The Charles River White Geese seek food denied to them ‒ IN CONTEXT.
1. The Charles River White Geese seek food in spite of the Cambridge City Council / DCR
2. Analysis.
3. Visual Detail.
4. Context.
5. Magazine Beach.
6. The real target, the private off ramp from Interstate 90 in Boston.
7. The last food of the Charles River White Geese.
A. The blocked entrance to the Destroyed Nesting Area.
B. The on ramp which the Charles River White Geese so carefully cross.
C. The, HORRORS, food under Memorial Drive.
8. The Charles River White Geese admiring the Charles River in Winter.
1. The Charles River White Geese seek food in spite of the Cambridge City Council / DCR
Mike reports:
Hard to fight the good fight for so many years - you are a trouper or perhaps a noble knight (not kidding) a Round Table or Man of LaMancha level.
I was coming on a Bus over the BU Bridge and saw the Charles River White Geese in a clearing to the right along the river as one comes into Cambridge.
2. Analysis.
The Charles River White Geese are extremely responsible jaywalkers.
They stand on the sidewalk and look both ways until everything is clear and then walk over. They cannot help it that they are geese. There is always a straggler, and the cars going up that ramp are filled with commuters with big smiles on their face. Watching that guy finish his dawdling
Here is my latest city council letter on this nightmare: http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm. That is our web page. It is the top letter. The letter is in two parts, a PDF conversion from my word processor which, in turn, got overloaded with all the graphics when it was just one file.
3. Visual Detail.
Here is an overview taken from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage” posted at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw, minute 10:55.
For most of the last 40 years, the Charles River White Geese have lived in a mile long habitat on the Cambridge (left) side of the Charles River centered on the BU Bridge.
Heartless abuse by the Cambridge City Council and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation has destroyed most of that habitat for them except for their Destroyed Nesting Area in the triangle formed by BU Bridge, the on ramp to Memorial Drive (between the Bridge and Memorial Drive) and the Grand Junction Railroad (its bridge highly visible).
The woods beyond the Grand Junction, the Wild Area, is part of their remaining habitat, along with many other free animals, the combination is that last remaining free animal area in this part of the Charles River. The DCR has plans to destroy every tree in the Wild Area but one. The City Council has blessed destruction in a deniable motion which is a very common act, apparently drafted by the Cambridge Development Department. They call this sort of behavior failure of transparency.
The opening where Mike apparently saw the Charles River White Geese group is under Memorial Drive to the far left. The on ramp where they are such careful jaywalkers is the roadway between the DNA and Memorial Drive. It is the last food left to them by the ongoing heartless abuse, and the DCR has a blockade established to keep them from getting that food.
4. Context.
Cambridge and the DCR not that long ago destroyed hundreds of mostly excellent trees between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge (2d bridge east of the BU Bridge, above the top of this photo. Destruction of the Wild Area was not accomplished then, but is now being sneaked in with FRAUDULENT public hearings which lie that the area of destruction ends at the BU Bridge, BUT IS EXPANDED TO THE WILD AREA by slides shown in the “public meetings.”
This particular still starts immediately west of the Wild Area. It extends beyond the next bridge to the east, the Mass. Ave. (officially “Harvard”) Bridge. It is from minute 9.28 of the drone video:
The drone footage was taken just before destruction. Large areas in the still were destroyed in previous years and the DCR deferred replacement of that outrage until they had destroyed the hundreds in January 2016, to give a false impression of responsible behavior.
Our video report of the destruction is posted by me at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o, Memorial Drive Destruction, January 2016, Final Cut. The video gets very close to the Longfellow Bridge with hundreds of photos, including before and after photos, of the destruction, along with plans. The excellence destroyed by Cambridge and the DCR is very clear.
The Grand Junction Railroad is the left of three apparent highways in the photo. It looks like a planned off ramp from Interstate 90 on the Boston side of the Charles River. The apparent lie is that it is to be a bike path. Lots of details in our letter to the Cambridge City Council published on our web page at http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm. It is the first document on the list. It is in two parts. The graphics are so extensive they overloaded my word processor.
5. Magazine Beach.
The Cambridge City Council is an open partner (subject constantly changed) in destruction at Magazine Beach, to the west of the BU Bridge.
Here, from minute 9:13 of the drone footage is a still showing the relationship of the Magazine Beach destruction area to the Destroyed Nesting Area. This was the core part of the habitat of the Charles River White Geese until the heartless abuse from the Cambridge City Council and the DCR started in the 2000's.
At the bottom is the doomed Wild Area, then the Grand Junction Railroad, and the Destroyed Area. Immediately above the BU Bridge is a sensitively designed sewage treatment plant. It is off season. The brown area is a grassed roof.
Following that is the playing fields of the Magazine Beach Recreation area, and excellent and doomed park, a swimming pool, with major destruction planned next to it. The first still comes from minute 1.59.
This closer view of the swimming pool and the magnificent and doomed grove is from minute 2.33.
Here are the DCR plans with photos of doomed trees, posted on the Charles River White Geese web page at . http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.html.
I presented this letter to the Cambridge City Council in response to a public presentation by members of the Cambridge City Council on the City Hall steps May Day 2017. I was responding to the lies of environmental sainthood in the rally and to Order 1 of the Cambridge City Council when they proceeded with their meeting, praising the DCR for this outrage and promising funding for part of the planned destruction. Many funds have since provided, with the MAXIMUM SECRECY possible.
6. The real target, the private off ramp from Interstate 90 in Boston.
In 2003, the local transportation authority, the MBTA, proposed the off ramp mentioned above which is now being called a bike path. Cambridge and the DCR are trying to sneak it into the rebuilding of Interstate 90 in Boston across from the destruction area on the Cambridge side. NON SECRET attempts at related construction have failed because of public opposition. So secret attempts hopefully will yet fail. The responsible agency, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is not perfect, but it is a breath of fresh air compared to the Cambridge City Council and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR).
The above photo from minute 1.59 shows I-90 in the bottom right.
Here is a closer view from minute 4.40.
I-90 is at the bottom right. The plans created a curving loop from the right hand side to the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge (under the BU Bridge) to connect inbound traffic to the Grand Junction. The Grand Junction Bridge would be widened by cantilever construction. Connection to the outbound lanes would be simple.
My detailed letter on the off ramp is mentioned above. The full version is posted on the web page at http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm.
The reality is that a lot of the other destruction looks like it is designed to speed up traffic on Memorial Drive to handle traffic from I-90
7. The last food of the Charles River White Geese.
Going back to the original topic, here are photos of the location where Mike saw the gaggle of the Charles River White Geese.
This opening was created to support the lie that the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese is a public park. It has never been used as that. When the DCR found out that the Charles River White Geese had the nerve to get food under Memorial Drive, they started putting in an obstacle course. Food is not allowed.
A. The blocked entrance to the Destroyed Nesting Area.
B. The on ramp which the Charles River White Geese so carefully cross.
C. The, HORRORS, food under Memorial Drive.
8. The Charles River White Geese admiring the Charles River in Winter.
The structure above is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.
