I. Introduction.
II. Section 10 of the June 6, 2017 letter, southeast portion of the Hill.
A. Relevant portion of the black and white destruction map showing how this fits in.
B. Section 10.
III. Subsequent photos.
A. Southeast Hill.
B. Magnificent Grove overhanging Playing Fields, section 9 of the June 6, letter.
IV. Responsible Action, repeating from our letter of June 28, 2017, to the Cambridge City Council.
V. Lies, outright lies and flat out fraud. An analysis for newcomers and for people who need a refresher.
VI. Links to Official Report, Prior Reports in this Series.
I. Introduction.
This is Part 9 of a series placing on the internet record, our attempts at preventing YET MORE DESTRUCTION on the Charles River by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, by the City of Cambridge, MA, and by their cheerleaders. Check the last section of this report for links to referenced documents which are not directly attached to the reference.
The first 6 parts of this series present sections of our 51 page letter to the Cambridge City Council responding to the vote of the Cambridge City Council to help the DCR in its destruction. Key in the vote were two things:
(1) They preceded the vote with a rally for themselves on the steps of Cambridge City Hall, deifying themselves for their environmental sainthood, and
(2) They gave the impression that all they, and their accomplices were doing is destroying “dead and dying” trees. The introduction to our letter wiped out the fraudulent word game which is the source of this false claim, and we presented photos of EVERY tree in the parklands of which they had voted to subsidize the destruction.
We are now proceeding with our presentation of the letter to the Cambridge City Council of June 6, 2017, presenting a tree by tree analysis of what the Cambridge City Council REALLY is destroying at Magazine Beach.
This report presents section 10, which communicates destruction in the southeast corner of the Magazine Beach Hill. These trees are part of 30 mostly excellent trees being destroyed on the hill out of the total of 54, now 56. Trees being destroyed are mostly excellent trees. Plus the Cambridge City Council is supporting continuation / expansion of poisons on the banks of the Charles River. Plus the Cambridge City Council is supporting continuation of the bizarre starvation wall preventing access between the Charles River and the Magazine Beach playing fields/ There are other outrages supported by the April 24, 2014 vote.
Here is the general map of the Magazine Beach recreation area included in DCR’s color (second) destruction map, with fraudulent fine print.
On this map, the Charles River is at the bottom. The BU Bridge is the grey area at the far right. The Magazine Beach recreation area is the green area above the Charles River except for that portion closest to the BU Bridge which is a pollution control plan skillfully integrated into the environment. The gray strip above Magazine Beach is the boulevard to the north of the Charles River, Memorial Drive.
The area which is the principal part of this report is at the top of the tan triangle at the bottom middle of the map.
There are only two trees in this area, however one of the two trees is one of the most important targets for destruction.
We will present this section of the June 6 letter, and follow it with photographs taken on June 26, 2017 which do a much better job of presenting this excellent tree, and a further photograph of the excellent grove overhanging the Memorial Beach playing fields which the Cambridge City Council wants destroyed.
The purpose of our June 26 shoot was to get better photos of yet another area of destruction. Then we noticed the outrage at the MicroCenter shopping center which was the topic of our last report.
Current plans are to send these catch up and improved coverage photos to the Cambridge City Council in time for their mid-Summer meeting at the end of July.
We will add the photos which were the real purpose of that day’s shoot to our report on the area which we decided was inadequately covered.
II. Section 10 of the June 6, 2017 letter, southeast portion of the Hill.
A. Relevant portion of the black and white destruction map showing how this fits in.
This report primarily is on the Southeast portion of the Magazine Beach hill. This shows at the bottom right of this map, the more detailed map, in subsection B, below, is outlined there.
We present one more photo of the magnificent grove overhanging the playing fields. This grove and the relevant detailed map is directly above the one on the southeast hill.
The magnificent, and doomed willow in shown at the bottom right. The photo of the magnificent and mostly doomed grove was taken from the left (west) of the willow.
The other tree which is the subject of this section shows at the upper left of the smaller area map which includes the willow. The building which has been abandoned for 80 years which the cheerleaders have for years told people is the only thing to look at and not to look at the destruction they have been fighting for, is the diagonally shown rectangle touching this smaller map at its upper left corner.
