Magnificent TARGETED Willow Downed Naturally at Magazine Beach on the Charles River

Magnificent TARGETED Willow Downed Naturally at Magazine Beach on the Charles River.

1. Magnificent, TARGETED Willow Downed..
a. Just now.
b. The pair of willows.
2. Habitat of the Charles River White Geese Destroyed
a. General.
b. The destruction of the Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, more destruction coming.
c. First starving of the Charles River White Geese, in front of the just downed willow.
2. Habitat of the Charles River White Geese Destroyed and Destroyed.
a. General.
b. The Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, more destruction coming.
c. The MWRA plant and the Playing Fields
d. The western part of the Magazine Beach Recreation Area, west of the downed Willows.
4. Its neighbors.
a. Phil photos.
b. City Council FAKE concern for Bees:
5. Recent publications which go into greater detail.
a. Based on drone videos.
b. The Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, more destruction coming.
c. Detailed FILED plans of the ongoing destruction at Magazine Beach.
d. Destruction in January 2016 with mention of the current and planned outrages.  Before and after photos and DCR plans included.


1. Magnificent, TARGETED Willow Downed..

a. Just now.

A magnificent Willow Tree has been downed in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.

Here are views first from the East and second from the West.

From the playing fields with the end of the Starvation Wall on the left.

From the middle of the grove which it has dominated.

It has been one of now 59+ trees in the area slated for destruction by the Cambridge City Council and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).

ALL PHOTOS FOLLOWING ARE PHIL'S UNTIL JUST BEFORE THE PHOTO OF THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE BEING FED ON THEIR FIRST DAY OF STARVATION BY THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL AND THE DCR.


Eastern Massachusetts has had extreme weather in recent days.

Phil Reports, #1:

A piece of the big willow at MB .down the the high winds Monday, here's a pic

[ed: note the buds.  It was beginning a new season of life. The buildings in the background would be from Boston University on the other side of the Charles.  Telephoto distortion makes them appear larger than they would in person.]

Phil’s Second Report. 

He reported three days after his first report that this excellent tree had fallen.

He stated in two reports:

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I'm now wondering if the loss of that big branch unbalanced the tree and made it more susceptible to the winds that kept blowing all night. The soil was soaked by the rain, making conditions even worse.

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It had been one of a pair.  The first that fell continued alive as is common with willows.  But that was not EXCELLENT enough to keep the guilty state agency, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation  (DCR) happy.

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And here are the healthy roots, no longer in the ground from the willow which just fell.

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b. The pair of willows.

Here are four photos of the pair mentioned by Phil above, first in 2003, in season from the east, then from the west in Spring 2004.

The latter shows the clean river bank next to the playing fields.  In the distance is work in the area of the publicly available dock  There is nothing planted YET to starve the Charles River White Geese.  This is clearly before the Cambridge City Council and the DCR started starving the Charles River White Geese.

The third photo, August 2004, from the east, the playing field, shows the limb down with the Charles River White Geese feeding.

In the second photo, note the clean riverbank.  The Starvation Wall was not implemented with a vengeance until the Cambridge City Council and the DCR started starving the Charles River White Geese in 2008, photo below

The first willow to be killed is to the left in photos from east, right in photo from west.

It lost a branch in 2004 (third photo, August 2004).   The branch, to the left in the photo, was subsequently removed by that December (fourth photo, from the east). 

The entire tree fell and lasted for several years with its roots gaining nourishment from the ground.  It was removed by June 2007 as shown in the following photo.


c. First starving of the Charles River White Geese, in front of the just downed willow.

Here is a photo from another concerned person of the day the Cambridge City Council and the DCR started to starve the Charles River White Geese on April 9 2008.  Note the single willow in the background (the one which just fell).

2. Habitat of the Charles River White Geese Destroyed and Destroyed.

a. General.

The Magazine Beach Recreation Area has at its eastern end the Magazine Beach playing fields.  These playing fields, in turn, are part of miles of river banks to which the City of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation have indulged in outrageous destruction of trees, animal habitat and the Charles River itself.

b. The Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, more destruction coming.

The outrages started with the heartless abuse of the 39 year resident Charles River White Geese and of other resident animals who are less visible and not so visible and generally loved.  The various outrages started in November 1999 with destruction there by Boston University with the destruction of their Nesting Area, which is to the east of the Magazine Beach playing fields, with the Massachusetts Water Resources pollution control facility and the BU Bridge between the two.

