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Friend the Charles River White Geese on Facebook. ©2005-22, Friends of the White Geese, a MA non-profit.Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comBlogger1645125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-64296111372058871922024-02-22T16:30:00.008-05:002024-02-26T13:05:52.095-05:00Photos of BU Bridge Rotary and Related, Cambridge, MA / Charles River.<p>Photos of BU Bridge Rotary and Related, Cambridge, MA / Charles River.</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>New Photos.</p><p>We have three new photos for you, a rush hour scene of the BU Bridge Rotary, a felled tree near the overpass I showed being “Storrowed” last time, and a new photo of the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>First of all, to place things in perspective, here is the Drone Photo of our principal area:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWKQO7OnJXF5jGM5tOlqYBiUqFxai9SlC3N6jEnJzWUnnsbuko_kTkVhyen-H-_arDsQ95H6U1D7ed6qRF28u73Qt3NGyVAnT7VizPpfQlh4CfZT9WpKnnW40xg7gP6IfwjlwAMC_Fr32Pcyqdtd8XK1vjj22GNFkSYY2dhhWAQ_grsQOmP-kp/s1197/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1197" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWKQO7OnJXF5jGM5tOlqYBiUqFxai9SlC3N6jEnJzWUnnsbuko_kTkVhyen-H-_arDsQ95H6U1D7ed6qRF28u73Qt3NGyVAnT7VizPpfQlh4CfZT9WpKnnW40xg7gP6IfwjlwAMC_Fr32Pcyqdtd8XK1vjj22GNFkSYY2dhhWAQ_grsQOmP-kp/w640-h350/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>"From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charles River White Geese.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Report and photo</p><p>* * * *</p><p>Two whites were among the Canada geese on the Charles River. </p><p>They were off the gravelly area next to the observation deck.</p><p>That was a nice photo op. they came in close to the shore to see if I had any food for them and the sun was sparkling in the water so nicely around them.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3HhQ4BAXVjWAaeGyVM0PmlfYsdw6ex1sOsi92xRM1SCoi0NlxW01aCJHU-PHkrKq_Q42GjeptesJ0s3A0P9QMFfxZ4iZxFrTb32H4kGLpbMp2MpMQKgICUZC_eEbewr3un2wuCJ8enuLdwaw_bsmLrimmE2_ROa74Rs3lIBFoIgyY_Okb6vR/s750/02-13-24,%20CRWG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="750" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3HhQ4BAXVjWAaeGyVM0PmlfYsdw6ex1sOsi92xRM1SCoi0NlxW01aCJHU-PHkrKq_Q42GjeptesJ0s3A0P9QMFfxZ4iZxFrTb32H4kGLpbMp2MpMQKgICUZC_eEbewr3un2wuCJ8enuLdwaw_bsmLrimmE2_ROa74Rs3lIBFoIgyY_Okb6vR/w640-h358/02-13-24,%20CRWG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Location in the drone photo.</p><p>Starting at the left end of the BU Bridge, the open space below it is the environmentally responsible MWRA plant. The brownish color is probably out of season grass.</p><p>It is surrounded by trees. The next open area in the main parking lot for the Magazine Beach recreation area. Then there is a softball field which is part of the Magazine Beach playing fields..</p><p>During the outrages inflicted by Cambridge and the state bureaucrats, they walled off the Magazine Beach playing fields with a row of introduced bushes which were allowed to grow to heights exceeding 13 feet. They thus turned the playing fields into a situation where the playing fields might as well be ten miles from the Charles River. That wall, in 2008, commenced years of heartless abuse of the Charles River White Geese from their principal feeding area for most of their residence on the Charles River, the Magazine Beach playing fields.</p><p>In 2008, the two also introduced poisons onto the Magazine Beach playing fields with obvious problems for resident animals.</p><p>A lot of games have been inflicted on that opening, primarily as part of the continuing heartless abuse of the Charles River. A nonsensical pond was introduced. Over the pond was placed a bridge which was too weak and narrow to support vehicle which had transported boats to the Charles River at that location. That “bridge” thus was another barrier to boat use of the Charles River from Magazine Beach. This barrier was to boats larger than a canoe.</p><p>The Charles River White Geese loved the introduced pond, and used it, horrors, to get food from grass on either side of the parking lot. With the contempt of governmental entities for resident animals, that could not be allowed. So the pond was drained and converted into sloping wetlands and another wall of bushes was introduced between the introduced wetlands and the parking lot keeping the Charles River White Geese from that parking lot.</p><p>Most recently, the Cambridge City Council, in an essentially SECRET action, “improved” the opening by splattering gravel which would be offensive to web feet and putting in a new wall, an observation deck. The lie to explain this SECRET was that they were creating a canoe dock. Since they did not change the bizarre “bridge” which in reality was a wall for boat larger than canoes, they created nothing.</p><p>The photo was taken from the gravel area.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>BU Bridge Rotary..</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Photo.</p><p>In the drone photo, the BU Bridge Rotary is to the left of the BU Bridge.</p><p>The report:</p><p>* * * *</p><p>The picture shows two #47 buses bulling their way through the daily 4:30 traffic jam at the BU bridge rotary. The two together is so typical of how the T runs buses (and trains). One is late, so everyone jams on it when it finally arrives, then another appears right behind it after the first one is loaded and runs mostly empty. The schedule may call for a bus every 20 minutes but you get two with a 40 minute gap between, essentially. On the 47 route sometimes the driver won’t even stop to pick up people waiting at a stop, which is really bad for those who rely on the T to get in to work on time. Don’t know if this happens on other lines but I’ve seen and experienced this, as the 47 goes right down Pearl Street and I used to use it quite a bit. Quite a ride, though, for the price, long route all the way to Southie via Roxbury</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGB8TjKJBgUQNIsAYdiNg8maMuQvym41vz31hYwwbNEFUaP19zwrSqulMKNBWDh1HQtMRvlFRUooTt7KCD3XC1c5SwqXoGF3hl90Beg99Be_YrTXKEWMkmk7QcvQu2VzJwQhOvgWDNFK2WSwD0x7L8F3_Rlv2vmyNsG87HqmxHk_DVbtxvrKXX/s750/02-09-24%20Buses%20at%20BU%20Circle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="750" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGB8TjKJBgUQNIsAYdiNg8maMuQvym41vz31hYwwbNEFUaP19zwrSqulMKNBWDh1HQtMRvlFRUooTt7KCD3XC1c5SwqXoGF3hl90Beg99Be_YrTXKEWMkmk7QcvQu2VzJwQhOvgWDNFK2WSwD0x7L8F3_Rlv2vmyNsG87HqmxHk_DVbtxvrKXX/w640-h330/02-09-24%20Buses%20at%20BU%20Circle.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>* * * *</p><p>The near bus is approaching the BU Bridge Rotary from Brookline Street, Cambridge. Beyond the Yield sign is the other bus, going under Memorial Drive..</p><p>The Yield sign is for the BU Bridge Rotary. The ramp from the rotary to Memorial Drive Westbound can barely be seen beyond it. Memorial Drive is overhead. The buildings visible under Memorial Drive are on the far side of the Charles River, very certainly Boston University. Structures look closer than they are because of telephoto distortion.</p><p>* * * *</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Continued Thanks to Governor Healey.</p><p>Kitty Corner from the ramp in this picture is the entrance to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the, Charles River White Geese. Governor Healey arranged for that entrance to be reopened. All that can be seen from the blockage is one lone barrel. Governor Healey reopened this entrance to allow the 43 year resident Charles River White Geese to regain access to the luscious grass under Memorial Drive at that point. That much LESS heartless abuse by the Cambridge City Council and selected state bureaucrats.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZblluV55yVqrZz0n95dOysX8L8zXMzrkXiA4jDzmKRzT-97qUC-8QB-0_t1lmaWoejYeyBHTL0Rxp_D_yM310WGQfGAoFno_IRbjW0EZSswur9w9231dfNxM0ZljZ17SJVOLPkB6StbtLzpkcQpYBkaATnjgqN6G29FBU6HnvmwxDLVihhKK/s4624/01%20Entrance%20Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZblluV55yVqrZz0n95dOysX8L8zXMzrkXiA4jDzmKRzT-97qUC-8QB-0_t1lmaWoejYeyBHTL0Rxp_D_yM310WGQfGAoFno_IRbjW0EZSswur9w9231dfNxM0ZljZ17SJVOLPkB6StbtLzpkcQpYBkaATnjgqN6G29FBU6HnvmwxDLVihhKK/w640-h480/01%20Entrance%20Red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Continued Target of the Cambridge City Council and, maybe, state bureaucrats.</p><p>Walking up the ramp and crossing over the Grand Junction Railroad bridge, you come to the Wild Area. I have repeatedly presented a winter view of the Charles River White Geese swimming in the bay next to the Wild Area in the worst of winters. Here is a view from the BU Bridge, from about halfway across the bridge behind the above photo.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYERKYs8i7E574y61LSwoBjQVKzGzlTBqclnpJo4sTDxm45eZlBlX6aa-hCqWDvFgZMlVSlAOax3xq554gOHHTWldvdIYTC_yW8PzIv4n1abylP_RO61ejJVPlxoShdf5ltsFStD9ZlrTA4QUyjk-hS3vNeJZ5USX4tJQcbfMtC7KcCnxVD1g/s351/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="351" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxYERKYs8i7E574y61LSwoBjQVKzGzlTBqclnpJo4sTDxm45eZlBlX6aa-hCqWDvFgZMlVSlAOax3xq554gOHHTWldvdIYTC_yW8PzIv4n1abylP_RO61ejJVPlxoShdf5ltsFStD9ZlrTA4QUyjk-hS3vNeJZ5USX4tJQcbfMtC7KcCnxVD1g/w640-h362/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Memorial Drive can just barely be seen over the Grand Junction railroad. The trees on the left are the Destroyed Nesting area of the Charles River White Geese. Kitty corner across the DNA is the view in the immediately preceding photo. The most recent plans of the relevant state bureaucrats that I am aware of show exactly one tree in that area. My video at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a> goes into an extended analysis of these plans. The plans reported in the video resulted in the destruction of hundreds of trees on the Charles River running from the white Boston University building in this photo to the second bridge east of the BU Bridge, the Longfellow Bridge. This limit was a pleasant deletion. The Cambridge City Manager condemned int this video has, thankfully, retired.</p><p>Recent maneuvers have been telling. The state bureaucrats had plans to destroy on the Charles River starting with the Wild Area and going beyond. They lied that the eastern end of the plans was the BU Bridge, but proved that claim a lie in slides which included the Wild Area in their definition of “BU Bridge.” The bureaucrats backed of the part of the plans east of the River Street Bridge (1st bridge west of the BU Bridge), but an employee of the Cambridge City Council spoke in a public ZOOM meeting to regain this destruction. The bureaucrats gave somewhat of a concurrence, but seem to have backed off that, although their action certainly is telling.</p><p>Hopefully, Gov. Healey’s intervention will protect this area. I have fought these outrages since 1985 with success based on non DCR entities. Cambridge’s destructiveness does not cease, and it is impossible to tell exactly what is going on behind the scene.</p><p>The white shapes in front of the Wild Area is a flotilla of the Charles River White Geese hunting for what food has not been destroyed for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>D.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Information from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</p><p>The most useful graphics of this area that I am aware of appear in a report submitted by MIT to the Cambridge City Council in 2014.</p><p>Here is part of the presentation by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Cambridge City Council in 2014.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjubXwY7_OKR_WnM5ZqK-gF-u2_oYGs8qxWCOXRBIELTE7qxqg4JIK7CvmABq3pAOyLNwc6MSY0EazLWWFbb5Rd4_wrAumsl39aLnFJLk5O7NMXWib0Rhn-1IdGf3JBw6ALZCtMvBEKjF4XYMkDnz8UlphBf141Spvi9FLqSnNwasNuPuIEMeBc/s3300/14%20-%2012%20001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3300" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjubXwY7_OKR_WnM5ZqK-gF-u2_oYGs8qxWCOXRBIELTE7qxqg4JIK7CvmABq3pAOyLNwc6MSY0EazLWWFbb5Rd4_wrAumsl39aLnFJLk5O7NMXWib0Rhn-1IdGf3JBw6ALZCtMvBEKjF4XYMkDnz8UlphBf141Spvi9FLqSnNwasNuPuIEMeBc/w640-h494/14%20-%2012%20001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The photo in the bottom right is of the Grand Junction under that Memorial Drive Bridge, shown in the photo of the Wild Area above.. </p><p>Upper right is an overview of the area around the BU Bridge rotary. At the far left is the Memorial Drive Bridge over the Grand Junction. The top left graphics is a key map showing a broader area than the close up.</p><p>On the map, point 2 is very close to the location of the camera in the first photo above of the B.U. Bridge Rotary. The two lines left of point 2 show the traffic flow around the BU Bridge rotary. The further line is the area shown in that photo.</p><p>Here is a blowup of that plan:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxt7QtOqIW8ScUfvWWJ49ZAAmUICIapOPGuFaVynjlw-gSJX4J-cc5czNf1jtHOEKVnXXS7tKISnfBHj_pwRQLUKeJR75CSKPEAabC0oju7YmJ0J9CbMwSYr0MP8WHdhCW6PjyTDscaNWAS0LbZQfnR-GUHoB2M6igo8cnM5lrwwxtjHWGe8q/s1829/14%20-%20BU%20Bridge%20Options.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1829" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxt7QtOqIW8ScUfvWWJ49ZAAmUICIapOPGuFaVynjlw-gSJX4J-cc5czNf1jtHOEKVnXXS7tKISnfBHj_pwRQLUKeJR75CSKPEAabC0oju7YmJ0J9CbMwSYr0MP8WHdhCW6PjyTDscaNWAS0LbZQfnR-GUHoB2M6igo8cnM5lrwwxtjHWGe8q/w640-h328/14%20-%20BU%20Bridge%20Options.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Key in this area is the diagonal line with the 3 marking blue lines under it marked 1, the line connecting to the 2, and the curved line IN THE DESTROYED NESTING AREA marked 4.</p><p>Line 3 is supposedly a bike highway. It is a stalking horse for a private off ramp from Interstate I90, visible above the Charles River in the drone photo above and at the beginning of the next section. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Company in 2003 proposed that an exit be created from I90 for a nonsensical express bus route. Once proving it could be done, the MBTA “suddenly” discovered the expense could be justified for an express bus.</p><p>The proposed highway would connect to Memorial Drive heading east bound by destroying the Wild Area, and to Memorial Drive heading westbound by an off ramp running past the number 3 and connecting to the BU Bridge Rotary. Looking at the drone photo above and at the beginning of the next section, the big highway at the bottom of the photo is I90. There is a side road in I90 to the left of the BU Bridge, and the railroad can be seen going under the BU Bridge. The game proposed was to widen the railroad by cantilever construction and build ramps in two directions around that side road including the large unbuilt area on the opposite side of I90 to get connection to and from the west, i.e. the left, in the photo.</p><p>That stalking horse bike highway appears to have been funded. It supposedly will CONNECT to the mess at the BU Bridge Rotary shown in the above photo. “Suddenly” the “planners would discover the mess and say they have to connect to the I90 area described in the MBTA plans. ALL SORT OF GAMES have been tried by organized people in the planning for I90's rebuild. Naturally, after the smoke has clearly with bike highway and the RELATED widening of the railroad bridge, suddenly somebody will discover what a great off ramp that will make to MIT and MIT’s speculative development.</p><p>LAST I HEARD, MassDOT had rejected those games, BUT I HAVE BEEN OUT OF THE LOOP FOR YEARS.</p><p>The blue lines under the supposed bike highway are marked by the number 2. Near the upper right corner is the connection MIT proposed in this plan. MIT seems to be in the process of destroying that connection for another dormitory, with help of property maneuverings by the Cambridge City Council which were essentially secret.</p><p>Connecting to the bend in that blue road (Vassar Street) at the middle of the plan by a taking of a parking lot between the bend and the supposed bike highway will satisfy the “suddenly needed” connection for the bike highway. Review of the aerial photo above in the combined MIT page shows the viability. There is an open area parking lot under the bend which could be partially taken to put in platform parking to replace the parking lost.</p><p>The route marked 4 is MIT’s exposure of a highway in planning through the Destroyed Nesting Area.</p><p><br /></p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tree Destruction between the two overpasses.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The drone photo cropped to the overpass.</p><p>Here is the drone photo cropped to the overpass..