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.
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.
