Update on recent Cambridge, MA, USA, environmental activity.
1. Introduction.
2. Technical Correction and related.
3. Follow Up.
4. Recent view of former excellence.
1. Introduction.
A week ago, I praised Massachusetts Governor Healey for standing up to Cambridge and the state Department of Conservation and Recreation in their years long starvation attacks on the Charles River White Geese.
I concluded with a report on tree destruction by Cambridge in Central Square, perhaps a mile from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the heartlessly abused 43 year resident and tourist attraction gaggle.
2. Technical Correction and related.
At the end of the report I added:
“CAMBRIDGE just destroyed ‘eight fine healthy locus trees’ in the heart of Central Square,”
First of all, I included a typo. The trees were locust trees. I am not a tree expert. I noticed the lack of a “t” and figured I could be thinking of a plague of locusts” and let it slide. I have learned “locusts” was correct. Additionally, there is a chance that one or more may have been another variety of tree. Since the evidence has been destroyed, it is impossible to check, so let us be with that notation.
The casual destruction of excellence by Cambridge and the DCR is nothing less than outrageous. It gets worse when you listen to city councilors loudly bragging of environmental sainthood.
Cambridge received a Tree City USA award for several years. The game was that Cambridge bragged about a lot of REPLACEMENT trees planted and “neglected” to mention all the trees destroyed by Cambridge.
The most wanton outrage in recent years was the destruction of hundreds of mostly excellent trees on Memorial Drive between the BU and Longfellow Bridges, followed by the ongoing destruction of 65 (number keeps increasing) at Magazine Beach on Memorial Drive, the in season residence of the Charles River White Geese, UNTIL CAMBRIDGE AND THE DCR STARTED STARVING THEM AND OTHERWISE ABUSING THEM.
Last I heard, the Cambridge City Council had funded the hiring of the woman who poisoned the Charles River to do the planning of the destruction of the excellent MicroCenter Grove as part of the 65 tree destruction. A few years earlier, she provided the City Council with plans she had agreed to which would destroy that grove. The poisoning was done as agent for the DCR, with assistance in removed destroyed excellent vegetation from Cambridge.
Planning for destruction, of course, was also with the DCR.
And the Cambridge City Council keeps up its bizarre claims of environmental sainthood.
3. Follow Up.
I have gotten the following comment:
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I've passed by the site of the destruction a couple of times now and it just sickens me to see the stumps of those beautiful, healthy trees. There were street trees along with the ones in the raised planters, which tends to give me the idea they may have been of several species. So many street trees dying on the neighborhood streets, and here we lose these fine hardy specimens. You'd think a city as rich as Cambridge could afford to have them professionally excavated and safely moved elsewhere, at the very least.
There are two huge locusts in the yard of my neighbor behind me. One is a black locust, that bears clouds of sweet-smelling white blossoms in June (it looks like it snowed in my yard when the petals fall from the tree) and the other a honey locust that is probably a good 60' tall. Locust wood is exceptionally strong and bug resistant. When I lived on a farm many years ago there was a pasture enclosed by a locust wood fence whose posts the locals told me had been put in during the Civil War, and it was still sound.
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4. Recent view of former excellence.
Wednesday, I passed by the destroyed excellence in Central Square.
Here are two photos I took as an update:
