Animal abuse / starving continues and accelerates on the Charles along with tree and environmental destruction. . . . The Harm and the SECRECY must end .

 RE: Animal abuse / starving continues and accelerates on the Charles along with tree and environmental destruction.  Continued and accelerating animal / tree / environment destruction particularly in the mile of the Charles River centered on the BU Bridge which is implemented in SECRECY.  The Harm and the SECRECY must end .

The Cambridge, MA, USA, City Council will be receiving our letter with the above title on January 23, 2023.  It may be read at:  https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3797&Inline=True, Pages 266 to 290.

The outrageous situation on the Charles is continuing with the pols lying about environmental sainthood and assisted by a well organized but small bunch of cheerleaders.  This letter, as long as it is, goes into a lot of detail on the ongoing outrage and the SECRECY involved.

The new City Manager has been of assistance in passing on our December 1 letter to the Cambridge Conservation Commission, resulting in an email response by them, followed by our detailed 8 point follow up email with a lot of attachments less than 5 hours later.  This latest letter was delayed, trying to give the Cambridge Conservation Commission an opportunity to, at least, reply through the City Manager.  After all, they did say they welcomed our response.  As is normal with the government of the City of Cambridge, there has been no response, but the City Manager passing on that direction was encouraging.

I have commonly posted such letters here in total.  My current situation involves a work overload on my paid employment as a SAG AFTRA actor.  Part of my duties during the next month involve watching all of the nominated movies and all of the seasons of the nominated TV shows in order to cast my ballot for the SAG Awards.  Duty calls.  That will have to take priority, and it amounts to a very massive time commitment.

You definitely can read the letter at the above URL.  It is a bit awkward to access.

I also have the letter and attachments available in PDF copies, three total, to keep file size manageable.  I will be pleased to provide them on request to boblat@yahoo.com.  The structure is that the first file is the first 8 pages of the letter, then pages 9 to 21, then the five pages of attachments, including the exchange of emails, but not the massive attachments to my email.

Here is the first page of the letter.  It amounts to a summary in slide format.

And here, copied from the off line copy of page 2, is the index:

RE: Animal abuse / starving continues and accelerates on the Charles along with tree and environmental destruction.  Continued and accelerating animal / tree / environment destruction particularly in the mile of the Charles River centered on the BU Bridge which is implemented in SECRECY.  The Harm and the SECRECY must end .

1. Introductory Explanation

2. Base Communications.

3. Cambridge Conservation Commission Secrecy.  No public communication of activities.

4. Pattern of secrecy and destruction in City Council Votes.

A. Secrecy of votes is used to keep Constituents from knowledge.  

B. “New” dock and Starvation Wall Games make destruction unchanged or worse than the destruction of the 2000's.  Animal abuse rather clearly is key.

C. “Openings” in the Starvation Wall that DCR is now bragging about are nonsense.

D. The amount of tree destruction documentation achieved and still planned in our files and our letters is overwhelming. 

E. Activities further west continue antipathy toward ground vegetation and toward healthy trees.

F. Destruction of key trees at the Pedestrian Overpass Just one Example of Way too Much Destruction.

5. Activities are secret to the public.  Public “Review” is limited TO THE “ACTIVIST” / CONTRACTOR WHO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED THE PLANS SHE SUPPOSEDLY IS BEING PAID TO WORK ON AND WHO POISONED THE CHARLES RIVER among other things.

A. Her Record As a government contractor in multiple instances.

(1) Destruction pending on the MicroCenter Grove.

(2) The poisoning of the Charles River as an agent of the Department of Conservation and Recreation with the assistance of the City of Cambridge.

B. Her Record as a supposed community activist.

(1) Assisting destruction by the DCR and Cambridge in this region and plus in the area east of this region running  to the Longfellow Bridge, and

(2) I have seen her and her associates repeatedly lie to people that no trees were being destroyed at Magazine Beach or were planned to be destroyed.

C. The City Council through its assistant has “persuaded” the DCR to substitute “Public Review” solely by Ms. XXXXX and designees for the public review which is is supposedly being done west of JFK Street.

6. Some related events.

A. Landsdowne Station / the Wild Area.

B. A reasonable alternative to destructiveness by Cambridge.

C. Better connections by a Green Line A spur connecting Comm. Ave. at the BU Bridge to Harvard.

7. Attachments.

P.S. Lack of Fitness of DCR..

Responses to my 1/14/23 post based on Phil Barber photo

 Responses to my 1/14/23 post based on Phil Barber photo, 

More Tree Destruction by the City of Cambridge, https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/more-tree-destruction-by-city-of.html.  

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George Despotes, 1/15/23

Would you care to propose legislation?

My response:

The only way to correct this sort of stuff is to replace half +1 of the City Council with people who believe in what they claim to believe in.

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Dory Piccard Dickson, 1/15/23 on photo of Wild Area

This does NOT sound like conservation, or look like it! ):

My response:

It sounds like and is LYING.  Business as usual in the City of Cambridge.  Lies work because of a tiny but loud organization controlled by incumbents and friends.

More Tree Destruction by The City of Cambridge

Report from Phil, January 10, 2023

You're certainly right about the heartless tree killers in Cambridge! Here's Tubman Park (River & Pleasant Sts), three healthy large crabapples and numerous shrubs cut down, the site dug out and paved over. Supposedly they're planning some new kind of park, heck of a way to begin.

Pic below taken today.

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Fits a pattern.

Cambridge and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation have been particularly brutal in their destruction of fruit trees on the Charles River.

Reprehensible and lying of sainthood.

See our video on the outrage on the Charles at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.

And they continue and continue on the Charles River as secretly as possible, restricting even advance knowledge to a GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR and what friends she is bothering to bring in.

Now threatened on the Charles:

The magnificent MicroCenter Grove whose destruction was included in a DCR / CONTRACTOR APPROVED  map given to the Cambridge City Council in 2019.  The Cambridge City Council, in an essentially secret vote voted to fund her to study the future of the park, AFTER SHE TOLD THEM SHE SUPPORTED DESTRUCTION.

Here is another SECRET target..

An assistant to the City Council stepped in to "discuss" destruction on the Charles River REMOVED from DCR plans on the Charles River.  He "got them" to separately consider destruction east of the River Street Bridge the next bridge west of the BU Bridge, the core of the habitat.

This destruction is the Wild Area, a core part of the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.  "Public Review" of destruction in that habitat is limited to the Charles River Poisoner and whatever limited friends she feels like including.

  

DCR plans which were not implemented in the area covered by the Video call for the destruction of EVERY TREE IN THIS EXCELLENT WOODS BUT ONE.

On the left is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  The white figures are a group of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese hunting for food.   CAMBRIDGE AND THE DCR HAS DESTROYED TO THEM OR POISONED pretty all of their food during their residence on the Charles River.