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4iLmLotqHOfaKQ7nIizIxyyWqC07z9Nfli2nG7leex-Pbb9dFYPuKbE36vPLOB_WZRzoP7Gt8xSTLQz7RdcU8IZWjJz5DkjRiASLCAE5TvHVIrxJg-0tb1AyZuMsc6b_OmSn7gve4BV0yXMJiIdL0BOBXbNTq4R4SzKON8Ak4OfSJjO7gFDOo/s107/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff%20%20Crop%20to%20overpass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="107" data-original-width="102" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4iLmLotqHOfaKQ7nIizIxyyWqC07z9Nfli2nG7leex-Pbb9dFYPuKbE36vPLOB_WZRzoP7Gt8xSTLQz7RdcU8IZWjJz5DkjRiASLCAE5TvHVIrxJg-0tb1AyZuMsc6b_OmSn7gve4BV0yXMJiIdL0BOBXbNTq4R4SzKON8Ak4OfSJjO7gFDOo/w610-h640/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff%20%20Crop%20to%20overpass.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><br /><p>The overpass is the almost vertical line at the left. Morse School is to its right above Memorial Drive. The trees at the bottom are at the northwest corner of the Magazine beach playing fields.</p><p>Here is a tree destroyed from nature combining with neglect, photo with commentary. Apparent distances are confused by the lens used.</p><p>* * * * *</p><p>here's another photo of the stressed trees along the Drive (opposite the school) that just blew down in the past few days</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDl4nAfpdDHfg9tQKT1n7TW4srSjS3rA_Gie00cbWRuZbm8Vrun06oTtFqxnCFybqHh1fau27fqeDCND3niBWIfmaQaGHnmXsnD1MEvO8AhHikwKxrApaHwk3UzrPjyf8ro0byjxF4eUgeCtxin3ff_LcShw-WiQFtfDHTrvgHPvsijShPWu0A/s750/02-13-24,%20Stressed%20Tree%20Across%20from%20Morse%20School.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDl4nAfpdDHfg9tQKT1n7TW4srSjS3rA_Gie00cbWRuZbm8Vrun06oTtFqxnCFybqHh1fau27fqeDCND3niBWIfmaQaGHnmXsnD1MEvO8AhHikwKxrApaHwk3UzrPjyf8ro0byjxF4eUgeCtxin3ff_LcShw-WiQFtfDHTrvgHPvsijShPWu0A/w640-h360/02-13-24,%20Stressed%20Tree%20Across%20from%20Morse%20School.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>* * * *</p><p>The green figure to the left is the overpass. Straight ahead is, first, Memorial Drive, and then Cambridge’s Morse School, also shown in the blowup.</p><p><br /></p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our 50 page report.</p><p>Presented to the Cambridge City Council, Governor Healey and others. Cite is to the City Council records. This document is the basis for the clean up of the food access of the Charles River White Geese at the on ramp to Memorial Drive east from the BU Bridge Rotary. It also provides photos with more detail than have been possible in this report.</p><p><a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True</a>, Pages 2654 to 2713, Communication 177, City Council, 6/26/23.</p><p>Plus a very distressing list of horrors from Cambridge and state bureaucrats.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-83362923965477741902024-02-07T16:55:00.003-05:002024-02-07T17:00:28.982-05:00Update on recent Cambridge, MA / Charles River Photos<p> Update on recent Cambridge, MA / Charles River Photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Central Square Revisited</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Memorial Drive at Magazine Beach, box truck being “Storrowed”</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Central Square Revisited</p><p>I recently passed on a particular outrage in Central Square, Cambridge, business as usual in spite of environmental nonsense.</p><p>About 8 excellent Locust Trees were destroyed, probably to brag about the “replacements” while keeping the destruction silent. The number may include one or two different varieties outside the planters.</p><p>Officially, this location from which these excellent trees were destroyed is called “Carl Barron Plaza.” I understand that Wikipedia has “late 1980's” for the creation of the plaza, and thus for the planting of the Locust Trees.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGG0WiSepwLUh8yypBZuREoDbgqjHQoArZqW1y3h-sC47Z1L5tRuxKCvXDdHCRDrgIZ6tZ2GWmmTV4-xe8HqbySXR5LMrcyEOa4b25DtY8tIdLm9F9XLIoTiSH8McVBWqGLgZ5ZwsZa0Z5juw-iRj_H-WC2jg3KQyM26-OULKcqjD7uuE20Ftr/s750/01-04-24%2001%2020240103_142356_HDR%20Phil%20red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="750" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGG0WiSepwLUh8yypBZuREoDbgqjHQoArZqW1y3h-sC47Z1L5tRuxKCvXDdHCRDrgIZ6tZ2GWmmTV4-xe8HqbySXR5LMrcyEOa4b25DtY8tIdLm9F9XLIoTiSH8McVBWqGLgZ5ZwsZa0Z5juw-iRj_H-WC2jg3KQyM26-OULKcqjD7uuE20Ftr/w640-h424/01-04-24%2001%2020240103_142356_HDR%20Phil%20red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>We do not seem to have before pictures for the plaza more recently.. </p><p>We, however, have been provided the following two photos for Locust Trees planted in 1991 at 11-15 Green Street, east of Central Square and a block south in the notorious Simplex area acres of former industrial properties which MIT converted to a many acre wasteland for speculation. MIT did not evict anybody. They simply did not replace industrial tenants as tenants moved out, </p><p>In the first photo, the Locust Trees are on the right, in front of 11-15 Green Street.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPCqZTPkfr9x7GgJH9CxO8chQxyFRNEDYOB0P2l9SiUgZ9yZnvrAdsUZw4hdC7yYozCDHsEzwwi0w59Qd8LWyuNnY1Ll_f4AXbChbvW5YywqwUJReN64jwXMzUGNYg7dIbwAcxqZ8eywBDn3T0Wb4tnTkH7Gvl4ca0o7Hm6CzHIQKoaEnZ25G/s750/01-30-24%20Phil,%2011-15%20Green%20Street,%20planted%201991%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPCqZTPkfr9x7GgJH9CxO8chQxyFRNEDYOB0P2l9SiUgZ9yZnvrAdsUZw4hdC7yYozCDHsEzwwi0w59Qd8LWyuNnY1Ll_f4AXbChbvW5YywqwUJReN64jwXMzUGNYg7dIbwAcxqZ8eywBDn3T0Wb4tnTkH7Gvl4ca0o7Hm6CzHIQKoaEnZ25G/w640-h360/01-30-24%20Phil,%2011-15%20Green%20Street,%20planted%201991%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>A closer view from the opposite direction.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzbznFCTyA_qVnX4Rqo2iBg_cUBbkC33OswLaIp0LEZVrp_kcigFb5kchz9l0i6lj661c73rKzF3f6JJEeQ0Kp95KI_FaFRhYGb8IWNxm-ukWXwjxUvppsJP9eYHcspvtCvLhmVEx42_El6hA2ZACcpkcP2ujVBvM4LG15bMAVscFgVE1ktN0/s750/01-30-24%20Phil,%2011-15%20Green%20Street,%20planted%201991.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzzbznFCTyA_qVnX4Rqo2iBg_cUBbkC33OswLaIp0LEZVrp_kcigFb5kchz9l0i6lj661c73rKzF3f6JJEeQ0Kp95KI_FaFRhYGb8IWNxm-ukWXwjxUvppsJP9eYHcspvtCvLhmVEx42_El6hA2ZACcpkcP2ujVBvM4LG15bMAVscFgVE1ktN0/w640-h360/01-30-24%20Phil,%2011-15%20Green%20Street,%20planted%201991.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Memorial Drive at Magazine Beach, box truck being “Storrowed”</p><p>The Boston media are particularly fond of reporting box trucks being “Storrowed,” trying to drive on the Boston boulevard following the Charles River, Storrow Drive. They are warned of low bridges and keep on driving with fully predictable results, thus "Storrowed."</p><p>Magazine Beach has its own access bridge running over Cambridge’s Charles River boulevard, Memorial Drive. This bridge was rebuilt with a whole bunch of games. One thing that I thought was a lie was the height warning. I figured the rebuilding had been intended to be higher and that a warning sign was a lie to fool Cambridge residents into thinking the blockage continued.</p><p>My guess appears to have been wrong. Here is a box truck Storrowed at the Magazine Beach overpass.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkv2k0TPC7MgK_Kd-CzT9CxTlt0pgtXyuPsTkcBeJccZ8xFSElAjiONJj2-2faSn7sWvxnXzBp_eBezAuEjp5PGKlUEdDrER6uPhYQVvWwjy_M_0bW2h1JlTvKZtvyrN1EFdDizM-5NGWkuy7shWjx_yFCe19JzTxaIQRsTKXmuaILM40jlIw/s750/01-26-23,%20ca,%20truck%20being%20Storrowed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqkv2k0TPC7MgK_Kd-CzT9CxTlt0pgtXyuPsTkcBeJccZ8xFSElAjiONJj2-2faSn7sWvxnXzBp_eBezAuEjp5PGKlUEdDrER6uPhYQVvWwjy_M_0bW2h1JlTvKZtvyrN1EFdDizM-5NGWkuy7shWjx_yFCe19JzTxaIQRsTKXmuaILM40jlIw/w640-h360/01-26-23,%20ca,%20truck%20being%20Storrowed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here is the drone photo I have used to place things at Magazine Beach. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHZVROkmgpqiNoBPeDJCTJYVEDMhirqnkGpXXPsXtcFBU3wDkBVnz03Td48j5P7GrP441Gcr5iVwgFpx1qFXTA1YSwGTav4QuWZTzEh0VWslczJXX12bkcT8Yp0njSCOlt66ltykrUF4Uqj15PQIzRwTRdrk25o85iFpJbXcFUlxiHy6r0Dd0/s1197/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1197" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsHZVROkmgpqiNoBPeDJCTJYVEDMhirqnkGpXXPsXtcFBU3wDkBVnz03Td48j5P7GrP441Gcr5iVwgFpx1qFXTA1YSwGTav4QuWZTzEh0VWslczJXX12bkcT8Yp0njSCOlt66ltykrUF4Uqj15PQIzRwTRdrk25o85iFpJbXcFUlxiHy6r0Dd0/w640-h350/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The Destroyed Nesting Area of the 43 year resident Charles River White Geese is just beyond the BU Bridge on the Cambridge Side of the Charles River. In the middle is the Magazine Beach playing fields on which the Charles River White Geese fed for most of their residence, until the heartless City of Cambridge and state bureaucrats introduced poisons and created the Starvation Wall which separated the playing fields so that they might as well be ten miles from the Charles River.</p><p>The bridge where the truck is being “Storrowed” is barely visible to the far left, slightly below the middle. This still is taken from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a></p><p>Here is a blow up. The overpass is the almost vertical white line at the far left. Below it is the Magazine Beach playing fields. Apparently to its right is Cambridge’s Morse School, an elementary school.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGyIAxHlf9-oNkJXMOPLw_OUQ1SwkRfApzlVRkRLukw0TkB3OO7pyX0ral1KPNiHsBeHKHlPhhjMeOB3PIYYTZVu25i2FMnMBfV7faEl31yleM1NAE9Wu4OysqkDI9zor2Ch0TmjtjNHbJtfWLjydKnmsuP1JlJZsiH4oVZf6ZzaWBAIgVThV/s107/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff%20%20Crop%20to%20overpass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="107" data-original-width="102" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUGyIAxHlf9-oNkJXMOPLw_OUQ1SwkRfApzlVRkRLukw0TkB3OO7pyX0ral1KPNiHsBeHKHlPhhjMeOB3PIYYTZVu25i2FMnMBfV7faEl31yleM1NAE9Wu4OysqkDI9zor2Ch0TmjtjNHbJtfWLjydKnmsuP1JlJZsiH4oVZf6ZzaWBAIgVThV/w610-h640/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff%20%20Crop%20to%20overpass.jpg" width="610" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-28678732307944597012024-01-27T12:01:00.008-05:002024-01-29T11:44:55.284-05:00Winter on the Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA<p> RE:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Winter on the Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Magazine Beach this week.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Misleading self-praise from Cambridge.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The con.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PART OF the reality.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Drone View.</p><div><br /></div><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Magazine Beach this week.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have received the following photos and comments from the Charles River:</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A crew replaced a broken water pipe (goes to fire hydrant, I believe) on Magazine Beach today, most unusual sight</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHRobVer0Ntg_798wo9ncif4Ln91pXENgRo-mtkwuIcyvInMtR7hjJZ4foAX6ub4tmPd1N8krLgAm1mUgIiLduT5FZo5_5RwSRDCVEap9dshzBskkKOf9lnQNSX94Vm7FFxUCmONeaheoqCbzeLRAPySWQ-zZWt06MX0Vrqt_8RMclCXynZPb/s750/01-23-24%20Water%20Pipe%20being%20replaced.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHRobVer0Ntg_798wo9ncif4Ln91pXENgRo-mtkwuIcyvInMtR7hjJZ4foAX6ub4tmPd1N8krLgAm1mUgIiLduT5FZo5_5RwSRDCVEap9dshzBskkKOf9lnQNSX94Vm7FFxUCmONeaheoqCbzeLRAPySWQ-zZWt06MX0Vrqt_8RMclCXynZPb/w640-h360/01-23-24%20Water%20Pipe%20being%20replaced.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Ed: This is the grove of large trees at the eastern end of the Magazine Beach recreation area. The Destroyed Nesting Area is a few hundred feet to the right. The brick structure running horizontally beyond the grove is the Memorial Drive overpass which is connected to the BU Bridge by a ramp system on either side of the bridge and the BU Bridge Rotary under the bridge. The food mentioned in the next section of this report is below Memorial Drive just beyond the BU Bridge rotary. Covered by snow to the right of the grove is the primary parking area for Magazine Beach. The grey shape is a car going from the parking area to the nearest ramp. In section 3 I provide a drone overview of the area.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I interrupted this fine fellow today (a juvenile Cooper's Hawk) hunting a bunny bigger than himself. He gave me the eye for a while, trying to decide if I might be tasty too.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmUQCNlml42w35yQ5xe5QtZ4nGu7iwuaVzGdDYFIJlsekJbwVs122YkYyEAU6csUG1pOW1Cau6dIa422VMHyflKI3E1cMEk9ZqH1tL3aNdaj3NbiFBDq7r084A2lhzHNyOMXgLGYuBI6j8W0zgxnPgL2kFmLyZRKS46HBjTvK-6-CiJFGsY47r/s750/01-23-24%20Coopers%20Hawk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="507" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmUQCNlml42w35yQ5xe5QtZ4nGu7iwuaVzGdDYFIJlsekJbwVs122YkYyEAU6csUG1pOW1Cau6dIa422VMHyflKI3E1cMEk9ZqH1tL3aNdaj3NbiFBDq7r084A2lhzHNyOMXgLGYuBI6j8W0zgxnPgL2kFmLyZRKS46HBjTvK-6-CiJFGsY47r/w432-h640/01-23-24%20Coopers%20Hawk.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Misleading self-praise from Cambridge.</p><p><br /></p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The con.</p><p>A city magazine for its voters includes the traditional level con on the environment..</p><p>Self-praise was heavily present for its planting of trees.</p><p>This is a continuing con game. The City Manager's name is on the magazine. Clearly it would have been written by the destructive Development Department.</p><p>For years, Cambridge bragged about being a Tree City USA.</p><p>The con was and continues to be:</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The usual environmental bragging is about class patronage for contractors.</p><p>They are bragging about all the trees they are planting.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The usual DEADLY environmental destruction is kept silent, class patronage for contractors.</p><p>Cambridge keeps as secret as possible the continuing, outrageous destruction of the environment, which looks like class patronage for contractors in the opposite direction. </p><p>While bragging about paying contractors for saplings, they have long kept as secret as possible the unnecessary destruction of the environment primarily with benefit for contractors, at the same time as outrageous destruction, planting saplings to “replace” mature trees which should not have been destroyed in the first place.</p><p>The next step in the destruction will, of course, be “new trees,” WITHOUT mentioning the destruction.</p><p>This con is a dominant factor is the outrages on the Charles River.</p><p><br /></p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PART OF the reality.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Here is my 29 minute video / slide show on the outrageous destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. </p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Here is my CONCISE summary of outrages I have lived through on the Charles River, including very prominently PART of the heartless abuse of the 43 year resident tourist attraction, the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>From the official records of the Cambridge City Council: <a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True</a>, pages 2654 to 2713, City Council communication 177, City Council Meeting, 6/26/23.</p><p>The real benefit from this summary is that I gave a copy to Governor Healey who through a representative gave me a name at the Department of Conservation and Recreation to whom to provide the report. That person, would appear to have undone part of the outrages, as stated in detail below.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My report to the Cambridge City Council on the ongoing and increasing destruction of 60 to 65 mostly excellent trees and animal habitat at Magazine Beach on the Charles River.</p><p><a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/charles-river-state-destruction-plans.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/charles-river-state-destruction-plans.html</a>. Blog version, 12/16/2018, Re-submittal to Cambridge City Council, December 17, 2018.</p><p>The City Council has proceeded to play games as secretly as possible, through bizarre SECRET votes on the banks of the Charles River which included “public” review by burying the actions among a large, very varied collection of programs.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My recent report on a reversal of PART of the heartless abuse of the 43 year resident tourist attraction, the Charles River White Geese, thank to intercession by Massachusetts Governor Healey. 12/24/23, following up on the large condensed report of destruction cited above.</p><p><a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/deluge-on-charles-river-extreme-cold.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/deluge-on-charles-river-extreme-cold.html</a>.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My report on Cambridge’s destruction of the excellent grove of trees which adorned Cambridge Central Square. 1/5/24.</p><p><a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/update-on-recent-cambridge-ma-usa.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/update-on-recent-cambridge-ma-usa.html</a>. </p><p>Coming up, they will, as usual, brag about the “replacements” of these mature trees.<br /><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Drone View.</p><p>We have published a lot of drone photos of the world of the Charles River White Geese, under attack by destructive bureaucrats at the state level and by the environmentally destructive City of Cambridge.</p><p>Our source is “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>.</p><p>Here is a good drone overview taken from the Boston side of the Charles River, above Harvard’s coming Allston Village campus in planning..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4rZa8rHj_9ai7wB-nd2kK6NSrCNDgqNIt0YJQaZCiF6tvCT055iJhyHnpmrzOuARA_qtrzOVyO_8kwvJH_diWvAAFXVSoLhNtlfWgGR1s2UCy_47c3rxfaTH4n8FCohzTen8ojXcFKIwNp3jWaqLVmjnNXxlzycQYr1TveEUp0KQIWONEhl-9/s1197/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1197" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4rZa8rHj_9ai7wB-nd2kK6NSrCNDgqNIt0YJQaZCiF6tvCT055iJhyHnpmrzOuARA_qtrzOVyO_8kwvJH_diWvAAFXVSoLhNtlfWgGR1s2UCy_47c3rxfaTH4n8FCohzTen8ojXcFKIwNp3jWaqLVmjnNXxlzycQYr1TveEUp0KQIWONEhl-9/w640-h350/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The larger area beyond the Charles River is the Magazine Beach playing fields. This area was the principal habitat of the 43 year resident Charles White Geese until state bureaucrats and the environmental vile City of Cambridge started their destruction, including heartless starvation of these beautiful and valued birds.</p><p>Note the GREEN EDGE of the Magazine Beach playing fields. This is the Starvation Wall imposed on the Charles River White Geese which is hated by people who love the Charles River and who want to visit it. ON THE BANKS OF THE CHARLES RIVER, the Starvation Wall made the playing fields as remote from the Charles River as if it were ten miles away. More importantly from the point of view of these irresponsible government entities, the Starvation Wall keeps the Charles River White Geese from their food for most of the last 43 years, food which these terrible ;people started poisoning in 2008, after it had been pristine for the better part of a century.</p><p>The baseball field in the middle of the picture is just below the grove in the above picture. To its right is an environmentally responsible sewage treatment plant of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. The MWRA brought the distant ancestors of the Charles River White Geese to the Charles River to sound the alarm against trespassers after the MWRA’s guard dogs passed away.</p><p>Just beyond the MWRA plant is the BU Bridge, the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and the Wild Area. </p><p>The Wild Area has been under attack by Cambridge and its apologists since at least 1986, a few years after the first arrival of the Charles River White Geese. <br /><br />The Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and the Wild Area are the last remaining havens of nature in this part of the Charles River. They are the thick woods just beyond the BU Bridge. Memorial Drive is just beyond. I have been fighting to protect these areas since 1986, with major success as pointed out in the 50 page summary to which Governor Healey has impressively responded. </p><p>Under Memorial Drive just beyond where the BU Bridge reaches Memorial Drive is the vestige of food which Governor Healey has returned to the Charles River White Geese.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-86425701666218537922024-01-05T11:19:00.003-05:002024-01-05T11:27:42.553-05:00Update on recent Cambridge, MA, USA, environmental activity.<p> Update on recent Cambridge, MA, USA, environmental activity.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Technical Correction and related.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Follow Up.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Recent view of former excellence.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Technical Correction and related.</p><p>At the end of the report I added:</p><p>“CAMBRIDGE just destroyed ‘eight fine healthy locus trees’ in the heart of Central Square,”</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>Planning for destruction, of course, was also with the DCR.</p><p>And the Cambridge City Council keeps up its bizarre claims of environmental sainthood.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Follow Up.</p><p>I have gotten the following comment:</p><p>* * * * *</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>* * * *</p><p><br /></p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Recent view of former excellence.</p><p>Wednesday, I passed by the destroyed excellence in Central Square.</p><p>Here are two photos I took as an update:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMAEAn0q-eSM3Y30ZQAf0rgzlJfiwKZSO7WGw49nKfd1pLiqbUGrkRbUAro2ptqwru6IhgtZM9RBR-Wkii7MUuwSO2OCNHq-T1HdPxImkED7NoM1rtHBnERtCkR94wf9B5hHYJ2dT6VWo4cQwX88tlcgmw4nH0QDM3PP3ViWrpFs9Ja_uMalF/s750/01-04-24%2001%2020240103_142356_HDR%20Phil%20red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="750" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMAEAn0q-eSM3Y30ZQAf0rgzlJfiwKZSO7WGw49nKfd1pLiqbUGrkRbUAro2ptqwru6IhgtZM9RBR-Wkii7MUuwSO2OCNHq-T1HdPxImkED7NoM1rtHBnERtCkR94wf9B5hHYJ2dT6VWo4cQwX88tlcgmw4nH0QDM3PP3ViWrpFs9Ja_uMalF/w640-h424/01-04-24%2001%2020240103_142356_HDR%20Phil%20red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7pY7C0He7a3d-noDenK_LVqWw7G5gUZSHgrPYxl_m_19Iyyy8W3EInqod_xTav5Jf1K8gF9PTLab70guexLkRPl5OrLW-Ee_IpjAXNd6572haGeSFogEzqHy_zuRcl8nlFcrCxSOi7pNN6i0oqstwN60_i9RjwLHb1RODU_-W1MkvLgZHor5y/s4624/01-04-24%2001%2020240103_142356_HDR%20red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><br /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4d-CijH8DHT93bH2gnOCwDeKR3EG74Qg2EeIbNVQyQIKYxyuCkVrjO-mZA7Gb6gtpHK6GUUxKgjfzpB_8NoFJopEYzfnbEf21fGnGT8hS-FF06at68vLs-ZbDbNbCAbfCR-XImvi_ZN2o8Ky-kJ7Z7t9M7h5EpnJ4e9KFAKboT_H3w7OJ0dN/s4624/01-04-24%2002%2020240103_142323_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4d-CijH8DHT93bH2gnOCwDeKR3EG74Qg2EeIbNVQyQIKYxyuCkVrjO-mZA7Gb6gtpHK6GUUxKgjfzpB_8NoFJopEYzfnbEf21fGnGT8hS-FF06at68vLs-ZbDbNbCAbfCR-XImvi_ZN2o8Ky-kJ7Z7t9M7h5EpnJ4e9KFAKboT_H3w7OJ0dN/w640-h480/01-04-24%2002%2020240103_142323_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-21402947073047655012023-12-24T21:17:00.001-05:002023-12-24T21:17:22.333-05:00Deluge on the Charles River, extreme cold, and thanks to Gov. Healey.<p>Deluge on the Charles River, extreme cold, and thanks to Gov. Healey.</p><p><br />1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Charles River White Geese in Winter.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bad weather protection.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Charles River White Geese on Thursday.</p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sickness as Usual in Cambridge.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thank you Governor Healey.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sources.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Destruction of hundreds of trees outrage by DCR and Cambridge between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Letter received by Governor Healey.</p><p><br />1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction.</p><p>On Thursday, I visited the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>The Charles River White Geese had gone from the second heaviest deluge in history to a very cold day.</p><p>I only saw about half the geese I expected. So I anticipate the rest were on the river looking for food, and taking advantage of the warmer temperature of water.</p><p>I was very pleased on entering the DNA to see a great improvement at the entrance, for which I thank Governor Healey.</p><p><br />2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Charles River White Geese in Winter.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bad weather protection.</p><p>Last weekend, we had the second largest deluge ever. Flooding occurred in sensitive rivers, but I was not seriously concerned about the Charles River White Geese. They have a bay near their nesting area which is well protected to which they go during extreme conditions. It is below the Wild Area on the far side of the Grand Junction railroad THIS LOCATION IS NOW SUBJECT TO THREATS BY THE DCR / CAMBRIDGE.</p><p>When it is extremely cold, in particular, there are many Canadas in the DNA (Destroyed Nesting Area) and no Charles River White Geese. The Charles River White Geese are in the nearby bay. Here is a photo from years past. The Massachusetts Dept. of Cons. & Rec.’s plans show one tree NOT BEING DESTROYED in the Wild Area, through which this photo was taken.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8q_5chWdOmURwBG8TnoT14V5js4tTsbuO-OL928cGRU5vLiu9JxHTa9Obyw1KnQyN17PZYKuHz81IAduR7JrsrSa9MZ7t-wK2XUHSTxwir6rbX-CU3jsGSg7zU1vOe56D3XNttlyZITiuKSztVDwJx8ZaI1a8k2Uld5RjvGkxL04LpcWsOE4/s960/IMG_0478.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8q_5chWdOmURwBG8TnoT14V5js4tTsbuO-OL928cGRU5vLiu9JxHTa9Obyw1KnQyN17PZYKuHz81IAduR7JrsrSa9MZ7t-wK2XUHSTxwir6rbX-CU3jsGSg7zU1vOe56D3XNttlyZITiuKSztVDwJx8ZaI1a8k2Uld5RjvGkxL04LpcWsOE4/w640-h480/IMG_0478.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Charles River White Geese on Thursday.</p><p>The remaining portion of the gaggle were under large trees near the water on the BU Bridge side of the DNA. In the background is the Grand Junction railroad bridge and the hill in the DNA supporting the tracks.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8F3ChNNHwLx0hyphenhyphenudKWkai-4Yjc2lMYqnhCspxiZusYQDeCXvlcFVUFqbcHE03eo2JiVxWquTvVhNB3mPwCQQ8Mzd0ipJlMOI7bF2ZknS-LuHJO5lwImSDLabVkG65UCTebgcAwC-OFcQX54d6uFXcyLhtLgLHWgC6E99DSkkZnrEAWylhQbXc/s4624/02%20red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8F3ChNNHwLx0hyphenhyphenudKWkai-4Yjc2lMYqnhCspxiZusYQDeCXvlcFVUFqbcHE03eo2JiVxWquTvVhNB3mPwCQQ8Mzd0ipJlMOI7bF2ZknS-LuHJO5lwImSDLabVkG65UCTebgcAwC-OFcQX54d6uFXcyLhtLgLHWgC6E99DSkkZnrEAWylhQbXc/w640-h480/02%20red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The Geese with large black spots are descendants of either Toulouse Geese who were dumped at Magazine Beach in 2006 or so, or White Geese with vestigial markings. In either case, the offspring from mating with the rest of the gaggle frequently have these combination markings.</p><p>Brown Beauty, a female goose, stands out in my memory. A daughter of the assassinated leader of the gaggle, Bumpy, she was hatched before 2000, 1996 stands out in my mind for some reason. There has been a male that I am aware of since then with vestigial markings as well.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCSWyykj23wYswLbX0ivfSbf4DxUUcYXdZUgillqZGKd2WtwJSAWR4PORbWmRxh0teRPQBidIV6D2Dje8gl7SanEObIQVe47b_VJ-CvvDgNr6LylspVw8u78a4NbuQsmssMI-NERoowF4IfSPanUGhBuwlMF_m5dI4DL9WyLXHC6P6GnJ_g5z/s4624/03%20red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCSWyykj23wYswLbX0ivfSbf4DxUUcYXdZUgillqZGKd2WtwJSAWR4PORbWmRxh0teRPQBidIV6D2Dje8gl7SanEObIQVe47b_VJ-CvvDgNr6LylspVw8u78a4NbuQsmssMI-NERoowF4IfSPanUGhBuwlMF_m5dI4DL9WyLXHC6P6GnJ_g5z/w640-h480/03%20red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The bare ground has commonly been created by nuts working in support of the DCR with a shared contempt for ground vegetation.</p><p>Here is a view in the other direction showing the very close BU Bridge.</p><p>During repairs on the BU Bridge in 2010 or so, a strip of about 50 feet was needed for repair access.</p><p>And here is a view standing away. This small area is a rare area which has not seen destruction by the DCR / its friends,</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDr60A7Yp7qdP7vI7WOoUo95pmyaYG9y4riCLNjB3R82OH4dyjiKWmaNqMR2psXpRbBpFdfeX1qrBMV_hI-OwcbBVyT1nAg6Q_kv4WvGZqL8VPgI2AMTTd-8tv_KHgBFxlHjISCzDUT2RWWGrJzGT0CUAAdZM8wyw0XyNcb0Jn0D4JqLZ3Lf5/s4624/05%20red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeDr60A7Yp7qdP7vI7WOoUo95pmyaYG9y4riCLNjB3R82OH4dyjiKWmaNqMR2psXpRbBpFdfeX1qrBMV_hI-OwcbBVyT1nAg6Q_kv4WvGZqL8VPgI2AMTTd-8tv_KHgBFxlHjISCzDUT2RWWGrJzGT0CUAAdZM8wyw0XyNcb0Jn0D4JqLZ3Lf5/w640-h480/05%20red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sickness as Usual in Cambridge.</p><p>As part of the sick situation in Cambridge, CAMBRIDGE just destroyed ”eight fine healthy locus trees” in the heart of Central Square, and, as on the Charles, lies of environmental sainthood are normal from the Cambridge City Council.</p><p>The pols create “plans” which CAREFULLY EXEMPT WHAT THEY WANT DESTROYED. I do not know if the bureaucrats bothered with the supposed “protections.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Citizen “reviews” commonly amount to sales pitches.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cambridge has received multiple “Tree City USA” Awards. The applications brag of plantings BUT KEEP SECRET THE EXCELLENT TREES NEEDLESSLY DESTROYED that the bragged about plantings are “replacing.” </p><p>Central Square is business as usual. </p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thank you Governor Healey.</p><p>I was pleased to see the entrance to the DNA in the corner next to the BU Bridge and its rotary under Memorial Drive.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUWoEoAvAqkwJzEk3rk1pgSAbw8LL2Uru_Oo0RDaBEOeFLpVt-XV-zkO0e37lKVgzFE4BGNls5Q5kjuiAVezbUvRKJs-sepv0dI4apYXUYfde88ftqPlKaJATFoMG49TKFvNihBU5DY_RTEiYvTtUbJvwSiOBa_AFcsy73CYXOmBBa7xopBaq/s4624/01%20Entrance%20Red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUWoEoAvAqkwJzEk3rk1pgSAbw8LL2Uru_Oo0RDaBEOeFLpVt-XV-zkO0e37lKVgzFE4BGNls5Q5kjuiAVezbUvRKJs-sepv0dI4apYXUYfde88ftqPlKaJATFoMG49TKFvNihBU5DY_RTEiYvTtUbJvwSiOBa_AFcsy73CYXOmBBa7xopBaq/w640-h480/01%20Entrance%20Red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I complained of the starvation blockade of this entrance at pages 34 and 35 of the letter the governor received. The nesting area is to the right. Almost all food has been destroyed in the nesting area. The luscious, LAST REMAINING FOOD is straight ahead.</p><p>Straight ahead is the ramp from the BU Bridge to Memorial Drive heading east. The Charles River White Geese CAREFULLY stand on the sidewalk straight ahead and wait for traffic to clear before carefully crossing. Drivers who come along sit and wait with smiles for the geese to get to their food.</p><p>Here are photos from the past. The DCR learned, horrors, that the Charles River White Geese were actually getting food in spite of their starvation attempts.</p><p>Here are two photos. The obstacles are placed fully blocking transit. People move them to get in. The ability to get food varies with the amount of moving done by the public.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikt1FliWwbjjR0cHfPlQiiExztIlyUoPd8LrydeXTKlQGY1WOn_VafRp3ZDih8vpH6rw_2PAOMOL4iqKk7QpNiaQw_oBASvrdUz58lXpZt_0D8i_qo0ldQ6O2PRSaeppxqcxyYoeNgAYzQu614XtZAbnmYKryD12LrqvrtUKcTRcFWK5kf3EaK/s4160/0515201457c%20Red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="4160" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikt1FliWwbjjR0cHfPlQiiExztIlyUoPd8LrydeXTKlQGY1WOn_VafRp3ZDih8vpH6rw_2PAOMOL4iqKk7QpNiaQw_oBASvrdUz58lXpZt_0D8i_qo0ldQ6O2PRSaeppxqcxyYoeNgAYzQu614XtZAbnmYKryD12LrqvrtUKcTRcFWK5kf3EaK/w640-h360/0515201457c%20Red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAiDQ_0WlSpoQONd6PAfK1MMdrC_y1bzH2sVo44HFfuwhC-YKmx-h_3QbP_ElMG3prt2uJVyyPsQ6vqRKMLKy5P3fqIA83JOxedxDxxAjKKKcR0on2OPd-A0R4C0IMCvea_OQpAUdP2MC0b3QqeUiYakFfPWdRMgUT0rD-rFrRYltpHQlzoKKE/s640/img_2466%20Still.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAiDQ_0WlSpoQONd6PAfK1MMdrC_y1bzH2sVo44HFfuwhC-YKmx-h_3QbP_ElMG3prt2uJVyyPsQ6vqRKMLKy5P3fqIA83JOxedxDxxAjKKKcR0on2OPd-A0R4C0IMCvea_OQpAUdP2MC0b3QqeUiYakFfPWdRMgUT0rD-rFrRYltpHQlzoKKE/w640-h480/img_2466%20Still.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Hopefully, the entrance will remain unobstructed.</p><p><br /></p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Destruction of hundreds of trees outrage by DCR and Cambridge between the BU and Longfellow Bridges.</p><p>Video, “Memorial Drive Destruction, Final Cut,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Letter received by Governor Healey.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True</a></p><p>Pages 2654 to 2713, Communication 177, City Council, 6/26/23.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the direction of Governor Healey’s representative, electronic masters of this document were provided to a person at the DCR. Those electronic masters are available and will be provided to interested folks. </p><p>A caveat, this is 50 pages very heavily filled with photos. The files are large and require multiple sendings. Files originally attempted to be provided in accordance with Governor Healey’s wishes had to be further split to get into the state computers. Contract us at <a href="mailto:boblat@yahoo.com">boblat@yahoo.com</a>.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-40765381245820945552023-11-03T20:51:00.005-05:002023-11-03T21:01:20.270-05:00Historical fraud from Massachusetts Institute of Technology continued. Historical “improvement” FLAT OUT LIE.<p> Historical fraud from Massachusetts Institute of Technology continued. Historical “improvement” FLAT OUT LIE.</p><p>Continuing the “historical" outrage from MIT IN WORSE DETAIL.</p><p>Here are two more photos from the same shoot.</p><p>It turns out that the Mass. Ave. Side is also totally gutted.</p><p>First, straight in from the Grand Junction.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizwlECMnSA9Xw6OjfaTkJlacPYhisUEU6xy6B1_72enuWc_Xy9x1EruOClG9_mZ_otEP0Rtd8hHAdmRD3AdTgTZarsH0UvsbmysOeDQOgdgNFhl0b4gSu_nVo-oWH6hPRxjij2z6G2NJm0Ylw9YB-mT5x9oBPchPC3lDoXnJzwX5fpP8-0LnBl/s3374/17%20GJ%20Red%20Further%2020231015_135625_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2383" data-original-width="3374" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizwlECMnSA9Xw6OjfaTkJlacPYhisUEU6xy6B1_72enuWc_Xy9x1EruOClG9_mZ_otEP0Rtd8hHAdmRD3AdTgTZarsH0UvsbmysOeDQOgdgNFhl0b4gSu_nVo-oWH6hPRxjij2z6G2NJm0Ylw9YB-mT5x9oBPchPC3lDoXnJzwX5fpP8-0LnBl/w640-h452/17%20GJ%20Red%20Further%2020231015_135625_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Then turning the camera to the left and showing the gutting behind the Mass. Ave. frontage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieivmIondBOq9MorR46ejJCEvtWfhHqPPZL55IOkj__UBUTfKJwZXh7GJTFdqlWYxrqguxxehbvFmP47asDn_lsaAb9D_JZqc3dauXm4Heb3iVWwejJDGBjyeEIN1zUC1k5vlBkDhNcibXhOpKdoQGhMY6qAsSa9rPuswKDe0_w_FMIevoQJyD/s429/GJ,%20Mass%20-%20GJ%20inside%20JPEG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="429" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieivmIondBOq9MorR46ejJCEvtWfhHqPPZL55IOkj__UBUTfKJwZXh7GJTFdqlWYxrqguxxehbvFmP47asDn_lsaAb9D_JZqc3dauXm4Heb3iVWwejJDGBjyeEIN1zUC1k5vlBkDhNcibXhOpKdoQGhMY6qAsSa9rPuswKDe0_w_FMIevoQJyD/w640-h418/GJ,%20Mass%20-%20GJ%20inside%20JPEG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-16268483291563496182023-10-22T11:09:00.019-05:002023-10-25T18:48:49.691-05:00MIT’s lovely promises for “renovation” of historical building translate as sugar coated DESTRUCTION, AS USUAL.<p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MIT’s “Explanation.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge’s Most Recent “Explanation” Compared to Reality.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction</p><div>MIT’s lovely promises for “renovation” of historical building translate as sugar coated DESTRUCTION, AS USUAL.</div><p>I have done two posts on this outrage. It is highly relevant to the Charles River White Geese because this outrage WITHOUT THE DESTRUCTION is perhaps the emblem of a bike path which is the front for and which is part of the ongoing efforts to destroy on the Charles River.</p><p>And this DESTRUCTIVE REALITY IS TOO MUCH THE REALITY WITH SO MUCH OF THE USUAL LOVELY CLAIMS FROM WHOMEVER CONCERNING THE CHARLES, ITS WATER, ITS VEGETATION AND ITS ANIMALS.<br /><br />My first report is posted at: <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mit-destroying-historical-storage.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mit-destroying-historical-storage.html</a>. </p><p>My “preliminary” follow up with damning photos is at <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mits-renovation-of-historical-warehouse.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mits-renovation-of-historical-warehouse.html</a>.</p><p>The problem is that the “preliminary” follow up does a pretty good job of reporting the outrage. I could go further, but going further would be massive work in processing a LOT OF PHOTOS, and could also evolve into ongoing reports, and that definitely is not the purpose of this blog.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MIT’s “Explanation.</p><div>I have promised to provide MIT’s “explanation.” So here it is, first with a screen shot, then with the gory details. Note the image credits at the end apply as well to the MIT photos in the “preliminary” report. My credit has been to MIT. MIT's credit is more accurate. Both photos are provided, fair use like this report, in my “preliminary” report.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCj92ISb6qomHcqHuvUkNuBhbydM7TPkrT7mpflm7mHuKAmNWo4IxYB2Rri1bF_HXQxSZrHe1Mu8Qzmv_ELXQj7ToH9rSsCOY_hgb5DbKqXF7ONXUJdq-0Q6FZLMYxUucj4zhEqqN95vkE5BDMAZmEszSsFuEsDDes_P1nAompf2LSrA2hrfB/s1366/Page%20layout%20JPEG%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSCj92ISb6qomHcqHuvUkNuBhbydM7TPkrT7mpflm7mHuKAmNWo4IxYB2Rri1bF_HXQxSZrHe1Mu8Qzmv_ELXQj7ToH9rSsCOY_hgb5DbKqXF7ONXUJdq-0Q6FZLMYxUucj4zhEqqN95vkE5BDMAZmEszSsFuEsDDes_P1nAompf2LSrA2hrfB/w640-h360/Page%20layout%20JPEG%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>* * * *</p><p>Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, Building </p><p>W41</p><p>MIT is renovating the Metropolitan Warehouse to create a vibrant interdisciplinary hub for design and education and to house the School of Architecture and Planning, a new makerspace for Project Manus, and the new MIT Morningside Academy for Design.</p><p><br /></p><p>STATUS</p><p>In constructionr</p><p>COMPLETION DATE</p><p>2025</p><p>THEMES AND PRIORITIES</p><p>Innovation and collaboration</p><p>Renovation and renewal</p><p>Enhancement of life and learning</p><p>Designed by Frederic Pope (first section) and Peabody & Stearns (subsequent additions), the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse — one of the oldest buildings in the neighborhood — was originally constructed in 1895. The building is listed on the State Register of Historic Places and has been determined eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. With its square brick tower and crenellated corbelled cornice, it resembles a medieval castle on a city street corner.</p><p>MIT’s adaptive reuse of the Metropolitan Warehouse building will redevelop it as a center of interdisciplinary design research and education, providing a new home for the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P). The building will also house the new MIT Morningside Academy for Design, which aims to foster collaboration and innovation on campus, encouraging design work to grow across disciplines. In addition, the building's flagship Project Manus makerspace will serve as a substantial addition to the MIT Makersystem and will expand the design and fabrication facilities available to the campus. As a whole, the reimagined Met Warehouse will include new classrooms, design studio space that will significantly increase MIT’s capacity for arts and design programming, new faculty offices, and areas for meetings and collaborative activities.</p><p>The adaptive reuse of the structure will endeavor to preserve the building’s historic character while leveraging and valorizing its existing spaces and infrastructure to serve the needs of current and future programming. A critical design element is the introduction of new floor “platforms” to provide necessary high-bay program space and to allow natural light to penetrate core building areas. The strategic integration of old and new will enhance interdisciplinary interactions between SA+P and other schools at MIT while providing space for an auditorium and other possible ground-floor amenities.</p><p>“The renovation of the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse is intended to generate new opportunities for research, teaching, and innovation at the Institute,” says Provost Martin A. Schmidt. “I look forward to seeing faculty and students, across many disciplines, use the new space to push their fields into the future.”</p><p>IMAGE CREDITS</p><p>Melody Craven and Monica Lee<br /><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge’s Most Recent “Explanation” Compared to Reality.</p><p>The original publication of this post was October 22, 2023, a week ago.</p><p>In working on the condensed version of this report for publication on Face book and Email Publication, I have obtained the Cambridge Development Department PROMISE of what is being done to this building in relation to the lovely “Grand Junction Path” promises.</p><p>Here is the presentation at their June 22, 2022 meeting, taken from the Cambridge, MA on line presentation.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioj4Mo7u5eRYQWPS0SBEJvDzZ55KHuFurBO502oyoHF4tGJ8kmjUh5IY0WN_qILDXSXpWUfMnwhLGEvqJ3nIEkKk_uKF-skMHDVUx3Y3tLH0idn-Kif4aYi0I2HkczX31SEcxu_WqNzqSoz9W2qn71dvSwzBLYgqZVotxsTqJh13ldJSG3eypZ/s1218/06-22-23%20CDD%20Presentation%20JPG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="1218" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioj4Mo7u5eRYQWPS0SBEJvDzZ55KHuFurBO502oyoHF4tGJ8kmjUh5IY0WN_qILDXSXpWUfMnwhLGEvqJ3nIEkKk_uKF-skMHDVUx3Y3tLH0idn-Kif4aYi0I2HkczX31SEcxu_WqNzqSoz9W2qn71dvSwzBLYgqZVotxsTqJh13ldJSG3eypZ/w640-h324/06-22-23%20CDD%20Presentation%20JPG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Cropped to the "protected" historical building.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpi8CgTbCWRqltON_W10tvYscABJkGxu5wDaxQibCqR62gu_2X1C8tYQMkp_oY7Ak7pKrpAE5lOghh4qisC6vlQeo2Ux2mLZYuEz3YBeBRMcn2k-NEUcsZJ2af-WKd3jzCMY6cx1wd3AMEdahagBxTfiSQtJ5-wkpqC3wA5O9D8WcnaLpG4Vx/s613/06-22-23%20CDD%20Presentation%20Crop%20JPG.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="613" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZpi8CgTbCWRqltON_W10tvYscABJkGxu5wDaxQibCqR62gu_2X1C8tYQMkp_oY7Ak7pKrpAE5lOghh4qisC6vlQeo2Ux2mLZYuEz3YBeBRMcn2k-NEUcsZJ2af-WKd3jzCMY6cx1wd3AMEdahagBxTfiSQtJ5-wkpqC3wA5O9D8WcnaLpG4Vx/w640-h476/06-22-23%20CDD%20Presentation%20Crop%20JPG.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>In this picture, the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese is, for all practical purposes, straight ahead.</p><p>Here is our photo from a week ago.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREHDP279CIPaQCEVZn1PMRB59g4sO9WFbc7vGWszTJ1DXccQ2tA3klhYW1Yo4qnKeKU7pQ2z1huP9MKuP6f18l18Sk7jol7hiTbJfM3pnvSSxujffm_LVna16k65hVBrYu8i8tCIOgpcpKQSf9635RsSPZoMplrRnXrGAN57Kj0ukOtGq_6OM/s4624/06%20GJ%20Decrease%2020231015_140609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREHDP279CIPaQCEVZn1PMRB59g4sO9WFbc7vGWszTJ1DXccQ2tA3klhYW1Yo4qnKeKU7pQ2z1huP9MKuP6f18l18Sk7jol7hiTbJfM3pnvSSxujffm_LVna16k65hVBrYu8i8tCIOgpcpKQSf9635RsSPZoMplrRnXrGAN57Kj0ukOtGq_6OM/w640-h480/06%20GJ%20Decrease%2020231015_140609.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>As usual in Cambridge, a dramatic difference between what was promised and this reality a week ago.</p><p>WITH MORE TO COME.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-78152880913157502982023-10-16T14:19:00.005-05:002023-10-16T14:38:26.723-05:00 MIT’s “renovation” of Historical Warehouse<p>This is a preliminary report.</p><p>The collection of photos I created yesterday, October 15, 2023, is massive. It will take quite a bit of time to process them. However, as I have started this project, it is clear that some major issues are blatant. So here goes.</p><p>Years ago, as part of its empire building, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology purchased a historical warehouse on the South Side of Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA, between Vassar Street and the Grand Junction Railroad. We have reported on a “multi-use” path going by it. The warehouse has featured prominently in the publicity for this nonsensical highway.</p><p>MIT has constantly promised to preserve this historical building. We have made copies of those promises from MIT’s website. Those details will be provided when I can process the massive number of photos I took.</p><p>MIT has started bringing reality to the warehouse and to the “usual types” who run around Cambridge bragging about reality being somewhere close to the nonsense commonly splattered about development in Cambridge.</p><p>Here are the ONLY photos on the website which we have found. The description of MIT will be provided verbatim in our coming report.</p><p>Here is the Vassar Street side:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM8NRTEygkZx2Un2omenDtWR1KGak8ZTK1e8b5obTySYW7nv1aDmP3GEDcrhdFb7EbBasp35uHkvC5VfRo8lL5xRY6XiNm_J7bx9-0Xh0oyIzto_mR8CZPvbIjmb_YNH5wR9OmAlxJb-ORklwhRhdNVL1KUG-e8DDnz_rV4DajWVkjkZeqyqZf/s540/MIT%20Warehouse%20Vassar%20Red%20008684_CPcrop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="540" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM8NRTEygkZx2Un2omenDtWR1KGak8ZTK1e8b5obTySYW7nv1aDmP3GEDcrhdFb7EbBasp35uHkvC5VfRo8lL5xRY6XiNm_J7bx9-0Xh0oyIzto_mR8CZPvbIjmb_YNH5wR9OmAlxJb-ORklwhRhdNVL1KUG-e8DDnz_rV4DajWVkjkZeqyqZf/w640-h412/MIT%20Warehouse%20Vassar%20Red%20008684_CPcrop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p>Here is the Massachusetts Avenue Side:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiTRUOb-uWlt_J_pSewGSanZmt1tGrc-tQcNHmN2wIMAXYwFYqvLhPkYu_XZJHbByS_MvUpeNIXBZR8EkwYjuymoXbW2VoBO0pjmina7fPBh1i8W2nI7dNut9QrUL8hOz8WpDFY_t4jOFmoDpENKYr0imdlrRkjUliNnsQs_sU7FmFGtKupyo/s540/MIT%20Warehouse%20Mass.%20Red%20m%20%202018-0601%20M%20Lee%20-%2036.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="540" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiTRUOb-uWlt_J_pSewGSanZmt1tGrc-tQcNHmN2wIMAXYwFYqvLhPkYu_XZJHbByS_MvUpeNIXBZR8EkwYjuymoXbW2VoBO0pjmina7fPBh1i8W2nI7dNut9QrUL8hOz8WpDFY_t4jOFmoDpENKYr0imdlrRkjUliNnsQs_sU7FmFGtKupyo/w640-h412/MIT%20Warehouse%20Mass.%20Red%20m%20%202018-0601%20M%20Lee%20-%2036.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>This photo is taken from my October 15, 2023 photos. This is the Grand Junction side viewed from Mass. Ave.</p><p>Not at all surprising when you are dealing the fraud in the communication of development in the City of Cambridge, MIT keeps secret its side facing the Grand Junction. Because of the DELIBERATE secrecy, we are forced to improvise. The Grand Junction side was close to identical to the Vassar Street side.</p><p>Here is ONE of our many photographs of the Grand Junction side on Sunday, October 15, 2023:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSo1nFByuNM93qAtw56VnFRwo2RejJTkCEqIGRCDQIKTpWqo6dHgTYgkJymYy7q_k0yVyYoqpYBoQGUg5WxNbsJY4M4gDCOesSH91SKx_Aytn38tf1jD7BMPp70dreEFUpzk6Sn1t1FUww-b-6ufqilJVXeYuS1kO06mIITrbvww203e7SI4t/s4624/06%20GJ%20Decrease%2020231015_140609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSo1nFByuNM93qAtw56VnFRwo2RejJTkCEqIGRCDQIKTpWqo6dHgTYgkJymYy7q_k0yVyYoqpYBoQGUg5WxNbsJY4M4gDCOesSH91SKx_Aytn38tf1jD7BMPp70dreEFUpzk6Sn1t1FUww-b-6ufqilJVXeYuS1kO06mIITrbvww203e7SI4t/w640-h480/06%20GJ%20Decrease%2020231015_140609.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Note the PARTIAL MESSAGE SHOWING. The full message remains on the Vassar Street side, above.</p><p>MIT claims to be renovating.</p><p>This photo was taken from Massachusetts Avenue on the Grand Junction side of the building.</p><p>Running from the left, first is shown a partial view of the REMAINING Mass. Ave. Frontage. Then you have the undestroyed portion of the Grand Junction frontage. The next “building” facing the Grand Junction railroad has the remnant of the sign which is still whole on the Vassar Street side. </p><p>Look to the left of the frontage. There you will see an interior wall of this created subbuilding. Look a little bit to the left and you will see THE INNER PART OF A FALSE FRONT remaining facing Vassar Street. The other side of the false front fits MIT’s rendition of the Building it is “saving.”</p><p>Here is a view of Mass. Ave. front taken from the opposite side of Mass. Ave. on October 15, 2023:</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD0p92tPF6GLWRGxTe0x4m72T16JsBawvsdYbHeLwZFNKV4PmS3TPKQYdmSsZMxNh1m3fFzbYqKHSA6ticfC3rT5PUzPPEpNZ66_ifjY_4j7jmMTxu1ltSzdT2-dZxnxovTSeCkKtWlsZNhpQ43qwg52_ARPKy9q4dSITIKHLiJkEyRaMcTue5/s4624/09%20Mass.%20Decrease%2020231015_140435.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD0p92tPF6GLWRGxTe0x4m72T16JsBawvsdYbHeLwZFNKV4PmS3TPKQYdmSsZMxNh1m3fFzbYqKHSA6ticfC3rT5PUzPPEpNZ66_ifjY_4j7jmMTxu1ltSzdT2-dZxnxovTSeCkKtWlsZNhpQ43qwg52_ARPKy9q4dSITIKHLiJkEyRaMcTue5/w640-h480/09%20Mass.%20Decrease%2020231015_140435.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>NOTE THE HOLE AT THE TOP OF THE FRONTAGE. That is the destruction facing Mass. Ave. as of October 15, 2023. On the right, you can see the Grand Junction and the Grand Junction frontage.</p><p>Here are one true gem in Harvard Square of which Cambridge environmentally reprehensible City Council voted to encourage destruction. The Cambridge City Council has a 200 page guidebook to the politically correct way to destroy Harvard Square. Any and all planned destruction will be decided by a body selected with major input by the bureaucrats. This is the same bureaucracy which from 1991 or 1992 to 2012, AT MINIMUM LIED that an alternate route to putting the “Inner Belt” subway through the Wild Area and up the Grand Junction next to this building DID NOT EXIST.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YzUsIpTPH4U0Ocgk-kxu9vmzWyS9ctkbHLOgUgYO6bphUlDwbqxYg6ot6v5LVd6qPDs_tHy6YuYcMp4l21oCrhfisRoAJRRAMXzsCcQJ0Q-PECSKP-5FMsvb521hr10nDQ_v3XI_mM10TzGs1IslMspKBMe_rjgImQ5XR9gg5xnd_evoC1bV/s960/IMG_2802.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-YzUsIpTPH4U0Ocgk-kxu9vmzWyS9ctkbHLOgUgYO6bphUlDwbqxYg6ot6v5LVd6qPDs_tHy6YuYcMp4l21oCrhfisRoAJRRAMXzsCcQJ0Q-PECSKP-5FMsvb521hr10nDQ_v3XI_mM10TzGs1IslMspKBMe_rjgImQ5XR9gg5xnd_evoC1bV/w640-h480/IMG_2802.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The kind of people who get appointed by that bureaucracy tend to look at this excellence, SNIFF and say “next case.”</p><p>A key part of the LIE that Kenmore Crossing did not exist in “inner belt” plans was the need to move Landsdowne Station on the Commuter Rail line from near Fenway Park to one block from the core of the Boston University campus, at Mountfort and St. Mary’s. The core part of Boston University is on the opposite end of the BU Bridge from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJRswLz14EJDJBTZhiOpDyq_eOh1ops_cN0UNoo6bMQ1vhR_2KuYiRUCMjxlOc8E_UvxKlU2xQIeVKyfZup6DykGyFYbaVvDzZbH1SUFgWUUURmvX2kkrGMYxMDVw4lhSxJBXzSDy__ol1rKf_b852HDI5AQuwpO7IYvzAV2NORNHU8X33Yjuc/s2448/IMG_0228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJRswLz14EJDJBTZhiOpDyq_eOh1ops_cN0UNoo6bMQ1vhR_2KuYiRUCMjxlOc8E_UvxKlU2xQIeVKyfZup6DykGyFYbaVvDzZbH1SUFgWUUURmvX2kkrGMYxMDVw4lhSxJBXzSDy__ol1rKf_b852HDI5AQuwpO7IYvzAV2NORNHU8X33Yjuc/w640-h640/IMG_0228.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Landsdowne Station survives as part of a four building complex across from Fenway Park (2 up, 2 approved). The developer was decidedly shocked when I told the developer of Cambridge’s plans. Very quickly, as these things go, the state rebuilt Landsdowne Station to full station standard. Now it is under this massive new building which is very visible from Fenway Park. Lies are normal in Cambridge, MA. Boston University has major holdings beyond the Beacon Street Bridge, in the distance. The station is under the building to the left. This station is not going anywhere.</p><p>But Cambridge, MA, has a terrible City Council which is doing all it can to create outrages.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-82579388978653794182023-10-12T14:46:00.009-05:002023-10-22T10:34:00.847-05:00 MIT Destroying historical storage building which it promised to save.<p>Report from Robert J. La Trémouille</p><p>IN PROCESS NOW.</p><p>The historical WAREHOUSE storage building now owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and located on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge between Vassar Street and the Grand Junction Railroad Tracts WHICH HAS BEEN PROMISED TO BE SAVED BY MIT is in the process of demolition.</p><p>This was observed by me about 1:30 pm, October 12, 2023 from the #1 bus traveling toward Boston.</p><p>Demolition is ongoing on the top floors facing the Grand Junction railroad.<br /><br />SUPPLEMENT: This post is getting a lot of hits. The follow up post with photos is getting less. Please see <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mits-renovation-of-historical">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mits-renovation-of-historical</a>-warehouse.html for gory details. I have a lot of photos, but it is also a lot of work. This may wind up as the DEFINITIVE post.</p><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-36862250225509976312023-10-08T17:25:00.007-05:002023-10-09T14:11:45.853-05:00 Charles River White Geese: Fire next door to the Destroyed Nesting Area<p> Charles River White Geese: Fire next door to the Destroyed Nesting Area</p><p>Here is a photo taken from the website of WBZ TV Boston. WBZ TV was reporting a fire on the opposite side of the BU Bridge from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>The report is that of a fire reported to be in a homeless encampment. The situation, obviously, is yet another result of the extreme lack of fitness of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to be charged with the maintenance of properties on the Charles River in Boston and Cambridge.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKonmgzyT6vD3dOUfG5ZTKaN_jLryRwNQQUo-u8fcvoMUF4JdkyQ9CnXMvKkDMFOe2F7zlrUFPF07_JBQPWL-OnNLInzJ2uwFoaB-tWCnFRHJAHmXuo512bimJDbBkcvbkm-eMlUWESQ-_nCUBDfr1PyDyfUDUwe-HzLgBUM51rxv-DQF4L2x9/s648/10-08-23%20MWRA%20Fire,%20WBZ%20Cropping%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="606" data-original-width="648" height="598" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKonmgzyT6vD3dOUfG5ZTKaN_jLryRwNQQUo-u8fcvoMUF4JdkyQ9CnXMvKkDMFOe2F7zlrUFPF07_JBQPWL-OnNLInzJ2uwFoaB-tWCnFRHJAHmXuo512bimJDbBkcvbkm-eMlUWESQ-_nCUBDfr1PyDyfUDUwe-HzLgBUM51rxv-DQF4L2x9/w640-h598/10-08-23%20MWRA%20Fire,%20WBZ%20Cropping%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The view is from a point a little bit north of the Cambridge city line on the BU Bridge.</p><p>The building at the right is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology building which is separated from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese by Memorial Drive and the on ramp to Memorial Drive from the BU Bridge. The DNA is approximately to the right of the car which is visible.</p><p>The thick smoke is obviously from a landscaped strip managed by the DCR located between the BU Bridge and the sensitively designed pollution control plant of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. The row of trees on the left abut the plant.</p><p>I walked around this area on Thursday. The area I saw, consistent with the belligerent incompetence of the DCR, was a mess. A fire is not at all surprising. Not that long ago, a contractor working for the DCR created a public health emergency in the Charles River by rerouting poisons dumped on Magazine Beach by the DCR and Cambridge into the Charles River, creating an algae infestation. The DCR has inflicted decades of heartless abuse of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese. The DCR with Cambridge assistance has destroyed more than 150 commonly excellent trees between the BU Bridge and Longfellow Bridge on the Charles River. The DCR and Cambridge are in the middle of destroying another 60 commonly excellent trees at Magazine Beach.</p><p>The DCR is belligerently unfit to be charged with state properties on the Charles River. I have recently gone into detail of its record (including a predecessor entity). That analysis may be seen in Cambridge, MA records at: <a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True</a>, pages 2654 to 2713. It can be difficult to wander through the Cambridge records. At the request of Governor Healey’s Assistant Secretary for the Environment, I have recently provided the off line masters for this document to an official at the DCR. I would be pleased to provide the off line files to people so requesting at <a href="mailto:boblat@yahoo.com">boblat@yahoo.com</a>. There are an extremely large number of graphics in this report. I have subdivided the files into workable size. It is feasible to transmit them at your request.</p><p>The Charles River White Geese should be safe from this outrage. The unfit DCR, however, keeps on creating outrages.</p><p>My solution of the DCR problem is to replace the DCR on the Charles River with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation which also is responsible on the Charles River but has different responsibilities. MassDOT is not perfect, but on shared responsibilities, MassDOT looks like the adult in the room with the DCR and Cambridge.</p><p>I encourage anybody who is concerned with the environment to communicate to Governor Healey. It is a waste of time to attempt to deal with the belligerently destructive Cambridge City Council. However nominal communications could be of value. The Cambridge City Manager is relatively new and could be of help. City Council candidates other than two with records on the Charles River are also possible people to communicate with. Among other problems, one of the new candidates did the poisoning of the Charles as documented in our DCR report.</p><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-47578221215191572682023-10-06T12:26:00.003-05:002023-10-08T10:39:53.655-05:00 More destruction DECEPTIVELY proposed for the Charles River.<p> More destruction DECEPTIVELY proposed for the Charles River.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Plans.</p><p>A,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Governing plans.</p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DCR regeneration.</p><p>D.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MIT Lecturer.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reality.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another fake protective group has reared it misleading head.</p><p>An entity which claimed to be the “BU Bridge Safety Alliance” held a presentation on Thursday, October 5, 2023, announcing ideas which would be “better for all.”</p><p>It turned out to be an Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecturer indulging in a teaching session with his class with glorification galore, and minimal understanding of local history and lack of concern about environmental impacts.</p><p>I saw one student express concern about harm to existing trees. He was sloughed off. At another point, I raised plans IN THE IMPLEMENTATION STAGE to make the situation worse from what passes for planners in Cambridge. The instructor was uninterested.</p><p>Included in the group was a Cambridge City Council staffer who has conveyed the City Council’s destructive ideas to the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation. The City Council ideas communicated distress that the DCR had apparently backed off from the most irresponsible plans of the DCR. The City Council’s destructive ideas comported with one truly irresponsible idea of the MIT lecturer. The City Council euphemism is “sidewalk improvements” although the lecturer hid this destructive part of his proposal as much as possible while claiming to be communicating it. </p><p>The staffer is running for City Council. A more destructive “activist” is among his opposition among City Council candidates. She created an algae blight which poisoned the Charles River AS PAID CONTRACTOR FOR THE DCR. That does not make either one of them less of a problem than the City Council and its bureaucrats.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Plans.</p><p><br /></p><p>A,<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>Below is the DCR’s plans for the most irresponsible part of the MIT lecturer’s ideas. Of importance, MIT supported the January 2016 destruction. From MIT’s point of view, it “benefitted” from that outrage. </p><p>This part of the plans was not implemented in the 2016 outrage. In the 2016 outrage the DCR with Cambridge assistance destroyed more than 150 trees near the Charles River between the BU and Longfellow Bridges, including too many truly excellent trees. Our video on that package may be viewed at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. </p><p>The instructor’s ideas, obscured as much as possible, and shared by Cambridge’s environmentally destructive City Council, were rejected in 2016. They resurfaced through fraud in the latest round of plans, and apparently were given up on in favor of less destructive ideas. BUT THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL IS TRYING.</p><p>From Cambridge records, here is my recent summary of the continuing outrages most visibly by the DCR, with have included Cambridge bureaucracy and City Council support, with Cambridge’s usual fake protective groups assisting: <a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True</a>, pages 2654 to 2713. This analysis goes back more than twenty years, although the Charles River White Geese have had their habitat on the Charles River in this area for more than 42 years. </p><p>I, at the direction of the governor’s people, have passed master computer files for that document to an office of the DCR. I would be pleased to pass these master files on to you as well. Please contact me at boblat@yahoo.com. I had to split files without deletion of component parts to make the file size of the master files accepted by the state’s computer.</p><p><br /></p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Governing plans.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the plans apparently being resurrected by the MIT lecturer which the DCR gave up on in January 2016 and which the Cambridge City Council seems to be trying to revive, along with this MIT lecturer. The key part of the plans are difficult to read. I have tried to make them less hidden through lighting modifications. It is extremely difficult to use the plans.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmCDJQfeXkPHuta5fNyY5_NjlkMpbIOUX376HBCz2DkLxch1SgreCTVOKIhFuYKXw0OJI675mUq42sdIomX8O5QihXagfpU55n2hi99m4tS5a9J_lvCh26jlvbxCTWfJYKMKilmywpEfb8zjLZnvkmZaB8SU3g8Hp6ENDBJmdRhrPz3Ftozxyx/s6600/H4009,%20Mem%20Drive%20Destr%20Red%20002%20%20Lighting%20mods.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5100" data-original-width="6600" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmCDJQfeXkPHuta5fNyY5_NjlkMpbIOUX376HBCz2DkLxch1SgreCTVOKIhFuYKXw0OJI675mUq42sdIomX8O5QihXagfpU55n2hi99m4tS5a9J_lvCh26jlvbxCTWfJYKMKilmywpEfb8zjLZnvkmZaB8SU3g8Hp6ENDBJmdRhrPz3Ftozxyx/w640-h494/H4009,%20Mem%20Drive%20Destr%20Red%20002%20%20Lighting%20mods.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The actual plans were drawn by a predecessor organization which the legislature tried to destroy to protect the world from its destructiveness. The “planners” moved to the DCR and have proceeded with the outrages. I will not waste people’s times by making what, in reality, HAS BEEN MADE a silly distinction between the two entities.</p><p>Memorial Drive, the boulevard on the Cambridge side of the Charles River runs right to left starting at the upper left and curving to the upper right.</p><p>Below it is the area in very destructive play, the on ramp from the BU Bridge to Memorial Drive. Running at a slight angle from bottom to top in the middle of the plan is the Grand Junction Railroad. To its left below the ramp is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. To the right is the Wild Area, the last remaining animal populated woods in this part of the Charles River. </p><p>The DCR demonstrates the vileness of the entire batch of plans by the circle numbered “535” toward the lower right. This is the ONE tree the batch of destroyers do not seem to be fighting to destroy. To the left of the Grand Junction are other trees targeted. The blackened one, marked “541" is the gem of the BU Bridge Rotary in this area, and the gem of this part of the Destroyed Nesting Area. It would be casually destroyed AS SECRETLY AS POSSIBLE </p><p>The latest round of attacks was delayed by the COVID nightmare. The DCR lied that its plans ended at the BU Bridge. </p><p><br /></p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DCR regeneration.</p><p>Here is one of several essentially duplicate slides from the DCR presentation of the earliest version of its current proposal.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5-W-1YCPSyaTxnSYdfricfNyQ6XBeHU8400h6_dkvSabUlI_TcxJkz8UbpwM8cN_kGAepwlK8k46hy_QlFTv_bCHMN5ARY7XgQeGf-nrGabVTAZuUTKx42YjIw1c6GuQPRd2UhlEWMHpkb49PPvc2QHXAiphKW0EjAchKiangd9Lk0zQeueZ/s1366/Animal%20Habitat%20Destr%20Nr%201.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5-W-1YCPSyaTxnSYdfricfNyQ6XBeHU8400h6_dkvSabUlI_TcxJkz8UbpwM8cN_kGAepwlK8k46hy_QlFTv_bCHMN5ARY7XgQeGf-nrGabVTAZuUTKx42YjIw1c6GuQPRd2UhlEWMHpkb49PPvc2QHXAiphKW0EjAchKiangd9Lk0zQeueZ/w640-h360/Animal%20Habitat%20Destr%20Nr%201.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The key lie at that time was that the DCR said its plans eastern boundary was the BU Bridge. Crossing this plan is Memorial Drive. Running below Memorial Drive is the BU Bridge, the supposed eastern end. The lie is demonstrated by the fact that the plans go beyond the BU Bridge to the right. The area to the right is the area that the DCR did not destroy in January 2016, and which the Cambridge City Council through that staffer, and this MIT lecturer are currently attacking.</p><p>The DCR has backed off on this part of their plans, ending the current offensive at the next bridge to the west, the River Street Bridge. The Cambridge City Council, through that staffer has implored the DCR to do “sidewalk improvements” east of the BU Bridge. The “sidewalk improvements” are the stuff shown in the above plan, with the MIT lecturer including as misleadingly as possible in his presentation.</p><p><br /></p><p>D.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MIT Lecturer.</p><p>The MIT Lecturer had two handouts in his show and tell, one for the Cambridge Side of the BU Bridge, the other (mismarked “Cambridge”) for the Boston Side.</p><p>Here is a blow up of the relevant part of the MIT lecturer’s plans. Dominating the photo from bottom to top, is the BU Bridge. To the right is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjwrRv1sTWvzlXKp3DT_iUw5iR-9mPFBZUD9rIGpTOto5Q3097EexwkaqR7zsZ0VJgEzJul0Ii1-2gyZm-7elw9hF8RfilNuNy6dAWWGW7ifpkWKaAH7zW2N9AlOwOWageDxEdsgyB-2PQELmZ0Z5giursONzEuDaOHgRpr-JZ8idGvjNFvwq5/s1643/10-05-23%20Cambridge%20Side,%20Larger%20Blowup.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1643" data-original-width="1477" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjwrRv1sTWvzlXKp3DT_iUw5iR-9mPFBZUD9rIGpTOto5Q3097EexwkaqR7zsZ0VJgEzJul0Ii1-2gyZm-7elw9hF8RfilNuNy6dAWWGW7ifpkWKaAH7zW2N9AlOwOWageDxEdsgyB-2PQELmZ0Z5giursONzEuDaOHgRpr-JZ8idGvjNFvwq5/w576-h640/10-05-23%20Cambridge%20Side,%20Larger%20Blowup.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><br /><p>At the top is Memorial Drive, below it on the right is the on ramp from the BU Bridge to Memorial Drive, the northern edge of the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. The edge to the right IS NOT EDITED BY ME. THIS IS AS FAR AS HE WENT TO THE RIGHT. </p><p>The number 3 gives the impression that it indicates the totality of his plans. His comments extended the plans, if you listened close enough, to the outrage continually showing up from the DCR and the Cambridge City Council in spite of lovely and, in that key DCR announcement, FRAUDULENT comments to the contrary.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Reality.</p><p>Here is the wild area which would be destroyed. To its left is the Grand Junction Railroad, and a tiny part of the DNA. The building to the right is a boathouse owned by Boston University.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIv8joJWiPDv9K46FSP9x64nYDU49LDJjET7kELopbYkcbiCKJJWW5smpO2LlA_ye3rLTDHvdIah1DsyaXu2_lcyxLLpeXzduTGeI5xpf74IdKCpd9YFXfihtfmPWlqPDnFUVWQg8fIRnemUglp6Yd9LyfhXpG4PLq1obCKutxYsV1gHr-gJGP/s351/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="351" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIv8joJWiPDv9K46FSP9x64nYDU49LDJjET7kELopbYkcbiCKJJWW5smpO2LlA_ye3rLTDHvdIah1DsyaXu2_lcyxLLpeXzduTGeI5xpf74IdKCpd9YFXfihtfmPWlqPDnFUVWQg8fIRnemUglp6Yd9LyfhXpG4PLq1obCKutxYsV1gHr-gJGP/w640-h362/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>DCR work projects commonly have harm to the Charles River White Geese. The DCR has explained its continuing outrages by saying it only has a duty to refrain from harming animals on a Federal protected list.</p><div>And here is tree 541, NEVER MENTIONED, BUT ALWAYS TARGETED along with a lot of other destruction in the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. Photo was taken from the DNA.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjYWKGUx204bJaxNjl37HblVaJdvR7i54Ki7jUulnmW1WkcEvEBgAeBtiZASm_UtuaZs387XFp38yZRHh081846etMlxfJlzmRGFwCs7_k6xo4gQgeD4rsT_z079Y7fMqs5Ip7ZiWFErhTok_laW6SXr9GWa_CbVHNPCIKaZz62iKqVob5IsGQ/s960/IMG_2479,%20the%20BIG%20ONE%20DOOMED.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjYWKGUx204bJaxNjl37HblVaJdvR7i54Ki7jUulnmW1WkcEvEBgAeBtiZASm_UtuaZs387XFp38yZRHh081846etMlxfJlzmRGFwCs7_k6xo4gQgeD4rsT_z079Y7fMqs5Ip7ZiWFErhTok_laW6SXr9GWa_CbVHNPCIKaZz62iKqVob5IsGQ/w480-h640/IMG_2479,%20the%20BIG%20ONE%20DOOMED.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>It is now much larger. In the background is Memorial Drive and a building currently owned by MIT, the employer of the lecturer who is the creator of these latest plans.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-57111281899983360862023-07-22T10:29:00.004-05:002023-07-22T10:37:36.173-05:00Report on Charles River outrages, transmittal to Cambridge City Manager.<p>Report on Charles River outrages, transmittal to Cambridge City Manager.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>City Manager letter, part 1.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Background.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>City Manager letter, part 2.</p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Harvard University’s Coming Allston Village Campus.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction</p><p>For my last report, I gave the index to our detailed letter to a whole bunch of government entities including outrages upon outrages which the Cambridge and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation have inflicted on the Charles River because the outrages have been so massive that the letter itself was a large compilation of the unforgivable.</p><p>The complete publication of the communication is on line at <a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True</a>, pages 2654 to 2713. Our report did provide the index. The index is posted at <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/charles-river-report-published-index.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/charles-river-report-published-index.html</a>.</p><p>I did, however, did provide a good transmittal to the new Cambridge City Manager. It may be of value, but I still recommend looking at the original. The graphics are so massive that I broke the file into many word processing files to address my application getting overloaded in my computer.</p><p>Here are a few key photos about the area under attack.</p><p>The Eastern area under attack, From “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>, minute 09:28. The drone photos are centered on Magazine Beach.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMOZQH_7CyfVQUeXHF35kcLunAT7lRjfTNN4JThk4_xTWo2-NK9xzXMwgKZQ3OyxJ9AvKXUcKwCb2BUmLiA1VawVq4GIepyhSFpSnjUcqwFOcXuDo5UHwbgwkGa8ZFnWtrXNE_sROSTf1IBvrlcvN8i8foM0pPImFINHJLngWBgvCh6UPSXsI/s247/09-28%20GJ%20straight%20up%20to%20MIT,%20closer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="247" data-original-width="238" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMOZQH_7CyfVQUeXHF35kcLunAT7lRjfTNN4JThk4_xTWo2-NK9xzXMwgKZQ3OyxJ9AvKXUcKwCb2BUmLiA1VawVq4GIepyhSFpSnjUcqwFOcXuDo5UHwbgwkGa8ZFnWtrXNE_sROSTf1IBvrlcvN8i8foM0pPImFINHJLngWBgvCh6UPSXsI/w617-h640/09-28%20GJ%20straight%20up%20to%20MIT,%20closer.jpg" width="617" /></a></div><br /><p>From minute 5:38 cropped, Cambridge running from the BU Bridge to the Mass. Ave / Harvard Bridge. This cropped still includes a different view a lot of the area in the prior photo. All of the drone photos are before the January 2016 outrages. Running from the very left is the extremely responsible Massachusetts Water Resource Agency facility, the BU Bridge, the Destroyed Nesting Area of the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese, the Grand Junction railroad and Bridge, the Wild Area also containing free animals, the BU Boathouse, the hotel area, and then a portion of the Charles River which was deliberately denuded of trees over the prior decade without replacement so Cambridge and the DCR could lie of “improvements. In spite of the vast number of photos in the report, I omitted this artificially created wasteland. Definitely an error on my part. </p><p>Then follows the bend which is the outrage that was inflicted on the Cherry Grove. The above photo has a better view from there from the bend.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5wriYm5NOkFEssnCNFz5gzAVujMMIGXzKmeFd_r1EB2WITHn83rsfSp3tc3jo-SkhprwtJKF_kQHaCQ7V9I_Jab5V3BXi1VIzJirzZ4Mkc_ywRSlfyBtd7CarUm-MN8Yy5ifvcbIhEz-yBrvQkkE1blOqV_sRXdP-Z3er9UlyIUsrPo1Y-WI/s1149/05-38%20DNA,%20BJBridge,%20Camb%20Side.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="1149" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH5wriYm5NOkFEssnCNFz5gzAVujMMIGXzKmeFd_r1EB2WITHn83rsfSp3tc3jo-SkhprwtJKF_kQHaCQ7V9I_Jab5V3BXi1VIzJirzZ4Mkc_ywRSlfyBtd7CarUm-MN8Yy5ifvcbIhEz-yBrvQkkE1blOqV_sRXdP-Z3er9UlyIUsrPo1Y-WI/w640-h226/05-38%20DNA,%20BJBridge,%20Camb%20Side.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The review I have submitted has so much in it that ALL the outrages could not be included, but it is really distressing to look back at this part of this still. A very major part of this “pre-existing wasteland was created by Cambridge in a “sewer project.” The outrage was left for years so that the DCR and CAMBRIDGE could LIE about all the “tree planting”after January 2016. An outrage was created and left to rot. This sort of lying got Cambridge designated as a “Tree City USA” over repeated years because “Tree City USA” and Cambridge and the DCR do not count the trees they OUTRAGEOUSLY destroy. Our report only shows the part done in and since January 2016. We tried to communicate this by showing tree destruction in the right hand part of this still in our report. We omitted the wasteland created by the sewer project.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzKB6-FSxk6vvavO74moUktpGM6r-28O2chPVuszjDrwM7Rfp-d6NuwJryhOZBAdPGH4RzJ2NWE9T0KiCtVAaTF6JPCRYw_cVlK1eqbFx1a6_Lk8jYmoc_b1LBWIn03pFldDcGjUzkokouaayvey-b8cK_9fs_TkF2X8gHbCS6-HWOTHr6fs7O/s201/05-38%20DNA,%20BJBridge,%20Camb%20Side,%20Camb%20Sewer%20Work.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="86" data-original-width="201" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzKB6-FSxk6vvavO74moUktpGM6r-28O2chPVuszjDrwM7Rfp-d6NuwJryhOZBAdPGH4RzJ2NWE9T0KiCtVAaTF6JPCRYw_cVlK1eqbFx1a6_Lk8jYmoc_b1LBWIn03pFldDcGjUzkokouaayvey-b8cK_9fs_TkF2X8gHbCS6-HWOTHr6fs7O/w640-h274/05-38%20DNA,%20BJBridge,%20Camb%20Side,%20Camb%20Sewer%20Work.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>From minute 1.59 of the drone stills, the Core Habitat of the Charles River White Geese for most of the last 42 years is shown in context. The bottom right is I90, the Massachusetts Turnpike, currently being studied for major improvements, of which Cambridge entities are fighting for major destruction in Cambridge. Plus Soldiers Field Road, the Boston correlative of Memorial Drive, which follows the river in Cambridge, running from the left to the top near the right.</p><p>In this clip, running from the left is the DCR Swimming Pool (white area), then the Magazine Street park under attack now along with the excellent grove to the left of the swimming pool, and the playing fields which have been their good weather habitat for most of the last 42 years. This is followed by the MWRA plant. There is a building under that open space, beautifully done. Then the area in the prior still.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3WxR4uqByW7ZS4huUYNsgnOFpC3KjnQMCVA9Animmor3B0H1ZxGy5SUm3NDBQzVEdRpTMuxpFcUHupPnL8ouLbmwBrr-Oy_p8GTrHtOeK0Pgs8LCmAHARc1r2d7iX75SZAlcBJWvJv32lsq4Ik7KkvyL5fR5sA1w8_m8mOKK9PjWAC5V7TMy/s1134/1.59%20s%20pool%20to%20DNA%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="1134" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3WxR4uqByW7ZS4huUYNsgnOFpC3KjnQMCVA9Animmor3B0H1ZxGy5SUm3NDBQzVEdRpTMuxpFcUHupPnL8ouLbmwBrr-Oy_p8GTrHtOeK0Pgs8LCmAHARc1r2d7iX75SZAlcBJWvJv32lsq4Ik7KkvyL5fR5sA1w8_m8mOKK9PjWAC5V7TMy/w640-h182/1.59%20s%20pool%20to%20DNA%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>And here is the DCR swimming pool and the excellent Micro Center grove currently under attack by the environmentally reprehensible Cambridge City Council and DC R, minute 2.33 cropped. The doomed grove is at the bottom right.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC11yBQdeY9YMSNvPdhgAXb5HvOqokQLCk9nadXeYR5TA4fLhDLLC6MoNvanQ7lkf2OzusPdcNgRNhiD7h5mWAq5sddai_HaMIQq_G8UDxc3s15jfUZ-e6qDizkUu2TATL6Sq1cD4gMQ1UEQcsSRSF6L4utswewqdx_dMuhemEC2xGFoRco0Hb/s224/2.33,%20MPk,%20Closer%20Crop%20to%20Pool%20Area%20and%20Grove.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="224" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC11yBQdeY9YMSNvPdhgAXb5HvOqokQLCk9nadXeYR5TA4fLhDLLC6MoNvanQ7lkf2OzusPdcNgRNhiD7h5mWAq5sddai_HaMIQq_G8UDxc3s15jfUZ-e6qDizkUu2TATL6Sq1cD4gMQ1UEQcsSRSF6L4utswewqdx_dMuhemEC2xGFoRco0Hb/w640-h494/2.33,%20MPk,%20Closer%20Crop%20to%20Pool%20Area%20and%20Grove.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Following is the transmittal to the Cambridge City Manager, with graphics added to assist the reader. Remember, this letter transmits 55 pages of outrages plus four pages of attachments. The CM letter is interrupted for more context.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>City Manager letter, part 1.</p><p>City Manager Yi-An Huang</p><p>City of Cambridge</p><p>795 Massachusetts Avenue</p><p>Cambridge, MA 02139<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p>Mr. City Manager:</p><p>RE:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>More detailed comments on the DCR PARTIALLY presented to Stewardship Council at its public meeting of May 25, 2023.</p><p>Welcome. I, personally, have been active in the City of Cambridge for four previous City Managers. Your immediate predecessor was a clear improvement over the three interlocked City Managers who preceded him. There, however, was only so much he could do.</p><p>Enclosed for your information and action is a copy of our communication to the CEO of the Department of Conservation and Recreation detailing the situation on the Charles River, with recommendations for correction. A copy is also being provided to the City Council.</p><p>You have almost certainly been given an incorrect impression of the situation on the Charles River, both in your current position and, previously, as a resident of Cambridge subject to the tiny but extremely loud Machine created with the assistance of the three interlocked City Managers.</p><p>We hope that you, directly or through your staff, will evaluate this communication including the recommendations therein in order to give you an accurate awareness of the situation and our proposed responses to the situation. </p><p>As noted in the communication, the legislature has attempted to correct extremely irresponsible management on the Charles River. The legislature took action, but unfortunately, the guilty parties migrated from the Metropolitan District Commission, which the legislature destroyed, to the Department of Conservation and Recreation, which received part of the MDC’s responsibilities. The guilty parties, with the assistance of the Cambridge bureaucracy, have since continued with their irresponsible behavior. They have done a great deal of harm and are proceeding to make the outrage even worse.</p><p>One excellent example of the outrageous situation in Cambridge government has been the handing of the subway proposal known as the Urban Ring. I have two years experience employed in a management level position in one of the nation’s largest railways. I started working on the Urban Ring proposal in 1986, and, realizing the destructiveness of the then existing proposal supported by the Cambridge bureaucracy, proposed an alternate route to the one supported by the Cambridge bureaucracy. </p><p>My proposal became known as the Kenmore Crossing. It was adopted by the MBTA as an alternative to the Cambridge bureaucracy’s favored proposal in 1991 or 1992. For A MINIMUM OF 20 YEARS thereafter, the Cambridge bureaucracy and the Machine lied that the only Urban Ring proposal under consideration was the irresponsible alternative supported by the Cambridge bureaucracy. </p><p>With my assistance and the assistance of responsible people in Government, plus one key developer, it now is clear that the Kenmore Crossing, probably terminating at Kenmore / Lansdowne Station, is the Urban Ring alternative which will go forward. Since the Harvard / Longwood Medical Center badly needs this transportation, it is highly likely it will go forward. The Cambridge government together with MIT have shot itself in the foot, once again, with massive MIT dormitory construction making the Urban Ring Kenmore Crossing much more expensive in Cambridge by being in the obvious path of the Kenmore Crossing. As a result, it is highly likely that the Urban Ring will terminate at Kenmore / Lansdowne Station. </p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Background.</p><p>The project pushed by the Cambridge bureaucracy to destroy the Wild Area required that Lansdowne Station near Fenway Park and Kenmore Station be moved maybe half a mile to the west (straight ahead in this photo) to a location a block from the core of Boston University, Marsh Chapel. Shown here is the current situation of Landsdowne Station, under the first of a four building project which has also completed a second building and has approvals for two more behind the camera. Lansdowne Station is at the bottom left, with the Worcester Line of the Boston Commuter Rail system to its right and then I90, the Massachusetts Turnpike. </p><p>Here is a very telling cropping of Minute 8.12 of “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguDPRWOV6MvuU04zjhxfdKp5pRxrbgkgwIwlXwACPAyg15QmTWbg3gjSf6PPGTVMwhA4mjKAywu-YDiWrySRyZerCYHpOd1zAFRdwNa909TdkXGrg_EQNiyuI2QXTjCefVDYW31TV-fYGdzJu3YTFnW2z3yLpIFlL6TNCAQwuPgwTzCaXZqbo7/s2448/IMG_0228.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguDPRWOV6MvuU04zjhxfdKp5pRxrbgkgwIwlXwACPAyg15QmTWbg3gjSf6PPGTVMwhA4mjKAywu-YDiWrySRyZerCYHpOd1zAFRdwNa909TdkXGrg_EQNiyuI2QXTjCefVDYW31TV-fYGdzJu3YTFnW2z3yLpIFlL6TNCAQwuPgwTzCaXZqbo7/w640-h640/IMG_0228.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The bridge straight ahead is the Beacon Street bridge connecting Kenmore Square to Brookline. Behind the camera is the Brookline Avenue bridge between Kenmore Square and Fenway Park, with the Longwood / Harvard Medical Center perhaps a mile beyond on Brookline Avenue, to the left rear. The coming buildings will quite certainly include allowances for the new subway, including links to combine Landsdowne Station to Kenmore Station as one big superstation which will also include ready transfers to three Green Line subway lines out of Kenmore, and one Green line subway line inbound.</p><p>This is from minute 8:12 of the drone stills</p><p>The bridge is the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge crossing the Charles River. The Boston end to the right is about one block from Kenmore Square, further to the right outside the photo. The state was considering, and still is considering an “Urban Ring” subway line which would provide very much needed public transportation for the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area, one of the biggest attractions for money in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCbQftK83Ztlztsu9egZPcO2TzIfHVgVCggOWIAxQV4ok4vvcvfKexaRqMbQiVO5X5VEVrdRPinlJIIFam8bUPBSpiow9meA2AtMiBwPkRpBtsw6syUf_Esfux-z1C-BQsKelWhvXLe-vkKpXmQaLxToTWLTZmowAK1IzLCxKQt_AgeACTizM/s445/8.12%20Dorm,%20Fields%20cropped.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="445" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCbQftK83Ztlztsu9egZPcO2TzIfHVgVCggOWIAxQV4ok4vvcvfKexaRqMbQiVO5X5VEVrdRPinlJIIFam8bUPBSpiow9meA2AtMiBwPkRpBtsw6syUf_Esfux-z1C-BQsKelWhvXLe-vkKpXmQaLxToTWLTZmowAK1IzLCxKQt_AgeACTizM/w640-h302/8.12%20Dorm,%20Fields%20cropped.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The original plans proposed that the line run under the Grand Junction railroad, which is visible as the grey area running at perhaps a 30 degree angle at the bottom left. This is the alternative that the Cambridge bureaucrats and the Cambridge machine supported and lied for more than 20 years was the only route under consideration.</p><p>The big green area is the playing fields of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Kenmore Crossing as proposed by me and adopted as an alternative by the state in 1991 or 1992, would have turned off the Grand Junction and run under the playing fields, followed by running under the Charles River and connecting to Kenmore Station under Kenmore Square.</p><p>The three truly massive buildings just on the other side of the Grand Junction are a dormitory complex constructed by MIT in the direct path of the Kenmore Crossing with the assistance of very major zoning games by the Cambridge City Council. Another apparently dormitory project to the right of this massive project is in planning or construction to the right of this building with further assistance of exchanges of property rights with the Cambridge City Council. </p><p>The tripartite building blocks the Kenmore Crossing. The next construction will apparently block an alternate route for a bike highway which is another dirty trick, but beyond the scope of this report. </p><p>Here is the Green Line A proposal described below. Section 5 presents the drone still view of the highway area going to the left. The road shown under it is Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. The BU Bridge is a little above the bottom right corner.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF-y09mnjjVAzW7yBPBTNBeZwHgBzELmZ6D0JzVig1H5TvQwl75CM1ZDhKHGpY2T6XVB5o8qfQI95EcOKaBkatM3l796YK2E6pBWTg80hIzTANA2HqPtAHBkaJJorucmXNc57_X9bwd3lXp_WrFHyQ5TG1TJDSDM76ir31V2Z1vilyS0vQjwOC/s3283/2017,%20GLA%20with%20label%20and%20alternatives%20clarified.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2546" data-original-width="3283" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF-y09mnjjVAzW7yBPBTNBeZwHgBzELmZ6D0JzVig1H5TvQwl75CM1ZDhKHGpY2T6XVB5o8qfQI95EcOKaBkatM3l796YK2E6pBWTg80hIzTANA2HqPtAHBkaJJorucmXNc57_X9bwd3lXp_WrFHyQ5TG1TJDSDM76ir31V2Z1vilyS0vQjwOC/w640-h496/2017,%20GLA%20with%20label%20and%20alternatives%20clarified.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>City Manager letter, part 2.</p><p>As part of my fruitful participation in the I90 Rebuild Project I have submitted the alternate Green Line A proposal included as Attachment 2. This will assist medical students and others to travel between the Medical Area and the relocated Harvard Medical School and related facilities being created ancillary to the I90 rebuild project. I have been highly beneficial to the City of Cambridge in my activities on the I90 Rebuild, IN SPITE OF MORE ERRORS BY THE BUREAUCRACY, THIS TIME THROUGH ITS APPOINTEES.</p><p>As stated in less detail in the attached communication, I persuaded MassDOT to move ALL of the Boston / area traffic from the River Street bridge / off ramp of Soldiers Field Road to my proposed direct Soldiers Field Road connection to and from the project area. Unfortunately, while my intent was to free up Cambridge traffic on that off ramp by relocating Boston / area traffic, the Cambridge appointees and their compatriots persuaded MassDOT to move Cambridge traffic to the new Harvard campus IN BOSTON / ALLSTON as well, and destroy the River Street off ramp. Fortunately, I and others persuaded MassDOT to do what I originally proposed, continue the River Street off ramp for the undisturbed benefit of Cambridge.</p><p>Prior to and overlapping with these environmental activities, I used zoning as a very effective environmental tool, assisting people throughout the City of Cambridge. I carefully kept these activities separate from The Machine because of the destructiveness of The Machine. Almost all of our victories constituted defeat of the bureaucracy and The Machine by vote of the Cambridge City Council. I, as a result, have had more impact on Cambridge zoning than any other individual not employed by the City of Cambridge. I would be pleased to follow up by providing you my partial résumé should you wish, but this package is pretty large without it.</p><p>We hope that you will take action appropriate to give the Commonwealth and the City of Cambridge the situation on the Charles River which the Commonwealth and City of Cambridge deserve and which the legislature attempted to provide, IN SPITE OF THE CONTINUING AND VERY BAD ACTIONS of the bureaucracy and The Machine.</p><p>Thank you in advance for your kind consideration and appropriate action.</p><p><br /></p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Harvard University’s Coming Allston Village Campus.</p><p>From the drone stills, minute 10:02. At the bottom right is the narrow river front area west of Magazine Beach and, to the left of this strip, a small portion of the area behind the excellent Micro Center grove which is doomed by the Cambridge City Council and the DCR..</p><p>The point at the top is about a block from Boston’s Allston Village area. This area’s planning would move the highway next to the BU West Campus and Allston neighborhood shown on the left. The balance of this area, a railroad yard, has been moved to Worcester, MA. The tall buildings on the right will not be directly affected.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRz9qbB9csrPT9bRKrZ3hQBGcjkSx0UYRnNw9MUHfgHSHj3lltE-VUIcQQx1ZvsTPfVGgiUaw_Z0sHdiGjLFNniIZs09XruOLq2C020TI_SNm2Zpff5mKluBqZ8aK2gOtuYnmxmg35AOTEOdc0p-wRkbMjgupj_7ncx2OP74-kGQcb8QP3GiN/s1148/10.02%20CR%20Mass%20Pike%20Close%20Up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="1148" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRz9qbB9csrPT9bRKrZ3hQBGcjkSx0UYRnNw9MUHfgHSHj3lltE-VUIcQQx1ZvsTPfVGgiUaw_Z0sHdiGjLFNniIZs09XruOLq2C020TI_SNm2Zpff5mKluBqZ8aK2gOtuYnmxmg35AOTEOdc0p-wRkbMjgupj_7ncx2OP74-kGQcb8QP3GiN/w640-h156/10.02%20CR%20Mass%20Pike%20Close%20Up.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-87216657220602641172023-06-22T10:05:00.008-05:002023-06-24T20:24:46.264-05:00A record of really bad government performance on the Charles River.<p>A record of really bad government performance on the Charles River.</p><p>My Charles River Report has been published on line by the Cambridge City Clerk. </p><p>A committee of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation went through a process of public input by ZOOM on May 25, 2023 on the Charles River. I was, of course, prevented from meaningful response. </p><p>I did not last long after I gave my summary: I very strongly think the best thing the DCR can do for the Charles River is to transfer its authority to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.</p><p>I worked on my detailed analysis of the outrage as it has occurred and CURRENT bad initiatives. I mailed the report just in time for delivery by the Cambridge City Clerk to the Cambridge City Council at its June 26, 2023 meeting. Mailing essentially simultaneously went out the the Department CEO, the relevant Committee, the Governor of Massachusetts and the Cambridge City Manager.</p><p>My analysis was published by the Cambridge City Clerk as part of the, June 23, 2023 on line publishing of the agenda for the June 26 2023 meeting. My big issue is how to communicate it concisely on this blog.</p><p>The report is so detailed and so extremely good, I have difficulty changing format to spell it out on this blog. A lot of the value of the report is in how it is spelled out in hard copy.</p><p>Its publication on line is at <a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3903&Inline=True</a>, pages 2654 to 2713. <br /><br />Officially, it is Communication 177 on the Agenda for the Cambridge City Council it is almost at the end of the agenda on line. The official name is: “More detailed comments on the DCR PARTIALLY presented to Stewardship Council at its public meeting of May 25, 2023.”</p><p>I apologize for not having a more communicative title on the hard copy.</p><p>Here is the INDEX to the report. I will follow up with some segments. I am particularly fond of my transmittal letter to the Cambridge City Manager, but right now, this is what I have to give to you now:</p><div><br /></div><p>* * * *</p><p>0.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction.</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Recommendations.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Two key documents which are of interest.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My video communicating the massive destruction inflicted on the Charles River in and around January 2016, and the destruction behind false “announcements.”.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Destruction at the Magazine Beach Recreation Area.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The outrage of January 2016, Western Portion.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Outage at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>East of the Magnificent Cherry Grove, West of the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>East of the Mass. Ave. / Harvard Bridge.</p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Attacks on the Wild Area during my exposure to it..</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Location of the Wild Area.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Urban Ring.</p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Possible Excuses.</p><p>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Continued outrages against the Charles River White Geese / their Destroyed Nesting Area.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“White Geese of Cambridge”</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Attacks by Boston University and accomplices.</p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Initial stages of destruction.</p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Heartless abuse and environmental destruction including attacks on nesting geese, assassination, rape and murder, the “reaction” of the Cambridge City Council.</p><p>(3)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Continuing outrages.</p><p>(4)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> BU Created a lawn. CRC & Friends destroyed lawn. DESTRUCTION OF GROUND VEGETATION EVERYWHERE except planned BU Bridge construction work area.</p><p>C<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>B.U. Bridge Work</p><p>D.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Railroad Work</p><p>E.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>More Starvation from the DCR. Blocking of food under Memorial Drive.</p><p>F.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Impact of destroying the Wild Area.</p><p>7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Magazine Beach Recreation Area, General.</p><p>8.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Walling off the Magazine Beach Playing Fields in the Name of a “Lawn to the River.” General.</p><p>9.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Poisoning of the Charles River by the DCR’s agent, a Contractor who also works on the Charles River for the Cambridge City Council.</p><p>10.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SECRET “improvements”by the Cambridge City Council. A - procedures, “New Dock”</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Procedures.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“New” Dock WITHOUT BEING AT ALL NEW.</p><p>11.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Ball Field Maple.</p><p>12.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SECRET “improvements”by the Cambridge City Council. B , A “View of the River.”</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The “View of the River.” </p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>What should be done.</p><p>13.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Magazine Street Park.</p><p>14.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Outrage at the Pedestrian Bridge over Memorial Drive..</p><p>15.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>MicroCenter Grove.</p><p>16.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Summary.</p><p>Attachments</p><p>* * * * *</p><p>The Index got too big to spell out the attachments in the Index. I spelled them out at the end:</p><p>* * * * *</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Magazine Beach Destruction agreed to and provided to the Cambridge City Council in 2019 by the GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR designated by the City of Cambridge as the ONLY PERSON (WITH FRIENDS) ALLOWED TO HAVE “PUBLIC INPUT” on projects in the BU Bridge area. She previously poisoned the Charles River on behalf of the DCR (see above) and assisted the January 2016 outrage as part of a standard Cambridge Company Union claimed to be a “protective group” (Look only at what we tell you to look at.) </p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Author’s proposal for new Green Line A mass transit route, better for Cambridge transportation without the damage fought for by the “planners.” Better for Biden money that the bizarre bureaucracy beloved proposals.</p><p>* * * * *</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-84677898053093284822023-04-19T11:49:00.006-05:002023-04-19T12:05:15.161-05:00Two new “initiatives” on the Charles River. BOTH SCARY. Plus Cambridge’s preventing meaningful “public review” of the real stuff.<p>Two new “initiatives” on the Charles River. BOTH SCARY. Plus Cambridge’s preventing meaningful “public review” of the real stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction to the “initiatives.”</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Close Memorial Drive on “Saturday.”</p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not to look at ongoing destruction FUNDED AND SUPPORTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL including destroying the excellent MicroCenter Grove on Magazine Beach across from the MicroCenter store.</p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not to look at YET AGAIN attempts to destroy the magnificent Wild Area east of the BU Bridge which powers that be in Cambridge have been to destroy since at least 1986.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Grand Junction “Path.”</p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>M.I.T.’s Private Ramp from I-90 and possibly further.</p><p>(a)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Current status.</p><p>(b)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Prior game defeated.</p><p>(c)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The game.</p><p>(3)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Boston, once again, reflects sanity.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Restrict “public” review of plans to A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR, the Charles River Poisoner and her friends.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A responsible alternative WHICH WOULD BENEFIT CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON WITHOUT the beloved massive destruction.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction to the “initiatives.”</p><p>There are two “initiatives.”</p><p><br /></p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Close the Memorial Drive on “Saturday.”