Above is the first day the DCR and the Cambridge City Council started to starve them, in the playing fields east of the magnificent, just fallen, willow, on April 9, 2008.

This crop is taken from minute 9.07 of “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1," Drone footage posted on the Internet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw.

The BU Bridge crosses the river, right to left, with the Destroyed Nesting Area below it and the pollution control plant just above it.  At the top is the eastern end of the playing fields.

The asphalt on the right is a bridge of the Memorial Drive boulevard which rises over a traffic circle at the northern (right) end of the BU Bridge.

Taking the still from the bottom left, first you can see part of the BU Boathouse.  Then is the thickly wooded Wild Area WHICH THE DCR WANTS TO DESTROY IN AN UPCOMING PROJECT WHICH HAS HAD FRAUDULENT public announcement with carefully worded “deniable” praise by the Cambridge City Council.

Coming from the Wild Area and going under the BU Bridge is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.  This railroad divides the Wild Area from the Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  The Destroyed Nesting Area has had all its ground vegetation destroyed by the DCR and its friends repeatedly and by various techniques.  Destruction started in November 1999 with illegal work by Boston University.

The Charles River White Geese for most of their 39 year habitat on the Charles River had a habitat about a mile long centered on the BU Bridge.  They lived in their Nesting Area during the nesting season and bad weather.  Now that is the last remnant of that mile long habitat.

c. The MWRA plant and the Playing Fields

After the BU Bridge is the sensitively designed sewage treatment plant (near top of the above drone still)  owned and managed by a different agency, the Massachusetts Water Resources Agency.  This agency brought the progenitors of the Charles River White Geese to their facility in 1981 to serve as guard animals sounding the alarm when the facility was approached.  They continued to be friends of the Charles River White Geese.  They are quiet but responsible.

The Charles River White Geese have been starved by the DCR and the Cambridge City Council starting in April 9, 2008.  Multiple stages of work on Memorial Drive have increased the starvation.  The Cambridge City Council has paid to exacerbate the starvation in three essentially SECRET votes in recent years.

After the treatment plant are the playing fields of the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.

The Charles River White Geese were denied access to their primary habitat at the Magazine Beach Playing Fields and poison uses were initiated for vegetation maintenance.

Currently planned destruction runs between 300 and 400 mostly excellent trees between the Longfellow (2d bridge to the east (behind the camera) and River Street Bridges (the next to the west after the BU Bridge) over the Charles River.  The Magazine Beach Recreation Area’s western end is a few hundred feet east of the River Street Bridge.

Here is a cropping of a drone photo showing the playing fields.  The tall brick building at the top middle of the photo is a hotel on the Boston end of the River Street Bridge.  The crop is taken from  minute 7.11 of “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1," Drone footage posted on the Internet at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw.

The downed tree has been the largest of the trees on the left of the photo at the bend in the Charles River at the end of the playing fields..

The solid wall of greenery lining the Magazine Beach Playing fields is part of a number of activities aimed at starving the Charles River White Geese, the Starvation Wall.

A visible example of the depths to which local government sinks is the recent hiring funded by the Cambridge City Council for “environmental” work in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area  beyond the area shown in this photo a very destructive woman who poisoned the Charles River and caused a public health emergency  in 2019.

Here is a sample of the poisoning in process, Phil photo off Magazine Beach.

She poisoned the Charles River in addition to massive destruction she, the Cambridge City Council and the DCR are in the middle of.  She acted as stated agent for the DCR with direct assistance by the City of Cambridge.

The funding award to the Charles River Poisoner included favorably used terminology used by her as her explanation for the poisoning.  She has been called their “kind of activist” by a member in support of one of the SECRET votes by the Cambridge City Council concerning this area

d. The western part of the Magazine Beach Recreation Area, west of the downed Willows.

I can only include so much.  West of the downed willows is the most intense part of the current outrage.

Between the Longfellow Bridge and the River Street Bridge, the City of Cambridge and the DCR, starting in January 2016, are in the process of destroying 200 to 300 mostly excellent trees, plus animal habitat and poisoning of the Charles River ,   They destroyed more than 150 in January 2106.  The current destruction is of trees in the Magazine Beach Recreation Area includes 59+ of the targeted trees.

THE WORST DESTRUCTION on Magazine Beach starts with the magnificent Willow just downed.  Deails are provided at http://focrwg.com/agenda1.html.  This is a copy of a letter to the Cambridge City Council dated June 6, 2017, responsible to a self-deification orgy conducted by members of the Cambridge City Council on City Hall steps just before May Day 2017.  Just another piece of fraud by a destructive entity.  They went inside and, as their first order, praised this outrage.   I documented the destruction they praise in their orgy of self-deification.


4. Its neighbors.

a. Phil photos.

Butterfly

A juvenile Coopers Hawk

Wasps

[5/10/18]

Canadas

Swans

Tortoise

b. City Council FAKE concern for Bees:

My question to Phil (last September) and his response:

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City Council is praising release of Monarch Butterflies at Danehy. [Ed: Major  North Cambridge park, maybe a mile from Alewife with its own 3.4 acres destruction by the Cambridge City Council and DCR]

Did you not see bees at MB suffering from Roundup poisoning?

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I did, yes. I noted them in abundance unwell last year. They seemed healthy at the beginning of this season, even the yellowjackets which I'd never seen there before but just the other day I saw several affected bumblebees. There were honeybees that seemed Ok, at least until they get into the vile stuff. There's a fair number of monarchs at MB.

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5. Recent publications which go into greater detail.

a. Based on drone videos.

(1). Panoramic Photos of the targeted part of the Charles River, https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/panoramic-photos-of-targeted-part-of.html, March 6, 2020.

(2). Developer Hated NON PAID FOR Vegetation Thrives on Charles River. Charles River Poisoner Paid Off by Cambridge City Council, https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/developer-hated-non-paid-for-vegetation.html, March 29, 2020.

(3). Drone Photos:  Cambridge and DCR Destruction on Magazine Beach, Charles River, part 3, https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/drone-photos-cambridge-and-dcr.html, April 1, 2020.

b. Destruction in January 2016 with mention of the current and planned outrages.  Before and after photos and DCR plans included.

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

c. Detailed FILED plans of the ongoing destruction at Magazine Beach.

THESE PLANS ARE INCOMPLETE.  Latest estimates from subsequent destruction is that, instead of the 54 disclosed mostly excellent trees, the Cambridge City Council and the DCR, are destroying 59+.

http://focrwg.com/agenda1.html.

This communication was signed on June 6, 2017 and presented to the Cambridge City Council at its next meeting.  It responded to a self-deification for their environmental sainthood by members of the Cambridge City Council on the Steps of Cambridge City Hall as part of the celebration of May Day.

Drone Photos: Cambridge and DCR Destruction on Magazine Beach, Charles River, part 3

Drone Photos:  Cambridge and DCR Destruction on Magazine Beach, Charles River, part 3

1. Destruction at the Charles River’s edge.
2. Phil’s Report continued:
3. General Response.
4. Photos.
A. More General Photos.
B. Destruction of fine Ornamental.
C. Destruction of Excellent Mulberry and neighbor.
D. Destruction at work.
E. Heartless Animal Abuse.


1. Destruction at the Charles River’s edge.


My current series of passing on of observations by Phil at Magazine Beach with drone photos have been interrupted by the Coronavirus situation.


Prior reports in this series may be viewed at:


A. “Panoramic Photos of the targeted part of the Charles River,” https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/panoramic-photos-of-targeted-part-of.html, March 6, 2020.


B. “Developer Hated NON PAID FOR Vegetation Thrives on Charles River. Charles River Poisoner Paid Off by Cambridge City Council,” https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/developer-hated-non-paid-for-vegetation.html, March 10, 2020.


2. Phil’s Report continued:

The fences by the old Magazine have blown down yet again so I have been strolling through the area at the river's edge to see what they did.  Lots of people are doing the same, walking their dogs and biking through and there is not a "no trespassing" sign in view if you might want to have a look.  They dumped some boulders and logs at the water's edge, cut back most of the existing flora and replaced it with plants from a nursery.  The path is elevated so finally it shouldn't become impassable after a rain, though the fields are totally waterlogged again.  I think the expensive drainage system they put has completely silted over.


3. General Response.

This continues our analysis of the fraud of environmental saintliness by AT LEAST seven members of the Cambridge, MA, USA, City Council.

Let’s start off, again, with the overall photo of the playing fields and show them again from the drone which I have been presenting.  The original drone footage without cropping is published at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw, entitled “Cambridge to Boston with the DJI Inspire 1, Drone Footage.”  The overview still of interest here is T minute 7.11.  Crops of stills below will cite only the minute the still originated in.

