But they also call them in “decline”.

But it is ten trees the DCR is calling in “decline.” And they want to destroy about two thirds of them before they can merge.

So the ten separate trees will not be allowed to merge but nevertheless, the ten separate trees are called “three?”

And it would be silly to consider the merged tree as mature until the ten trees are merged into the merged tree.  So the three merged trees cannot possibly be in decline before merger occurs.  But the DCR lies that ten trees are three trees there and that the three trees are in decline.

Flat out lying.

III. Link and key photos.

The blog post which was appended to the end may be read at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-spot-report-tour-of.html.

I have presented the key photos and the lying plans are presented at the beginning of this report.

Here is my fact sheet passed to the chair of the fake public input meeting.

IV. Letter to DCR main, unedited.

RE: Magazine Beach Fake Public Hearing; Request for Firing of Key Manager for Fraud in Filing with Cambridge Conservation Commission and for Incompetence.

0. Supplement / Executive Summary.
1. Fake Public Hearing
2. This outrage is part of the Reason the Legislature destroyed the MDC.
3. Quality of vegetation being destroyed.
4. Contempt for the Charles / Deliberate Starvation of Resident Animals / Tourist Attractions.  DELIBERATE, HEARTLESS ANIMAL ABUSE.
5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.
6. Example of the lack of fitness of the MDC/DCR’s designated “protector.”
7. Contractors love you.
8. Environmental destruction which would be major except for the very much more major outrages from your MDC graduates.
9. My detailed analysis on the view of October 19.

Breakout of analysis of October 19 view:

1. Corrupt Games on trees.
a. Introduction.
b. Lying through word games.
c. Repeated and routine changes.
d. An excellent tree may be destroyed because it is in “decline”.
e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”
f. Trees put in as part of the starvation wall will be redefined as “saved” trees.
2. Tiny opening in Starvation Wall.
3. Lawn to the river.
4. Boat Club
5 Summary.



0. Supplement / Executive Summary.

It is my strong opinion, as it has been since my initial exposure to him in 2000, that Mr. Corsi should be fired for incompetence.

Please see point 5.c in this main document, below, and section 1.e. in the copy following the main document which copy transmits my comments on the view on Wednesday, October 19, during which the fraud in the filing was admitted with a bizarre claims of reality.

The fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission adds to grounds for firing.

That fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission should cause the Department of Conservation and Recreation to withdraw the currently pending Magazine Beach application to the Cambridge Conservation Commission with apologies to the CCC.

The next meeting of the CCC is next Monday evening.  Responsible action should be taken by then.  That will give you time for a site visit, preferably today (Cambridge work hours end at 12 noon), and a comparison of the fraudulent plans to reality, followed by suspension of Corsi, followed by termination after proper due process.

This email is being copied to the Cambridge Conservation Commission because of the fraud in the filing and because one or more Commission members and / or staff were present during the admission, with bizarre explanation, of the fraud.

1. Fake Public Hearing

Your hearing of October 20, 2016 was a fraud conducted on short and nearly nonexistent notice, in the manner regularly conducted by your graduates from the Metropolitan District Commission.

The speaker stretched out his presentation SLOWLY so as to fill all the time allotted and prevent meaningful input, a follow up on maneuvering the legislature to go forward on the destruction of hundreds of trees earlier this year by making “valid” approvals which expired years ago.

Your fraudulent performances have been so bad that NOW EXPIRED hearings on destruction of those hundreds of trees which you accomplished in January and February were conducted in the bowels of MIT to prevent public comment.  This was one more of the same fraud.

Enclosed is my public fact sheet which I submitted to the chair and incorporated by reference recognizing that public comment had been carefully prevented by stretching out and stretching out VERY SLOWLY the presentation.

To summarize the below, the DCR through its destructive MDC incompetents is unfit for management of the Charles River and should be replaced by MassDOT which has been the adult in the room on key matters with the DCR/MDC and the City of Cambridge.  Replacement should specifically prohibit transfer of DCR/MDC planners and managers.

The City of Cambridge MAY be cleaning up their problems by the City Council’s selection of a new City Manager who is not a direct part of the outrage of the last 42 years.  Hopefully the DCR or the legislature will end the outrages for which the DCR/MDC is responsible without further outrages.

2. This outrage is part of the Reason the Legislature destroyed the MDC.

One reason why the legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission was that it was so destructive.

And what has been done to Memorial Drive and is being done to Memorial Drive WITH MDC PLANS is exactly why the legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission.

So a bunch of bureaucrats who were unfit for their jobs with the MDC were transferred to the DCR with irresponsible plans and fake definition of terms and lying through omission.

You are destroying a bunch of excellent trees using code words with secret meanings and they do not even fit the secret meanings.

The unfair definitions are so bad that, in one key location, YOUR UNFIT EMPLOYEES DEFINED ten trees as three.

3. Quality of vegetation being destroyed.

Most trees being destroyed are excellent.  Excellent trees are being destroyed because they, while excellent, have passed the 50% point on their lifespan but, much more importantly, because the contractors need money, and a brief look at the 50 trees and climbing being destroyed, not just the tiny minority they brag of destroying, with show you that you have unfit employees.

4. Contempt for the Charles / Deliberate Starvation of Resident Animals / Tourist Attractions.  DELIBERATE, HEARTLESS ANIMAL ABUSE.

Your unfit employees claim to love the Charles River, and one of the almost total unnegotiable points is blocking off the Charles River.  With a wall of bushes preventing access to the animals who have lived and fed on these grasses for most of the last 35 years because the MDC, now DCR has a policy of killing off or driving away all resident animals.

That wall of bushes installed through the usual lies of omission has cause human beings to avoid the Charles area which should be the big attraction.

And the beautiful, TOURIST ATTRACTION Charles River White Geese are deliberately starved by a long, bizarre wall preventing access TO WHERE THEY LIVED AND FED FOR MOST OF THE LAST 35 YEARS.  The MDC, now DCR’s policy is heartless animal abuse.  So that is what you are doing.

This bizarre wall is being partially “lowered” while keeping it high enough to implement the deliberate starvation and to destroy Magazine Beach as a water related resource.

This bizarre wall was created through flat out lying in the supposedly sacred Charles River Master Plan.  Plans for the playing fields described as a “Lawn to the River,” words which were changed after the lies paved the way.

The bizarre wall is another ADMITTED failure.

The treatment of the Charles River White Geese at their Destroyed Nesting Area to which they have been confined without food has included actions so bad that the Cambridge Conservation Commission stepped in.  And your incompetent manager ordered the destroying parties to cease their outrage WITHIN THE TINY JURISDICTION OF THE CCC, WHILE SPECIFICALLY ALLOWING CONTINUED OUTRAGES outside that small area.

5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.

A review of my video on the hundreds of trees already destroyed, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o will show you the lack of fitness of your MDC bequeathed employees.

A review of my posts with photographs, at the following URLs will show you the horror which your unfit employees are implementing:

a. 10/18/16, Swimming Pool Destruction, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-destruction-threatened.html, goes into the outrage around the Swimming Pool.

b. 10/16/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.  Excellent grove being destroyed which is on the hill, but towers over the playing fields.

c. 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.

Note: this was written before the view.  At that time, I did not realize that the MDC / DCR plans submitted to the Conservation Commission were FALSIFIED, at minimum lying that TEN TREES were THREE.  So I referred to three where there really are ten.

I am still in the process of evaluation.  Clearly the situation is, not surprisingly, very terrible.

d 10/12/16, Charles River, First Magazine Beach Photos, Hill / Swimming Pool DESTRUCTION.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.  Provides photos of doomed trees on the hill west of the playing fields.

e. 10/6/16, Charles River, Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Plea to Cambridge.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-magazine-beach.html.  Includes extensive analysis of a corrupt governmental situation.