B. Section 10.
10. Southeast Hill.
A. Maps.
There is confusion between the two maps with regard to the north - south walkway. The eastern of the two trees proposed to be destroyed does not seem to have changed in location. The tree at the bottom right dominates the playing fields at the river side to the same extent as OR BETTER THAN the immediately previous grove. It is magnificent.
C. Photos.
Absolutely magnificent, and doomed.
This is another view of the tree in the immediately previous photo on the river side. This tree is dominant at the far western end of the Playing Fields. It is a jewel, and is well worth a second look before it is destroyed.
I repeat. The Department of Conservation and Recreation is not fit to manage the environment of the Charles River.The other tree in this hill south area seems to be planned for destruction because it has the wrong pedigree.
Looking at the map, it is to the far left, next to the building that has been abandoned for 80 years that the fake neighborhood association has been telling people is the ONLY THING ON THE CHARLES THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT. The 80 year abandoned building that the fake group has been telling people is the only thing on the Charles to look at is in the rear of the second shot.
III. Subsequent photos.
A. Southeast Hill.
Here are photos of June 26, 2017 of the magnificent Willow on the Charles which, like the magnificent grove, overwhelms the Magazine Beach playing fields. The photos are taken first from the playing fields side, then from the hill side.
The green things to the left in the first picture are the 16 foot plus high Starvation Wall which prevents movement from the Charles River to the Playing Fields, and vice versa. They very clearly destroy to the playing fields' connection to the Charles River, and have no real value except to starve the Charles River White Geese. The DCR admits that human beings shun them.
With this massive outrage, the playing fields might as well be ten miles from the Charles River.
The hill side. This tree is so massive that it is impossible to get it all in one picture.
B. Magnificent Grove overhanging Playing Fields, presented in section 9 of the June 6, letter.
Also June 26, 2107, photo taken from very close to the position from which I did the last photos of the Willow. They are that close together.
Then again, all the trees are so massive that it is essential to get a good distance to do the shoot. I had the room to do that for the grove, but could not get the room on this side to do so for the Willow.
This photo, for the first time, places this magnificent grove in reference to the playing fields.
The white object slightly to the left of center bottom is a soccer goal. The large trees to the left or those to the left of them are targeted for destruction of truly massive trees, and have been analyzed earlier.
The red object slightly above the bottom and about a third of the way from the right is Memorial Drive starting its overpass.
IV. Responsible Action, repeating from our letter of June 28, 2017, to the Cambridge City Council.
The responsible thing to do is to implement the wishes of the legislature when the legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission, in part to protect the Charles River from the destruction of its irresponsible “planners” in conjunction with the irresponsible “planners” of the Cambridge Development Department, and their controlled fake “protective groups.”
The reprehensible MDC “planners” took their irresponsible plans to the Department of Conservation and Recreation. They and the CDD and the Cambridge City Council are proceeding to implement those irresponsible plans. Hundreds of MOSTLY EXCELLENT trees have already been destroyed on the Charles River, as demonstrated in my videos at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o, and https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.
Behave in a manner consistent with the proclamations of environmental sainthood on the steps of City Hall on April 24, 2017. Fulfill the wishes of the legislature when the legislature destroyed the MDC.
Reverse Order 1 of April 24, 2017.
Prevent any and all alternate sources of funding for this and for ALL SIMILAR OR RELATED outrages, including but not limited to actions of the legislature.
Reverse the destruction of the 2000s by Cambridge and the DCR / MDC.
Oppose the secret fine print in the blatantly deceptive Davis communication. My analysis was provided in a separate letter in the communications a little before the June 6, 2017 letter. I have posted my analysis of the Davis nonsense to the Secretary / CEO of Transportation at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-con-game-fights-for.html, and the analysis attached to that letter of the CDD and its fake protective groups at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-con-game-fights-for.html. The official record is filed a little before my June 6, 2017 letter.
Give the DCR’s powers on the Charles River to the Department of Transportation which has split the former MDC powers with the DCR since the MDC was properly destroyed. MassDOT is not perfect. The DCR and “planners” of the CDD approach being perfect from the wrong direction.
Hopefully, City Manager DePasquale will clean up the outrages remaining from the preceding 42 years of three destructive City Managers by severely pruning the destructiveness of the CDD, which fits hand in glove with the reprehensible DCR / MDC.
In the meantime, I have provided you photos of 4 more trees destroyed by the DCR as part of this outrage, including some really good photos. These, bringing accomplished destruction up to 5, are the first to be destroyed of the very terrible destruction of 54, now 56, MOSTLY EXCELLENT TREES on the Charles River IN ADDITION TO THE HUNDREDS ALREADY DESTROYED east of the BU Bridge.
FIVE supposed justifications for this destruction have now been destroyed. The “justification” for Order 1 is rapidly going to EVEN MORE indisputable non existence.
V. Lies, outright lies and flat out fraud. An analysis for newcomers and for people who need a refresher.
The following is edited from the beginning of my letter of June 6, 2017 to the Cambridge City Council. These 51 pages provide a detailed analysis of the 54, now 56, trees at Magazine Beach for whose destruction the Cambridge City Council has voted to seek funding. This occurred in order number 1 of April 24, 2017, following a rally on City Hall steps by City Councilors praising themselves for their self-proclaimed environmental saintliness.
This analysis is being repeated because readers may need repetition of key issues. Editing has been done in an attempt to isolate the key issues.
People who wish to review the full 51 page analysis are encouraged to review it from the City Clerk’s detailed agenda preparatory to the City Council meeting at which the City Council received the letter. The official record of the letter is posted at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249. This is a large document which is part of a truly massive document containing everything being considered at that meeting. There can be a significant delay in loading it. Should you prefer, we have PDF versions at a size transmittable (5 files) over the Internet. Please just give us a request at boblat@yahoo.com.
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A relevant, and true, comparison that can be made to Order 1 of April 24, 2017, is to compare the 54 trees (now 56) the City Council has supported destroying at Magazine Beach to trees on the City Hall grounds, specifically to the grove directly behind the rear entrance to City Hall.
I was recently very much impressed by this grove. Then it came to me.
[Ed. A photo of this grove was watermarked on the first page of the letter. It appeared under the text at the beginning of the June 4, 2017 letter. Here the photo it is straight out.]
This is a good grove, BUT its individual trees are inferior to a significant number of trees at Magazine Beach which the Cambridge City Council voted to destroy by Order 1. The reality is that the skillful word games used by the DCR in its color amendment to its destruction plans, to justify outrageous destruction are fraud, fraud, fraud. Key words in Order 1 converted skillfully reworded fraud in the DCR color amendment to a statement of an absolute fact. Rewording fraud as absolute fact does not change reality. I presume this order with the fraud was written by the Cambridge Development Department and not by the signers of the order.
In any case, A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF THE TREES THE CITY COUNCIL VOTED TO DESTROY ON MAGAZINE BEACH ARE SUPERIOR TO THE TREES AT THE REAR OF CITY HALL. It is irresponsible and wasteful to destroy them.
I have previously passed on to the City Council and City Manager the wisdom of Phil Barber with regard to destruction proposed on the Charles River. Phil Barber’s words have general relevance to the destruction called for in Order 1 of April 24, 2017.
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It's certainly an outrage to destroy entire stands because of some deadwood or unsightly growth. I see this all too often, that trees that have valiantly survived the elements and abuse are cut down simply because someone judges them not to be sufficiently aesthetic. I imagine people who lack the awareness that these are living beings deserving of care simply see the bottom line, that it's cheaper to ruin an irreplaceable old tree and put in a new one, as if it didn't matter.
I've also seen city workers on the job in the various little parks and public landscaping hacking away willy-nilly at the vegetation blissfully unaware of the difference between weeds and plantings. The lack of concern, and of knowledge, is appalling but such is our time.
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As I have analyzed the original official DCR black and white submittal to the Cambridge Conservation Commission in comparison to the subsequent color package with the fraudulent word games, it has become clear that the proposed destruction in the areas I have previously reported has grown.
While destruction has gotten more irresponsible in the area claimed to be under the protection of the fake neighborhood association associated with the development department, DESTRUCTION IN THE BOAT CLUB AREA WITH MEANINGFUL PROTECTION HAS DROPPED FROM TWO TREES TO ZERO.
There are trees which may accurately be described as dead or dying in the area proposed to be destroyed by Order 1 of April 24, 2017. This report points them out. The dead and dying are almost all outside the core areas of outrageous destruction. Most of the dead and dying are around the playing fields.
This tiny number of dead or dying trees, in no way, justifies the massive destruction supported by Order number 1 of April 24,2017, in spite of the DCR’s skillful word game fraud in the color propaganda package being reworded in Order 1 as absolute truth.
Almost all of the dead and dying trees are at the playing fields, the beginning of my analysis. The parkland, from the east of the pedestrian overpass to the boat club, has the vast majority of doomed trees. These doomed trees are almost all excellent, especially when you ignore the areas which have been improperly added to the parkland.
If “technically correct” language knowingly communicates a different meaning to average human beings who hear normal meanings for that language, usage of the technical language without explanation of the difference from normal language is fraud.
I use the language of normal human beings and I call fraud fraud. I do not go into a long explanation which explanation, to the normal human being, is silly.
The chop, chop, chop mentality of the Department of Conservation and Recreation is one reason why the legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission ‒ to protect, among other things, the Charles River from the horribly irresponsible “planners” of the MDC. Those horribly irresponsible “planners” moved to the DCR. Too many of those “planners,” are now working in the DCR. They, with the bad Cambridge Development Department and others in the City of Cambridge, have just destroyed hundreds of trees east of the BU Bridge.
There are significant and key trees which the DCR and Cambridge want to destroy that they admit are healthy and have not reached their peak beauty. The DCR and Cambridge just want to destroy them.
The color / propaganda package represents the second phase of fighting for destruction. It uses word games. It claims that, if a tree has reached peak perfection plus a day, the DCR and Cambridge have a right to destroy it. The euphemism is “decline.” Translation: while excellent, it only has another 50 years to live (or whatever). This outrageous word game is the sole supposed justification for a very significant part of this outrage. This outrage will devastate the river side of Memorial Drive from east of the pedestrian overpass to the Boat Club.
This outrage was based on skillfully worded fraud. The writers of Order 1, whether the named writers or the Cambridge Development Department, took skillfully worded fraud and converted the skillfully worded fraud to call the skillfully worded fraud an absolute (and false) “truth.”
VI. Links to Official Report, Prior Reports in this Series.
The official and complete Cambridge, MA, USA, City Council record of the letter to them detailing the destruction they supported by that order is posted by the Cambridge City Clerk at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249. It is part of a very large file and takes some time to load.
PDF copies of this filing with the City Council / City Manager may be obtained directly by email from boblat@yahoo.com
Prior Reports in this series may be viewed at:
Part 1, June 10, 2017, repeating Section 1, Introduction, of the Report, in
Charles River: What is being destroyed next, Part 1 at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-what-is-being-destroyed.html.
Part 2, June 11, 2017 Repeating Sections 2, Northeast Corner of the Playing Fields; and 3, Parking Lot of Playing Fields, of the Report, in:
Charles River: What is being destroyed next, Part 2, “Dead and Dying” reality of Magazine Beach, Early History of the Outrages, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-what-is-being-destroyed_11.html
Part 3, June 14, 2017, Repeating Sections 4, Southern Edge of Playing Fields; 5, The Starvation Wall; and 6, The middle of the playing fields. Poison usage. Drainage for poisons that should not be used. of the Report, in:
Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Playing Fields Destruction, Council report part 3, sections 4 to 6, Starvation Wall, Use of Poisons, Some Dead Trees, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach-playing.html
Part 4, repeating section 7, The Start of the BIG Destruction, Northern Edge of Playing Fields, in:
Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Playing Fields Destruction, Council report part 3, sections 7, The Start of the BIG Destruction, Northern Edge of Playing Fields, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach-playing_16.html
Part 5, repeating section 8, Northeast Hill, Northwest playing fields, in:
Charles River, MA, USA: Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Council report part 5, section 8, at the Pedestrian Overpass, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-ma-usa-magazine-beach.html.
Part 6, repeating section 9, Destruction of the Magnificent Grove dominating the Playing Fields.
Charles River, MA, USA: Planned Destruction of Magazine Beach 6, to City Council, section 9, Destruction of the Magnificent Grove dominating the Playing Fields, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-ma-usa-planned.html
Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Part 7, Destruction Starts, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach.html
Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Part 8, EARLY Destruction Proceeds, Doomed Trees Rise from 54 to 56, July 1, 2017.
Posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach.html.
