I. Introduction.
A. General.
B. Map.
C. Details.
II. A very obvious explanation of the purpose of the massive tree destruction on the Charles supported by Cambridge City Council Order 1 on April 24, 2017, promptly after city councilors proclaimed themselves as secular saints for their environmental holiness.
III. Reserved.
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. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s private exit from I90 (Massachusetts Turnpike), taken with editorial improvements, from our July 7, 2017 report.
VII. What You Can Do.
A. Introductory.
B. General.
C. The Institutions.
D. FRIEND THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE ON FACEBOOK.
E. Contribute and / or work.
IX. Links to Official Report, Prior Reports in this Series.
A. General.
B. The outrages last year.
C. Details from the most recent postings.
I. Introduction.
A. General.
The purpose of this blog is to defend the free animals on the Charles River from truly reprehensible governmental entities.
The trouble is that the vile entities we are dealing with simply destroy, destroy and destroy the environment, and the free animals are just part of a reprehensible situation, and there is a lot of fraud involved.
The final section of this report collects recent posts on this blog along with other sources, including videos, of the recent outrages. Since the attacks on the Charles River began, it has always been amazing just how many terrible things they are doing.
It is constantly wrong to think that the latest outrage is the lowest they can go. And, as I try to communicate things, the horror simply amasses. The horror, combined with the fraudulent tactics, require me to provide such great detail, simply to debunk the constant key lies.
This posting is the first of three to communicate my August 3, 2017, letter to the Cambridge City Manager and City Council, presented at the August 7, 2017 meeting of the Cambridge City Council. It is made part of the City of Cambridge records at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1825&Inline=True at pages 176 to 192. The city posting of papers which are part of the meeting record, including this letter, is, itself, massive, hundreds of pages. Downloading the records can be daunting. I would be pleased to provide three email size PDF records of my submittal. Please contact me at boblat@yahoo.com.
This part analyzes for the public record what seems to be very clearly the core reason for the latest destruction, a highway being fought for to provide a personal off ramp from the Massachusetts Turnpike (I90) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The next part will update photos provided. The third will present further thoughts on the corrupt practices in play.
The new material is in part II of this posting. It was part I of the August 3, 2017 letter received on August 7,2017 by the Cambridge City Council.
I will continue sections with background information for the benefit of newcomers and those who wish a refresher.
B. Map.
Here is a map placing this area in context. It is a map from the DCR’s predecessor in August 2001:
C. Details.
The river is the Charles River. The bridge crossing it at the bottom of the map is the Boston University (BU) Bridge. The bridge under it is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge. The area between the two on the upper side of the Charles River is the Destroyed Nesting area of the Charles River White Geese. The area to the right of these and running to the second bridge to the right was destroyed by Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation, including destruction of at minimum 150 trees plus animal habitat.
To the immediate left of the BU Bridge is the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority pollution control plant. It is sensitively designed to fit in with the environment, including a lawn and trees on its roof.
The white area to its left is the driveway and principal parking lot for the Magazine Beach Recreation area. This area extends to the top of the map, the River Street Bridge. The portion left of the parking area is the Magazine Beach Playing Fields. The small circles below the playing fields are: under the MWRA plant, bushes / vegetation, under the playing fields, apparently trees. I do not remember that extent of trees .
The area under the playing fields has almost totally been replaced with a 16 foot high wall of introduced bushes which have no apparent purpose except to keep the Charles River White Geese from the playing fields. The playing fields were their home, food and sleeping area for most of the last 36 years.
The thickly treed area to the left of the playing fields is the hill overlooking the playing fields, including a tiny, beautiful parking lot. 30 or more excellent trees in this area are slated for destruction, along with the parking lot.
The oval and rectangle to the left of the hill area is the Magazine Beach swimming pool and grass between it and the Charles River. To the left of these are seven excellent, healthy trees slated for destruction and other trees. Between the trees and the Charles River is a parking lot which the DCR and Cambridge City Council want to move on top of those seven trees.
Total destruction in the latest plans seems to be 54. 5 trees have already been destroyed.
The square to the left of this area is a privately owned boatclub, analyzed in section II, below. To its left is the balance of the Magazine Beach recreation area, analyzed in section III, below.
Across the Charles River, in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, very visible at the River Street Bridge, are several commercial buildings. Nearest the river is Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road, running through the length between the bridges. To the right of the BU Bridge and south of the roadway, running easily a mile to the east is Boston University. The BU holdings west of the BU Bridge and south of the roadway extend west to about the western end of the playing fields.
West of the BU holdings, south of the highway and the commercial buildings and south of the extension of the River Street Bridge is a massive area which contains I90 (Mass. Turnpike) and a now mostly abandoned railroad yard. Harvard purchased this area with the intent of moving much of its campus here, including, rather clearly, its Medical School.
II. A very obvious explanation of the purpose of the massive tree destruction on the Charles supported by Cambridge City Council Order 1 on April 24, 2017, promptly after city councilors proclaimed themselves as secular saints for their environmental holiness.
Here is a view of the Boston end of the Grand Junction railroad bridge. The green sign straight ahead is over I90 / the Mass. Pike in Boston.
Here is an areal photo (ca. 2009) provided by MassDOT showing the relationship of properties in the BU Bridge / Grand Junction bridge area.
The area in the upper photo is slightly left of top middle of this photo. I90 / Mass. Pike is at the upper left of this photo. This photo shows, in the bottom right corner, the Destroyed Nesting Area before the last eight years of outrages.
Here are better pictures of the Cambridge side of the Charles River. These are the tiny remnants of animal habitat. The top 2 photos are of the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. The bottom photo shows the Wild Area. The white figures in the Charles River in the photos showing the Charles River are flotilla of the Charles River White Geese.
DCR plans which, with Cambridge support, destroyed hundreds of trees east of the BU Bridge call for destruction of the Wild Area, minus one tree. They call for the destruction of an excellent tree on the ramp edge of the Destroyed Nesting Area, shown in the first photo. Cambridge Grand Junction plans call for highway construction in the Destroyed Nesting Area with destruction of trees and call for a fence dividing the two areas. The DCR has repeatedly destroyed in the Destroyed Nesting Area with outrageous wantonness.
Here is an MIT marked up areal photo provided to the Cambridge City Council during recent years presenting properties in the BU Bridge area in the context of Grand Junction development.
The double blue line running across the photo is the Grand Junction Railroad including its bridge. I90 / Mass. Pike is on the left. MIT has significant holdings in the top middle and dominates the area to the right.
In 2003, the MBTA issued a report which demonstrated that an off ramp can be built from the Mass. Pike to the Grand Junction Bridge. There is plenty of room for ramps from I90 to the Grand Junction Bridge. All that is needed is a widening of the Grand Junction Bridge by cantilevering. This would create one railroad lane and two (on / off) vehicle lanes. The report very visibly showed an off ramp to Memorial Drive east through the Wild Area, the thickly vegetated woods between the Grand Junction of the BU Boathouse.
In light of this report, it is silly to consider lovely talk of bike highways anything other than a stalking horse for an updated Inner Belt over the Grand Junction Bridge and up the Grand Junction to MIT.
The City of Cambridge plans for the Waverly Connector, have been accomplished as Waverly Street on the Map, running from the right edge of the Grand Junction to the center top of the areal photo.
The plans showed tree planting details for the Waverly Connector. I pointed out to a key developer type that the plans had empty spots exactly where off ramps from a Mass. Pike off ramp would connect to the Waverly Connector. It is no surprise that the trees were not planted.
The MBTA plans would run this Inner Belt redesigned up the Grand Junction railroad into MIT’s holdings, providing MIT a personal off ramp from I90 / Mass. Pike. The devastation to the natural areas on the Charles is obvious.
With off ramps to the Waverly Connector in the openings in the tree planting plans, traffic from the Mass. Pike easily connects to Brookline Street at the top middle of this plan, then to the BU Bridge rotary, then to Memorial Drive east and west. The blue marks on the DCR destruction map of the area (on page 1) point out entries to / from Memorial Drive which can be merged to speed up traffic on Memorial Drive to make the off ramp work better.
And a whole bunch of excellent trees are being destroyed by a City Council whose members proclaim their environmental sainthood with strikingly absurd explanations. Through no coincidence, the tree destruction eases the merger of these driveways, in addition to providing make work for contractors.
There is nothing complicated about the situation..
The DCR and Cambridge seek to viciously follow their established destructive traditions by destroying massive amounts of excellent trees at Magazine Beach with nonsensical explanation. The obvious explanation is the same old, same old. Contractors get paid to destroy. Contractors get paid to plant far inferior “replacements” for trees which should not have been destroyed in the first place.
The important people, the Contractors, are pleased. The voters listen to the Cambridge City Council praising themselves on City Hall steps for supposed environmental sainthood, and do not realize what happens after the self praise. And the environment does not have a vote, so . . .
The deeper down explanation is facilitating the updated Inner Belt, the private off ramp from I90 / Mass. Pike for the benefit of MIT while deceiving an electorate which wants to be enlightened.
My 51 page analysis of the Magazine Beach destruction the City Council supported by Order 1 of April 24, 2017, may be viewed on line in the City Council records at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 198 to 249. Uploading is slow. This is a large document, and the City Council records for the meeting are massive. I have PDF copies available in 5 emailable records should you wish. Please contact me at boblat@yahoo.com.
My before and after video on the destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridge, with preliminary analysis of the latest outrage may be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.
The “City Manager” who is requested to be fired in the concluding slides of the video is the third member of the Cambridge City Manager Machine, NOT THE CURRENT CITY MANAGER.
My video analyzing the 2016 “improvements” / Make Work for Contractors may be viewed at https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.
There is no real difference in quality between the 2016 destruction and the destruction supported by the Cambridge City Council in Order 1 of April 24, 2017. All it is is an extension of the same outrage, but with a lot of VERY DESTRUCTIVE things much clearer.
Order 1 of April 24, 2017 must be reversed. The DCR must be replaced on the Charles River by MassDOT. A decade and a half of outrage on the Cambridge side of the Charles must be undone, not expanded.
This document in the Cambridge City Council files a little before the above document gives a taste of the terrible Cambridge Development Department and the fake “protective” groups which revolve about it. http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1815&Inline=True, pages 181 to 184.
And the document which precedes it, at pages 177 to 180 (and has the CDD / fake groups document as an attachment) gives yet another example of corrupt practices in the City of Cambridge.
Cambridge’s terrible Development Department and the fake groups must be cleansed.
III. Reserved.
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 is 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. The fight behind the fight, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s private exit from I90 (Massachusetts Turnpike), taken with editorial improvements, from our July 7, 2017 report..
This section is presented above in section II, my first official presentation of this matter on the City Council public record.
VII. What You Can Do.
A. Introductory.
What we need is:
● End the accelerating Charles River destruction by the DCR and by Cambridge.
● Give DCR duties, powers & funds on the Charles River to MassDOT. Trash the bizarre bush wall walling off Charles. End poison use on the Charles’ banks.
● Tell the Cambridge City Council and new City Manager Louis DePasquale to end the destruction, the fake groups and the 42 year long 3 City Manager Machine.
There are two general categories of possible assistance.
B. General.
There are two entities who are a waste of time, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the Cambridge Development Department.
These entities as they have existed for the last 42 years (counting the prior entity which was replaced by the DCR) need to be destroyed, not talked to.