The Cambridge City Council is taking action hopefully, to end the City Manager Machine outrage which has been in place since 1974.  The City Manager select to which this letter is addressed is the first new manager since 1974 who is not the top management assistant to his predecessor.  As of this writing, he is still being worked into his new office.

And that City Manager machine is the one around which has been created the fake “protective” groups such as that Ms. Suzi represents.  Her group brags that it has A DUTY TO CENSOR ALL comments on its Listserv negative to the City Manager / his friends.

The fake group fits into a Machine starting with the first of the, hopefully outgoing, City Manager Machine city managers.  James Leo Sullivan had been fired in the 60s.  When he was rehired in 1974, he promised to create a system of “neighborhood associations” which in turn, have people who go to the city government to find out what they think.  I am aware key group member bragging of “expertise,” but in the fine print bragging of going to the City Manager Machine to find out what they think.

The basis for Ms. Suzi’s supposed representation of the neighborhood is a fraudulent machination on April 23, 2013.  They tried to get support for the current outrage in their January 2013 MONTHLY meeting, and could not because of very real displeasure in the meeting, so they told a displeased public meeting to come back at their next monthly meeting.  They then conducted their next monthly meeting more three months later to drive away responsible people.

A horribly complicated motion was discussed in the last ten minutes of the meeting and kept secret until them.  They had driven away responsible people, but they took no chances on any semblance of responsibility.

Since then, they have functioned as an efficient company union, conducting their monthly meetings on a suddenly bimonthly basis.  They openly prevent discussion of environmental outrages until the last ten minutes, timing which is EXACTLY WHAT YOUR INCOMPETENT MANAGERS DID on October 20.

f. 10/3/16, Charles River:  Cambridge Cheerleaders fight to Destroy 42 MORE Trees, at Magazine Beach.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-cambridge-cheerleaders.html.

This series of reports is not complete.  To continue watching YOUR outrages, simply subscribe to the reports at charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com.

The lies of omission are getting more clear, as shown here and in the attached factsheet.  The lies of fake definitions, like the TEN TREES which show up as THREE TREES on the plan are also becoming more clear.

6. Example of the lack of fitness of the MDC/DCR’s designated “protector.”

You have an unfit bunch of employees feeding into a terrible situation in the City of Cambridge with a destructive city government in power as a directly related series of City Managers since 1974.  Around this destructive City Manager Machine has been created a destructive collection of “protective groups” which simply obey orders.

An excellent example of lack of fitness of the City of Cambridge machine into which your unfit employees are feeding occurred when Dr. Robin Pope, a visiting professor and international expert and scholar attempted to communicate to Kathy Suzi after the fake public meeting.  Kathy Suzi is your MDC incompetents designated “defender” of the world.  Pope’s impassioned and well spoken EXPERT plea was replied to by Suzi with directions to talk to your unfit manager on the grounds that he is the guy who does the thinking.

Dr. Pope is doing extended research here as part of her duties with the University of Graz in Austria.  She lives in the Hyatt Regency Cambridge.

Suzi, in turn, is the third head the fake “protective” organization has had in a year.  The “leaders” are running away from the terrible things you AND THEY are doing, washing their hands of responsibility which they really share.

7. Contractors love you.

But the contractors love it.  Among so many other blatant wastes of money, they are paid to destroy excellent trees and they are paid to install saplings to replace trees which should not be destroyed.

8. Environmental destruction which would be major except for the very much more major outrages from your MDC graduates.

We have an annual algae blight on the Charles River which stems from your MDC people’s love for the use of poisons on the banks of the Charles River.  One year, their beloved poisons did not work as well as they would like at Ebersol Field near Massachusetts General Hospital, so they dumped poisons on the riverbank marked “DO NOT USE NEAR WATER.”  THE NEXT DAY the Charles River was dead from Boston Harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

And, as predicted then, the infestation created by your incompetent MDC graduates comes back every year.

Responsible grass management during the 20th Century was replaced, with lies of omission, at the Magazine Beach Playing Fields with poison maintenance.  The poisons, like the bizarre wall were kept secret during planning and simply done.

The poisons have been a failure.  So USE OF POISONS IS BEING EXPANDED to the balance of the area, the top of the hill and the swimming pool area.

To allow for the addition of poisons at the playing fields, the MDC spent money creating a drainage system to drain off poisons which should not be used in the first place.

Your latest destruction includes another expensive drainage system to drain off the added use of poisons.

But the contractors love it.  They are paid to create drainage for poisons which were not needed in the 20th Century and which should not be used now, but they are very happy, and the contractor lobby loves to show up for meetings praising an incompetent management team.

9. My detailed analysis on the view of October 19.

Following is a direct copy of my blog report on the October 19, site review.  The negative comments are fully made part of this analysis.

Please note that the preceding analysis has attempted to minimize duplication of these comments.

V. Link to blog post appended in whole to DCR communication following the above.

The blog post which was appended to the end may be read at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-spot-report-tour-of.html.

Charles River: SPOT REPORT: Tour of Magazine Beach Destruction: Fraud gets Worse

Charles River: SPOT REPORT: Tour of Magazine Beach Destruction: Fraud gets Worse


1. Corrupt Games on trees.
a. Introduction.
b. Lying through word games.
c. Repeated and routine changes.
d. An excellent tree may be destroyed because it is in “decline”.
e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”
f. Trees put in as part of the starvation wall will be redefined as “saved” trees.
2. Tiny opening in Starvation Wall.
3. Lawn to the river.
4. Boat Club
5 Summary.


1. Corrupt Games on trees.

a. Introduction.

I am writing in the evening of October 19, 2016.

I just completed a tour of the Magazine Beach destruction area run by the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation for the Cambridge Conservation Commission.

I have been faced with the usual corrupt games.

b. Lying through word games.

The most basic corrupt tactic is that the bad guys play games with words.  They define words to suit whatever lie they are putting out, and the redefinitions, somehow NEVER work against the goals of the bad guys.

I call that lying.

c. Repeated and routine changes.

First of all, the plans have changed to include outright admission of more destruction.  It took a pulling teeth exercise to get that out of them, but I got a copy of the modified plans.

It is a fool’s dilemma to treat these constant maneuvers as good faith.  I just consider the maneuvers as more lying, and the constantly shifting baseline is just another tactic to get the good guys to chase their tails to try to be fair.  With regard to  the people with whom we are dealing, fair play is a game, a weakness for the bad guys to take advantage of.

I will give the non stop games the respect they deserve, and the respect they deserve is flat out contempt.

I will live with the games so as to recognize them editorially, and I will to try to figure out reality in spite of the games.  I will not sucker into trying to recognize every “modification” or “definition” except in accordance with reality.

AT MINIMUM, 2 more trees are admitted as being destroyed.

d. An excellent tree may be destroyed because it is in “decline”.

First of all, another example of lying through definition.

The plans shown today show a lot of trees “declining.”  My understanding is there is a point where a tree is at its peak, comparable to middle age in humans.  Under the DCR’s definition of “decline,” there is a point of tree middle age which is the peak, perfection of treedom.

Under their secret definition, and translating the latest plans passed out, any tree which has reached peak maturity YESTERDAY, is now in decline.

EVEN IF IT IS A CLEARLY EXCELLENT TREE.

In human terms, say you consider 45 to be peak maturity for a human being.  Under the DCR argument, once that person OR TREE passed peak middle age, 45, it is in decline and the DCR has a right to destroy it using that as an excuse.

Just more lying.

There are a lot of clearly excellent trees they claim to have a right to destroy because they are “in decline” , ONE DAY or more beyond that magic day of perfection, EVEN IF THEY ARE CLEARLY EXCELLENT TREES.

e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”

On October 17, working from the plans I had on hand and the 200 or so photos I have taken, I reported an excellent trio of trees being destroyed in a location which is a the edge of the top of the hill / bath house area.  That trio of trees form an excellent backdrop for the playing fields.

That was reported at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.

When I got the tour guide to that point, I pointed out that there are a lot more than three trees in that location.  There clearly are ten free standing trees there not three.

Another secret, dirty definition.

What happens is that the trees, to my view, have been planted close together so that they can be grown together, but they have not been grown together yet and the DCR intends to destroy them before they get a chance to grow together.

There are a number of excellent examples of this type of single large tree creation from multiple trees in the Newport mansion area.

These ten independent trees are shown on the DCR’s maps as three trees.  The latest map shows the three “trees” in decline.  So they call them three trees because they could be grown into and merged into three trees.  But they also call them in “decline”.

But it is ten trees the DCR is calling in “decline.” And they want to destroy about two thirds of them before they can merge.

So the ten separate trees will not be allowed to merge but nevertheless, the ten separate trees are called “three?”

And it would be silly to consider the merged tree as mature until the ten trees are merged into the merged tree.  So the three merged trees cannot possibly be in decline before merger occurs.  But the DCR lies that ten trees are three trees there and that the three trees are in decline.

Flat out lying.

f. Trees put in as part of the starvation wall will be redefined as “saved” trees.

They suddenly discovered that the INTRODUCED wall of bushes includes trees.  They want to keep the wall blocking to starve the Charles River White Geese, so they are recognizing introduced stuff that grew into trees, which they will now recognize as trees being saved.

2. Tiny opening in Starvation Wall.

The Starvation Wall has a tiny opening in it.

It has suddenly be defined as a kayuk ramp, the first time that term has ever been used.  The reality is that the opening corresponds to an opening the highway the DCR and Cambridge wanted to use to connect to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  IN THE CHARLES RIVER.

This clearly has proven to be more blatantly irresponsible than they can get away with.

So they now call it a kayuk ramp.

A fake pond was initially created which the Charles River White Geese loved and used to access their feeding area of most of the last 35 years.  Failure to starve the Charles River White Geese was unacceptable, so it was converted into an artificial wetlands, and a massive internal wall of introduced shrubs was added to REALLY prevent access.

The tiny opening is being expanded.  It is now officially a kayak ramp, and the DCR wants to force the public to pay to use any boats larger than a kayak.

So they are adding a permanent structure for observation, which would be more difficult to destroy later, and bragging that they are “allowing” kayaks.

3. Lawn to the river.

The DCR, or somebody, mentioned the requirements of the sanctified Charles River Master Plan.

I pointed out that the starvation wall is sitting in the middle of an area promised to be a LAWN TO THE RIVER.

They do not want a LAWN TO THE RIVER.  They do not want MEANINGFUL ACCESS TO THE RIVER.  That would prevent their deliberate starvation of the Charles River White Geese.

We got a whole bunch of confusion after that.

4. Boat Club

There is a boat club in the area which I have called the western area because it is on that portion of the destruction plans.  The Boat Club members use the parking lot behind the swimming pool.

I pointed out to one of the members that trees are being destroyed (and the number being destroyed is increasing) to move the parking lot.

The member was very insistent that the Boat Club owns the parking lot and that the DCR has no business destroying anything there.  He, furthermore, was very insistent there is no plan to do such a thing.

I pointed out that the DCR disagrees with him and was just showing off the level of destruction.

I anticipate the member was wrong, but this sort of situation helps the achievement of irresponsible behavior.  The bureaucrats keep things as secret as possible.  They satisfy the minimum, and that is it.  Meaningful communication might force the bureaucrats to be responsible.

To the bureaucrats, responsible behavior is not acceptable.

5 Summary.

I have tried to get this down as fast as possible.  It is now about an hour and a half since the end of the tour, and you have gotten my fresh recollection.

As I have gone through this, photos would have been excellent.  You have one link which will give key photos, and I expect I am going to have to get photos of that “three” trees which, in reality are ten.

This is part of the reason why the Legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission.  The MDC was very destructive.  Their planners went to the DCR and are DESTROYING.