The area Phil reports on today is the area on the Charles River on the upper left.  The massive tree at the corner is on the destruction plans but has not yet been destroyed.

The Cambridge City Council first PRAISED the then announced destruction of 54 (now 60 plus) mostly excellent trees at Magazine Beach in Order number 1 of April 27, 2017.  This followed their May Day self deification on environmental issues presented on City Hall steps just before May Day 2017.  The official record of this vote is published at http://cambridgema.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=1782&Inline=True, pages 309 and 310.

I responded with my letter dated June 6, 2017, forwarding to the Cambridge City Council THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION’s FILED PLANS FOR DESTRUCTION.  These are presented in the plans that this unanimous City Council praised in Order 1 of April 27, 2017.

The letter I filed is posted on the Charles River White Geese webpage at http://focrwg.com/agenda1.pdf.  Links to the official files of this letter and this file have been repeatedly presented to the destructive and fraudulent Cambridge City Council.  It took me a month to put together this highly inclusive collection of OFFICIALLY doomed trees whose destruction the Cambridge City Council praised in typically hypocritical language destroyed in my letter.

The Cambridge City Council does a lot of lies of sainthood.  This latest outrage has paralleled the Magazine Beach outrage in the 2000's, with funds allocation to allow lying of sainthood by the Cambridge City Council, EXCEPT this time, the funds allocation con has included actual destruction by the Cambridge City Council.

The tactic this time has been SECRET votes so vague as to allow fake environmentalists to claim they did not know what they were doing.  The trouble with that pitch is that they very clearly do not want to know what they are doing.

I will not repeat the many reports on this fraud.  An excellent way to get a good view of the outrage is to visit the Charles River White Geese Facebook page.  This page consists of condensations of these reports with selected photos and links to this blog.  Just go back and back and back

A good example of the situation came after a particularly egregious destruction of excellent trees on the Memorial Drive side of the Magazine Beach reservation.  Those excellent trees graced the pedestrian overpass over Memorial Drive.  I leafleted people crossing immediately following the destruction.  The leaflet included a before photo of their excellence at the curve next to the recreation area.  I leafleted telling people that the photo was what the curve looked like THE PRIOR WEEKEND.

The test of me by several Magazine Beach users was by those people neutrally pointing out the work Phil mentions.  I suddenly got appreciative friendliness from folks when I responded by pointing out the tree destruction there.

4. Photos.

A. More General Photos.

The area Phil is reporting on is cropped from the above at minute 7.11.

Visible beyond the Starvation Wall on the left are some of the excellent trees in the Magazine Beach Park

The magnificent doomed willow is at the upper end of the Starvation Wall.  Work has been done under these trees.

Here is my photo of that excellent Willow on the DCR Destruction plans praised by that unanimous City Council.  The Starvation Wall is at the left.

Here, from minute 7.26, is a closer shot of the “old Magazine” mentioned by Phil.

It is beyond the large trees in the above two pictures.

The white area to the left of the magazine is probably the wall which separates the magazine from the river front.

The empty space to the left of the magazine building and to the right rear of that large tree contained the nice and destroyed ornamental mentioned below.

Here is a crop of the swimming pool beyond the “magazine.” This crop is taken from minute 10.02.

In its most recent SECRET vote, the Cambridge City Council funded “environmental” employment by the woman who created the public health hazard in the Charles River in 2019.  The Charles River Poisoner is being paid by the Cambridge City Council for “environmental” work in the grey area.  This work is laying the ground work for the destruction of the excellent trees facing Memorial Drive to the lower right.


B. Destruction of fine Ornamental.

Here is my before picture of this destroyed excellence.  In the background is the wall behind “old Magazine” mentioned by Phil.  In the middle is the excellent ornamental destroyed by the Cambridge City Council as a result of that SECRET vote. 

The DCR and Cambridge City Council have contempt for Ornamentals and fruit trees.

The wall behind the ornamental is part of the decoration for the magazine.  It looms over the river front at this point.

The branch in the upper left of the photo is the large tree showing in the left of the drone photo, second above.

The distant trees are on the Boston side of the Charles River.

Here is a ground photo of that large tree with the since destroyed ornamental in the background.  To the right is a corner of the magazine.

Here is my photo of the destroyed ornamental with the magazine and its wall in the background and the NOT DESTROYED big tree closer to the camera.

That wall is at least six feet high facing the river.