The Cambridge City Manager needs to clean house. A much more detailed analysis is in my letter of welcome to him, posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-trust-cambridge-ma-usas.html.
Here are the key contacts. I hope you can make them. I apologize that a lot of contacts are given through yet another link. The reason for the additional link for legislators is that that gives me only one place to change rather than trying to change every document.
Governor Charles Baker (DCR): 617-725-4005, email form: http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituent-services/contact-governor-office
Cambridge City Manager Louis A. DePasquale, 617-349-4300, ldepasquale@cambridgema.gov
Legislators: 617-722-2000, http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/201304/emails-for-all massachusetts.html
Cambridge City Council. Call them at 617-349-4280, or
Email your comments care of the Cambridge City Clerk. Request that the City Clerk present your entire message to the Cambridge City Council at their next meeting. The Email address is: dlopez@cambridgema.gov
C. The Institutions.
Since 2011, these reports have been read in 106 countries, at last count. It is reasonable to assume that such vast a variety of reading may be by people with contacts in the three key institutions.
The three key institutions involved are:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT is fighting for its personal exit from I90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) in a situation where meaningful activists previously defeated a super highway going through pretty much the same area. So fraud is normal. Similarly, most of Memorial Drive between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge has been and is being turned into an area which is effectively the personal enclave of MIT.
Boston University. This is turf which BU has started to claim for itself. BU did the first destruction as part of its seeking to make this more clearly its turf. A lot of the fine print makes the key areas more hospital to BU. Boston University has conducted graduation activities in the Magazine Beach recreation area.
Harvard University. Harvard is turning the Boston side of the Charles River even more into its private domain with its impending relocation of Harvard Medical School and other facilities into an area in Boston visible from the Cambridge side of the Charles River.
Anybody with contacts with MIT, BU and Harvard knows the contacts better than we do.
Please contact.
D. FRIEND THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE ON FACEBOOK.
The Charles River White Geese have lived on the Charles River since 1981. They are beautiful and loved, a very real tourist attraction. Having lived so long so close to densely populated cities, they well deserved to be studied and praised, not destroyed piece by piece. Their habitat can and should be returned. The barriers to their long time home and food should be removed.
Where they live, other much less visible but very real free animals also live.
Cambridge and the DCR are heartlessly abusing free animals on the Charles River. The DCR PUBLICLY states a desire to kill off or drive away all resident animals on the Charles River Basin. Cambridge and the DCR are unfit to manage the environment. They, particularly the Cambridge City Council, combine their lack of fitness with non stop lies of environmental sainthood.
In the fine print is that proposed off ramp from I90 to MIT in a location where Cambridge brags a super highway was killed by MEANINGFUL PROTECTIVE GROUPS 50 years ago, as opposed to highly visible but fake protective groups with connections to the Cambridge government which have been carefully created and nurtured in the decades since that victory. The replacement highway is having its grounds set through stalking horses, deception and multiple outrages. Naturally, the replacement highway would destroy areas most valuable to free animals.
Here is a plaque which was included in a propaganda show about the Charles River conducted over an extended period in the Cambridge City Hall Annex.
Animals should not be driven off the face of our earth. It is outrageous that these reprehensible government entities, lying about themselves, want to destroy what little sanctuaries free animals have left. Their sanctuaries should be cherished and returned to the status quo of the beginning of this Millennium.
It is reprehensible that, lurking behind the government destructions, are institutions which proclaim themselves throughout the world as enlightened.
The Charles River White Geese are a very visible and beloved symbol of what should be cherished, not destroyed.
The list of friends on Facebook is a very visible show of decency standing up to truly vile government entities and their related “non profit” institutions.
E. Contribute and / or work.
This situation is one of little guys standing up to an entrenched amalgamation of destructive people. There have been major victories over the years. Your help is crucial now.
Friends of the White Geese is the latest in a series of major activities standing up to this very terrible situation. FOWG has been recognized as a charitable non profit by the Attorney General of Massachusetts since 2001.
Our Chair has been active fighting for environmental causes using a number of strategies since 1974. His interests have overlapped with those of Harvard University. During this period, he has had more environmental victories, including major victories, over Harvard University than all other “activists” that he is aware of combined.
Please contribute, either electronically or by snail mail. We have a link at the top of the blog for electronic contributions. Snail mail contributions / checks should be made to “Friends of the White Geese” and should be sent to Friends of the White Geese at Post Office Box 391412, Cambridge, MA 02139.
If you are able and interested in working, please contact us at boblat@yahoo.com.
VII. Links to Official Report, Prior Reports in this Series.
A. The Big Ones during the latest series of outrages.
A lot of links are present on this blog.
The official and complete Cambridge, MA, USA, City Council record of the letter to them detailing the destruction they supported by their order number 1 on April 24, 2017, 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
This outrage, of course, was preceded by a rally of Cambridge City Councilors on the front steps of City Hall, proclaiming their environmental saintliness.
B. The outrages last year.
Videos of the outrages accomplished last year are available on YouTube.
Our video analyzing the outrageous destruction east of the BU Bridge in 2016, with limited comments around and west of the BU Bridge is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.
Our video on the nonsense of “improvements” is posted at https://youtu.be/dWyCdcWMuAA.
There are many links to reports and admiration of the Charles River White Geese at the top of this blog.
One report which is particularly beautiful shows the Charles River White Geese feeding across from the Hyatt Regency Hotel, to the east of their Destroyed Nesting Area. This location is one of the most vicious subjects of the attacks of 2016. ALL TREES WERE DESTROYED and the “improvements” can best be described as irresponsible lies, to the extent they should not have been done WITHOUT DESTRUCTION ten years earlier. This location has a very skillful starvation wall of its own to match the one installed at Magazine Beach with the lie of a “lawn to the river.”
This report on the Charles River White Geese feeding across from the Hyatt Regency Hotel before the destruction of 2016 is “The White Geese of Cambridge” by Eddie Sarno, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2-xSIYrB5o.
C. Details from the most recent postings.
Prior Postings in this series may be viewed at:
(1) Posting 1, June 10, 2017, repeating Section 1, Introduction, of the Report, in Charles River: What is being destroyed next, Posting 1 at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-what-is-being-destroyed.html.
(2) Posting 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, Posting 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
(3) Posting 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 posting 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
(4) Posting 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 posting 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
(5) Posting 5, repeating section 8, Northeast Hill, Northwest playing fields, in: Charles River, MA, USA: Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Council report posting 5, section 8, at the Pedestrian Overpass, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-ma-usa-magazine-beach.html.
(6) Posting 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
(7) Posting 7, Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Posting 7, Destruction Starts, at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach.html
(8) Posting 8, Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Posting 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.
(9) Posting 9, Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Posting 9, southeast hill with magnificent doomed Willow, s. 10 of report, update on magnificent overhanging grove, July 3, 2017, Posted at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach_3.html
(10) Posting 10, Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Posting 10, Near total destruction of Hill Parking Lot, s. 11 of report., July 7, 2017, posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach_7.html
(11) Posting 11, Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Bathhouse & MicroCenter, Posting 11, s. 12 of report.
Posted at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/71217-re-charles-river-ma-magazine.html
(12) Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Trees at Bathhouse & MicroCenter, explanations why, Posting 12, s. 13 of report, posted at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach_17.html
(13) Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Trees West of Bathhouse and across from MicroCenter, Shopping Center, Posting 13, s. 14 of report, July 22, 2017, posted at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/charles-river-ma-magazine-beach_22.html
(14) Charles River, MA: Magazine Beach Destruction: Summary, trees at Boat Club and West, Posting 14, s. 15, 16 and 17 of report., Posted at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2017/08/re-charles-river-ma-magazine-beach.html