I will try to minimize my detailed response of the con games.

These people and their games deserve no respect.

Charles River: Destruction Threatened around Magazine Beach Swimming Pool.

Charles River:   Destruction Threatened around Magazine Beach Swimming Pool.

0. Supplement.
1. Introduction.
2. Destruction plans.
3. Doomed trees, swimming pool.
a. Views from across the street.
b. Views from the Magazine Beach area.
4. Summary.
5. Prior reports.
a. Accomplished Destruction.
b. This series, current threats.

0. Supplement.

These reports are issued in three formats.  This blog has the complete report.

Condensed reports are published on Facebook and in an email mailing.  Both include the URL for the complete report.

As I went to put out the condensed reports, I received a communication from the key woman who has been in the middle of the fight for massive destruction of the environment on the Charles River.

She and her friends pulled a Company Union fraud which could have been key in the destruction of hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive this year.

Now she is putting out the flat out lie. that the trees she is fighting to destroy at Magazine Beach NEED to be destroyed.

I have seen way too much of this sort of behavior under the Cambridge City Manager Machine which has been in power in Cambridge since 1974.  Honesty will not get the bad guys the terrible things they have fought for because Cambridge has an electorate which wants a responsible government.

So a well organized small minority indulges in corrupt tactics to achieve the goals of a bad city government / its friends in spite of the direct conflict with the clearly wished goals of so many Cambridge residents.  A tiny number of people can raise Hell with a bunch of well meaning people who do not understand but want to be fair.

It is my very strong hope that the City Manager select will clean up the mess which has dominated politics in the City of Cambridge in an increasingly effective manner starting in 1974.


1. Introduction.

This report is the latest in a series.  The series, with URL’s is presented in the last part of the report.

This report concentrates on destruction at the Magazine Beach swimming pool.


2. Destruction plans.

First of all, here is a satellite photo of this portion of Cambridge and the Charles River.  Magazine Beach IS the curve of the river.  Boston is below the river, Cambridge above.

Here is the index to the destruction plans.

To use these on our scanner, we have divided each page into two parts: right / left, west / east.

On the plan of plans, the western part of the destruction area leads, followed by the swimming pool area, followed by the hill / bath house area, followed by the playing fields.

This report concerns the swimming pool area, so here is the relevant part of that page.  The right hand side includes no trees, so I am not repeating it.

The vaguely rectangular building is the swimming pool.

The massive destruction on the hill is connected to the swimming pool on the right, so please review that report to place this destruction in context.  It is all one irresponsible package.  Document links in section 4 provides this information.

To place things in context, here is the destruction plan to the east of the swimming pool.

3. Doomed trees, swimming pool.

a. Views from across the street.

The most irresponsible destruction faces Memorial Drive.

Here is the view approaching the swimming pool.  This area was reported in the first hill destruction report.  However, the view from Memorial Drive was not provided.

Please compare this photo to the relevant photos and plan for the hill.

The big yellow tree is NOT BEING destroyed.  There are very few other trees in this photo which are also not being destroyed.

This is the same scorched earth destruction practiced by the DCR, Cambridge and their cheerleaders between the BU and Longfellow Bridges, where more destruction is yet to come.

Moving west.  A tree behind the yellow tree is being destroyed, then the next tree to the west is destroyed.

Then one tree is not destroyed.  Looking at the positioning on the plan, it looks like the small yellow tree is being destroyed, and there is another tree mostly hidden by the big yellow tree that is not being destroyed.

Moving west with the camera, the big yellow tree at the entrance dominates the photo. Then follows one tree with leaves and one leafless street trees which are not being destroyed.  After them is a yellow leaved tree which is being destroyed.

Moving west, the doomed yellow leaved tree is followed by another doomed street tree.  Both are dwarfed by a large tree behind them which is not being destroyed.

Moving further west, the doomed tree west of the yellow doomed tree can be seen more clearly.  This is a significant tree.

My guess is that these street trees are being destroyed to extend the gold plated bike highway which replaces the existing perfectly good bike highway, and which is the supposed cause of the destruction of so many of the hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridge.

The waste is so blatant, it is silly to consider these outrages as other than Make Work for Contractors.

Proceeding west, three out of four trees between the sidewalk and the parking lot are being destroyed.  This includes one extremely large tree, of the scale of the one which is not being destroyed and which overwhelms the street trees just shown.  There are two others of significant scale being destroyed and one tiny tree not being destroyed.  The tiny tree not being destroyed is probably on the right with the brown leaves.

The trees hidden by the tree behind the yellow tree look like the victims.

This looks like the two largest condemned trees with the little safe tree to their right.


b. Views from the Magazine Beach area.

Looking from the parking lot, I think the three trees on the left are the three doomed trees.  The nearest tree on the left is the one which previously could not be seen.

Here is a photo from the parking lot, looking past the yellow tree into the swimming pool.  Note the paving on either side of the yellow tree.  The yellow tree is doomed.

Looking at the lay of the parking lot, my guess is that the massive tree straight ahead but partially blocked right and left is doomed.


4. Summary.

Nothing has changed in the 16 years I have been following the vile behavior of Cambridge and the state bureaucracy on this part of the Charles River except that the destructive bureaucrats have been moved to a different department.

The legislature tried to protect the Charles River from a truly reprehensible bureaucracy which operates in lock step with a bad government in the City of Cambridge.  They destroyed the entity containing the bureaucracy, but transferred the irresponsible bureacrats, AND THEIR PLANS, to the DCR.

I have tried for years to avoid mentioning the fraudulent groups which grease the way for a bad government.  I have been forced to mention them.

The fake group through most of this has been the falsely named, and very destructive Charles River Conservancy.  They bragged about the misleading arguments by which they obtained the destruction money for the hundreds of trees destruction.  During the middle of this, dah dah, yet another fake protective group friendly to the City Manager’s people announced its creation and took over with the company union con game which is so popular with groups aligned with the City Manager’s people.

Now the latest fake group has gone public.  It is no longer just a con game.  Their latest leader has publicly supported the destruction of 42 trees in the area for which this fraudulent group has proclaimed love.

The destruction on both sides of the swimming pool is one big outrage.

The city council has replaced the retiring third City Manager of the Cambridge City Manager machine with a manager who is not the primary assistant to that third face in the Machine.  The City Manager position has been passed from City Manager to key assistant, an on.  The City Manager select has been strictly in the financial part of the city government.

That is an improvement, I hope.  We will have to watch the performance of the City Manager select, who has yet to take office.  So far the Acting City Manager is the assistant to the prior one.


5. Prior reports.

a.  Accomplished Destruction.

The Destruction of Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, USA, January - February 2016, Final Cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.

b.  This series, current threats.

(1). 9/28/16, Government Agency Expanding Poison Usage on the Charles River, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/govt-agency-expanding-poison-usage-on.html.
(2). 10/1/16, City Council Extends 42 Year City Manager Machine?  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/cambridge-ma-extends-destructive-42_1.html.  Note: includes links to Court Decisions / “non” Decision damning deliberate Civil Rights violations by the then Cambridge City Manager.  The "non" decision was the Appeals Court panel's denial of Cambridge's appeal.  They refused to dignify the appeal with a formal opinion, but it certainly looks like an opinion.
(3). 10/3/16, Charles River:  Cambridge Cheerleaders fight to Destroy 42 MORE Trees, at Magazine Beach.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-cambridge-cheerleaders.html.
(4). 10/6/16, Charles River, Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Plea to Cambridge.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-magazine-beach.html.  Includes extensive analysis of a corrupt governmental situation.
(5). 10/12/16, Charles River, First Magazine Beach Photos, Hill / Swimming Pool DESTRUCTION.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.  Provides photos of doomed trees on the hill west of the playing fields.
(6). 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.
(7). 10/16/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.  Excellent grove being destroyed which is on the hill, but towers over the playing fields.