In the drone photo, fourth above, there is an opening to the right of the big tree and beyond it that used to be this ornamental.


C. Destruction of Excellent Mulberry and neighbor.

Here is Phil’s AFTER PHOTO of the excellent Mulberry tree which has been destroyed using the SECRETLY AWARDED funds of the Cambridge City Council.  It was behind the camera in the above picture and blocked out by the large trees shown in the Drone photo.

We are at a disadvantage on showing this tree because it was fraudulently omitted from the destruction plans filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  Most of our photos were taken in the month after the City Council praised the destruction and were partially used in our June 6, 2017 letter cited above.

Here is Phil’s before picture.  It is the extremely large tree which dominates two thirds of this picture whose branches extend to the left end of the photo.  Its base is at the bottom right.

This Mulberry is clearly in the area protected by the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  The Cambridge City Council paid for its destruction in spite of the omission from the filed destruction plans.  The City Council rather consistently has voted for destruction NOT WANTING TO KNOW WHAT IT WAS DOING.

My June 6, 2017 letter only included trees WHOSE DESTRUCTION WAS NOT KEPT SECRET in the plans filed by the DCR.  So all we have are Phil’s file photos.

The highlighted tree is another in the area simply destroyed and kept secret from the filing.  The building in the rear is disproportionately large because of telephoto distortion.  It is on the Boston University campus across the Charles River.  The cars in front of it are on Interstate 90, the Mass. Pike.  This is a 1913 shot by Phil.  The Charles River is visible upon careful observation, including a flotilla of the Charles River White Geese.

D. Destruction at work.

Here are remnants of trees obviously destroyed with the City Council’s SECRET funds.  They have been casually dumped against the Magazine, Phil’s photo.

We cannot be certain which destruction these trees come from, except that they include previously SECRET destruction..

Here is Phil’s photo of destruction machines in action.

Destruction which was previously SECRET raises the destruction count to 60+ on Magazine Beach.

This destruction is part of the middle phase of the destruction of between 300 and 400 trees on the Charles River in Cambridge between the River Street Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge by Cambridge and the DCR.


E. Heartless Animal Abuse.

Phil did not get photos of the area he mentions against the river: “boulders and logs.”

Here is my photo of the area across from the Hyatt Regency where probably comparable destruction was done as a result of the January 2016 outrage.  He mentions boulders and logs.  Here are the boulders.

Every tree across from the Hyatt Regency was destroyed in January 2016.

Our video on that outrage is posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.  It includes a presentations on the Magazine Beach outrage and further outrages east of the BU Bridge planned as Phase 3, and, of course, praised by the Cambridge City Council in the usual “deniable” action..

The Charles River White Geese used to feed in this area.  This Starvation Wall destroyed this part of their habitat for them.  The comparable outrage reported by Phil will do the same.

It looks beautiful unless you have webbed feet and are trying to get out of the Charles River to feed on the luscious vegetation on the shore. The slope above is comparable to the slope in this picture.  Both areas were, readily accessible by the 39 year resident Charles River White Geese until heartless behavior by the Cambridge City Council and DCR proceeded to starve them.

This is an area at the Playing Fields set aside for destruction as part of the funding of the above outrages.  This area is comparable to the Hyatt Regency shore destruction, Phil’s photo.

Here is a photo provided to me of Charles River White Geese being fed in this general area on September 4, 2008, THE DAY THE DESTRUCTIVE Cambridge City Council and the state DCR STARTED TO STARVE THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE.

This fence was the beginning of the series of outrages which became the 16 foot PLUS high Starvation Wall.  The 39 year resident, tourist and resident beloved Charles River White Geese have been kept from their most important habitat AND ITS FOOD since then.

The tree in the upper right corner of the above photo is quite certainly the same tree in the middle here.  It is the excellent and DOOMED willow whose photo I provided above.  NOTE THE DIFFERENCE IN VEGETATION.

MEMBERS OF THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL CALL THEMSELVES ENVIRONMENTAL SAINTS.  They keep their heartless animal abuse, destruction of excellent trees, and destruction of animal habitat as secret as possible.  In the second report of this series, we documented the poisoning of the Charles River by the woman the Cambridge City Council funded to provide “environmental” assistance in the destruction in the area of the swimming pool.  Details are provided in the second report of this series, citation above.

The other part of the lies of environmental sainthood is very much nonstop yelling at the other guy.  They brag of that and keep their very real environmental outrages as secret as possible.