</p><p>Memorial Drive is the state owned boulevard which follows the Charles River on its north side . A LOT OF HARM HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE TO IT BY CAMBRIDGE AND BY MASSACHUSETTS’ DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION. The pitch being passed on to well meaning people tells them not to look at the outrages already accomplished or planned, destruction of hundreds of mostly excellent trees. Close Memorial Drive on Saturday. Ignore the terrible record of government. See our detailed video for the real record at https://youtu.be.com/dWyCdcWMuAA. </p><p>The concept of closing Memorial Drive on Saturday IN ADDITION TO CLOSING IT ON SUNDAY was originated in City Council IMMEDIATELY after the City Council got a bunch of letters from people west of Harvard Square afraid that the Department of Conservation and Recreation was going to destroy more trees on Memorial Drive, this time in their portion.</p><p>Apparent friends of the City Council announced the creation of yet another possibly fake protective group, to close Memorial Drive on Saturday in addition to closing it on Sunday. </p><p>Closing on Saturday very much will not happen because of the very great harm likely to too many people, BUT FIGHTING TO CLOSE IT WILL KEEP CONCERNED PEOPLE “OUT OF TROUBLE.” </p><p>Crucial in the creation of this group is the repeated pattern of so many “protective” groups appearing in Cambridge when destructive action is likely, action which is favored by the “powers that be.” </p><p>Such entities give the impression that“the right kind of people” are getting active. The “right kind of people” in such groups commonly are dominated by development / contracting professionals and people with major connections to local institutions. Folks dominating things neglect to mention dirty hands.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a lot of experience MEANINGFULLY GETTING THINGS DONE IN CAMBRIDGE. My victories commonly have had such groups on the losing side. Here is a map showing the most controversial part of my zoning victories, along with a table detailing those victories, WITH TOO MUCH HARM DONE TO THESE VICTORIES BY RECENT CITY COUNCIL ACTIONS.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0TsP6ppNGZJoQe6U8bGaTae71L4ENDV1Ow55NkvIUX6ckp9eWfCNH5ez2uZRe8Dmmb-40o4iWdVf-JCqeGkvu89rI0DXLLhGcoeZkTwy6clVL0kaEzWtDOQ3fA1nrjW1dTuXh9OOWYyaaVv5x7t_TDcdw56nweSd_pIXxcp59gXt7JI7tg/s3289/JFK%20-%20City%20Hall,%20Mellen%20Marked%20U,%20reduced%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2530" data-original-width="3289" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp0TsP6ppNGZJoQe6U8bGaTae71L4ENDV1Ow55NkvIUX6ckp9eWfCNH5ez2uZRe8Dmmb-40o4iWdVf-JCqeGkvu89rI0DXLLhGcoeZkTwy6clVL0kaEzWtDOQ3fA1nrjW1dTuXh9OOWYyaaVv5x7t_TDcdw56nweSd_pIXxcp59gXt7JI7tg/w640-h492/JFK%20-%20City%20Hall,%20Mellen%20Marked%20U,%20reduced%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIFIEx8AxwL_8MQQIvHKCB1YPAQk72wfddd7R9gXnJBMLj5Y2bulXLmvvWlGLDM_5OgYzZb5mrZcl1GNO13KmNXknSyolPmrCkm-I40smOQmQb-jgoJ5_x0bcU2KzlXTNjZjH1Qw-dYraR2yq4B-oAHvPJ4AzxmDXobzzKBy3XP3EmJ8Lmg/s3507/Table,%20Activist%20R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUIFIEx8AxwL_8MQQIvHKCB1YPAQk72wfddd7R9gXnJBMLj5Y2bulXLmvvWlGLDM_5OgYzZb5mrZcl1GNO13KmNXknSyolPmrCkm-I40smOQmQb-jgoJ5_x0bcU2KzlXTNjZjH1Qw-dYraR2yq4B-oAHvPJ4AzxmDXobzzKBy3XP3EmJ8Lmg/w466-h640/Table,%20Activist%20R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20Red.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><p>“Activism” and suddenly appeared “protective groups” are a standard con when outrages are coming. Get people to chase their tails, i.e. chase a nominally lovely idea which CANNOT GET DONE. Get people to ignore the real problem which is connected to the city government / its friends.</p><p>In this instance the game is to distract people from destruction on the Charles River in the BU Bridge area. Two key examples:</p><p><br /></p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not to look at ongoing destruction FUNDED AND SUPPORTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL including destroying the excellent MicroCenter Grove on Magazine Beach across from the MicroCenter store.</p><p>The Cambridge City Council has funded an “activist” on this project who, acting as contractor for the DCR poisoned the Charles River. She has given the City Council plans SHE HAS AGREED TO which would destroy that grove.</p><p>Here is the doomed grove: </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIzcl97BeXLK1l-pm5Zwimp5jjBBEj9_Nb_ik8HVY1K5n-VirQWJ-zYqq51UlqEVDq1Dph0eIWt5yOC5an52Au1NAPD6Inxa-k3urh50vVO0wWczuwz-Eu75nkWMfVt1VSLplg3uonCRUzqFRw6oRFZL27KQ4V1Id-_0ELnxHYOqXozI2Hw/s796/IMG_2273,%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="796" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIzcl97BeXLK1l-pm5Zwimp5jjBBEj9_Nb_ik8HVY1K5n-VirQWJ-zYqq51UlqEVDq1Dph0eIWt5yOC5an52Au1NAPD6Inxa-k3urh50vVO0wWczuwz-Eu75nkWMfVt1VSLplg3uonCRUzqFRw6oRFZL27KQ4V1Id-_0ELnxHYOqXozI2Hw/w640-h522/IMG_2273,%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Here is the relevant part of the plans she gave to the Cambridge City Council showing that she has already approved creating the parking lot she supports replacing those trees with.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW36O3aMzImcB0R9eMb0cKnj4vehByexDN1dmYTkNZRBwWaOP1pTdcD4Ti5jegPlGi19K8mUbXZk73Omw1QvMLhYVbgVrJsLYRx6UkAk1l3UkdCQxsD12ZxZGQKKQA2PajokVmILJAKGZkToCmoCxUsR4FpbEsFR_r-77MM_ichGgcu0fr_Q/s404/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2left%20crop%20to%20Grove%20plus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="399" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW36O3aMzImcB0R9eMb0cKnj4vehByexDN1dmYTkNZRBwWaOP1pTdcD4Ti5jegPlGi19K8mUbXZk73Omw1QvMLhYVbgVrJsLYRx6UkAk1l3UkdCQxsD12ZxZGQKKQA2PajokVmILJAKGZkToCmoCxUsR4FpbEsFR_r-77MM_ichGgcu0fr_Q/w632-h640/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2left%20crop%20to%20Grove%20plus.jpg" width="632" /></a></div><br /><p>The number “3" in the middle of the current location of those trees. The parking lot is on top of them.</p><p>Her most significant record is her poisoning of the Charles River as contractor for the DCR.</p><p>The key event was when Cambridge and the DCR started their heartless starvation of the 43 year resident Charles River White Geese. This was pretty much the same time that the DCR and Cambridge started poisoning the previously pristine playing fields at Magazine Beach where the Charles River White Geese lived and fed. Cambridge and the DCR spent a bunch of money creating artificial drainage for poisons they should not even be dumping on the banks of the Charles River.</p><p>Here is how the Charles River Poisoner blocked that drainage. The black area is plastic replacing healthy vegetation that constituted the drainage. The healthy vegetation was pulled up and then carted away by the Cambridge Department of Public Works. This was followed by blocking the drainage with the black plastic. The blue area near the top is the Charles River.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPKcm_SEzfNavaHxVQcXaHfIqvOYR6oDGLDOIbzXMKmqlUJcS3Q-YgqDP41nKZtKCTZs03cB7fS8V0jvHZdMa5QEq8GX6PMx6YjHa7fbNgA05lNW0JiV-s781Xx8x3upjY18ufzNEQCWvwmVoW3l817_wwPjlnNXPUCxdrHVpbJQHWSBMuxA/s960/IMG_2715.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPKcm_SEzfNavaHxVQcXaHfIqvOYR6oDGLDOIbzXMKmqlUJcS3Q-YgqDP41nKZtKCTZs03cB7fS8V0jvHZdMa5QEq8GX6PMx6YjHa7fbNgA05lNW0JiV-s781Xx8x3upjY18ufzNEQCWvwmVoW3l817_wwPjlnNXPUCxdrHVpbJQHWSBMuxA/w640-h480/IMG_2715.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here is just one of a number of photos from Phil Barber that I have published of the resulting algae infestation when the poisons that had been drained away was rerouted into the Charles:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHWzFoY2zS6p9VVjuEF79HBANU9HY2TUGOnSt-vhdfkxZNRMgoU1XnzkWa24NyJlYjXznNmsFwk9cxiJUmgTy7t3UfpAz7Byb-NtRqQ-vj_241sLkeDLLdHnB6pOLNVU5diyO4E6WST1RWYkpjFJF6Q28vXkOEH6PrI8blkOHQoX7TYrD5g/s750/09-03-18%202%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbHWzFoY2zS6p9VVjuEF79HBANU9HY2TUGOnSt-vhdfkxZNRMgoU1XnzkWa24NyJlYjXznNmsFwk9cxiJUmgTy7t3UfpAz7Byb-NtRqQ-vj_241sLkeDLLdHnB6pOLNVU5diyO4E6WST1RWYkpjFJF6Q28vXkOEH6PrI8blkOHQoX7TYrD5g/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%203.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The filth the Charles River Poisoner created in turn created a public health emergency in the Charles River east of the Mass. Ave. Bridge which is the next bridge east of the BU Bridge.</p><p>So naturally, the Cambridge City Council paid her for planning environmental work. She was “planning” work she and the DCR, as shown above, had already decided to do, and provided those plans to the Cambridge City Council.</p><p>Here are the DCR plans on Magazine Beach filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission, as we passed them, along with photos, to the Cambridge City Council: <a href="http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf">http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf</a>. </p><p><br />(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not to look at YET AGAIN attempts to destroy the magnificent Wild Area east of the BU Bridge which powers that be in Cambridge have been to destroy since at least 1986.</p><p>Here is a photo of this excellent woods taken from the BU Bridge, with the Grand Junction Railroad / Bridge to the left and the ghetto to which the Charles River White Geese have been confined AND THEIR FOOD DESTROYED to the far left.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtAGi7ETdHDdzwHZbSy-6QhnKP5GtIx_OQO7N0IzVu8BPcatsYVyUS4h_His6LNtP3LcwnogFktNmW9ttXKAc_JFHVr45efbEkfdrovEu3-jt1ZEcx0R_b_V_kUF0KLvplsYaNkYEsUWx4eM2AFRXdznGbG4EPDoBHsJLXOztuwDGecvu8IQ/s351/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="351" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtAGi7ETdHDdzwHZbSy-6QhnKP5GtIx_OQO7N0IzVu8BPcatsYVyUS4h_His6LNtP3LcwnogFktNmW9ttXKAc_JFHVr45efbEkfdrovEu3-jt1ZEcx0R_b_V_kUF0KLvplsYaNkYEsUWx4eM2AFRXdznGbG4EPDoBHsJLXOztuwDGecvu8IQ/w640-h362/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The white figures are members of the gaggle of the beloved 43 year resident Charles River White Geese hunting for food which has been increasingly destroyed by Cambridge and the DCR.</p><p>Cambridge and the DCR destroyed hundreds of trees on the Charles River between the BU Bridge and the Longfellow Bridge in 2016. Here is my video / slide show memorializing that outrage: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. </p><p>The plans included destruction of the Wild Area. Here is the relevant plan, showing exactly ONE OF THESE TREES NOT DESTROYED.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgp7rtBQtTRBqP3fVvq2AXueiQRjpjUVulci4Qlq5U8_yKw20zzVgDWMNGxc59sYP5ZSNFYtRZSR0FgORXvP0JZLqv8TilnGbyV2v3b0R1YmQe4E0O0UgW9njI3QuJfpD3A2ye_QBkF44ZYj0_O89U5OUVmUWU45CCObw8grow_lNmovMm5Q/s3300/Mem%20Dr%20Tree%20Destr%2002,%20red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3300" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgp7rtBQtTRBqP3fVvq2AXueiQRjpjUVulci4Qlq5U8_yKw20zzVgDWMNGxc59sYP5ZSNFYtRZSR0FgORXvP0JZLqv8TilnGbyV2v3b0R1YmQe4E0O0UgW9njI3QuJfpD3A2ye_QBkF44ZYj0_O89U5OUVmUWU45CCObw8grow_lNmovMm5Q/w640-h494/Mem%20Dr%20Tree%20Destr%2002,%20red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The Wild Area is to the right. Note exactly one numbered circle / trees NOT DESTROYED in this thick woods.</p><p>The DCR did not do that destruction in 2016, but the stench is present now. They are renewing their plans. And originally announced those plans in a “public meeting” scheduled in a highly deceptive manner.</p><p>Here are the plans on Magazine Beach filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission, as I passed them, along with photos, to the Cambridge City Council: <a href="http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf">http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf</a>. </p><p>Games have been played WITH A CITY COUNCIL WHICH HAS DONE REALLY DESTRUCTIVE STUFF IN RECENT YEARS, WHILE YELLING AT THE OTHER GUY. </p><p>As part of the game, the DCR has apparently “agreed” to move “improvements” to Memorial Drive east of the River Street Bridge (first bridge WEST of the BU Bridge) to SECRET handling, with review only by A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR, the Charles River Poisoner and friends, AS FRAUDULENT “PUBLIC INPUT.” In place of supposedly meaningful review which would be done west of Harvard Square. </p><p><br /></p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Grand Junction “Path.”</p><p><br /></p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>This supposed “improvement” would pretty up the Grand Junction Railroad starting several hundred feet north of Memorial Drive. The discussion I observed included a RESPONSIBLE woman asking what goes on below the several hundred feet point. The response of the bureaucrats was MISLEADING, to put it mildly.</p><p>As usual, the apparently visible part is innocuous, but there are very major problems.</p><p><br /></p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>M.I.T.’s Private Ramp from I-90 and possibly further.</p><p><br /></p><p>(a)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Current status.</p><p>The best presentations on this proposal were done in a package from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Cambridge City Council in 2014. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8HD9PLV2KsuxmvszZGXOMc8_ikQrrDypxtaso6o5sI1tIyI34dNEporpnTmwh_nXt6UZtRRY0yMC-80gZnX_d9_2oOdM299bb8p5BytE6Y15xfMqpaqyoG8vx9q6Il62tWWIr5xWJwZvXcjnCDuYYpG1kd3iEdfNhAfkYibi29zHLMI-smg/s2064/04%20-%20Ownership.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="2064" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8HD9PLV2KsuxmvszZGXOMc8_ikQrrDypxtaso6o5sI1tIyI34dNEporpnTmwh_nXt6UZtRRY0yMC-80gZnX_d9_2oOdM299bb8p5BytE6Y15xfMqpaqyoG8vx9q6Il62tWWIr5xWJwZvXcjnCDuYYpG1kd3iEdfNhAfkYibi29zHLMI-smg/w640-h284/04%20-%20Ownership.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>The portion marked “MIT” has since been sold to Harvard. Plans presented by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Company in 2003 would run a highway through pretty much the entire colored area, with access ramps to and from I-90 which can be seen in the lower left corner. The new highway would cross the Charles River on a widened Grand Junction Bridge going under the BU Bridge, and would directly connect to I90 west bound (traveling to the upper left), By a ramp crossing I90 in the lower left corner. The MBTA proposal would connect I90 east bound traffic to Cambridge. THAT IS THE GAME.</p><p>The Destroyed Nesting Area, the ghetto to which the 43 year resident and beloved Charles River White Geese have been confined WITH ALL FOOD DESTROYED is between the Grand Junction and the BU Bridge. The Wild Area is the area to the right of the Grand Junction following the Charles River.</p><p>From the same source, with one modification by us, M.I.T. showed the various options in play.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Y59OX7ScncaC0Nk2RzAtLJzGZu39FcT18FwrOdQEc14sPHO6L57ZsGnrSkXA_Cf1Qt2lF3INxJyI2mqu6uJgShgvJZnubTHNlnb_YxqeF7ZyB7oHllxvrKUvG7rIma4s1Kh7rRJF2cF6bpPpgR4ZG0yPXHnYwaYAySflK2x6KFSh3qM5qg/s1829/14%20-%20BU%20Bridge%20Options%20Mod.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1829" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Y59OX7ScncaC0Nk2RzAtLJzGZu39FcT18FwrOdQEc14sPHO6L57ZsGnrSkXA_Cf1Qt2lF3INxJyI2mqu6uJgShgvJZnubTHNlnb_YxqeF7ZyB7oHllxvrKUvG7rIma4s1Kh7rRJF2cF6bpPpgR4ZG0yPXHnYwaYAySflK2x6KFSh3qM5qg/w640-h328/14%20-%20BU%20Bridge%20Options%20Mod.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The area marked 5 is the connection to the Mass. Pike over the widened Grand Junction Bridge. The route marked 2 is the current supposed proposal. Under the current supposed proposal, the new bike path would connect from the Grand Junction to THE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE at this block of Brookline Street, Cambridge. </p><p>The area marked 4 is probably the one honest presentation of attacks on the Charles River White Geese. This bike highway supposedly does not exist now YET. The powers that be will suddenly “discover” THE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE. The new highway would be extended to destroy the already Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and, preferably, from their point of view, to widen the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge in accordance with the MBTA report..</p><p>Following the Grand Junction up to the upper right, is a crossing to Vassar Street, parallel to the Grand Junction Railroad. M.I.T. was proposing to connect the bike path to the Charles River by this route, marked 1. Recently, the City Council voted for a change in property rights to allow what looks like a blockage of this route by another M.I.T. dormitory. Following Vassar Street to the left, the street turns. At this point, we have marked in the sane route for the bike path to access the Charles River. This would require moving private parking in this location to a created parking terrace on the river side of Vassar Street which is currently used for unstructured parking.</p><p>The sales pitch from the bureaucrats in the Grand Junction Path meeting I attended to a responsible question told the questioner not to worry about what would be done between the currently proposed bike path and the river. THE QUESTION OF THE RESPONSIBLE WOMAN WAS SHOUTED DOWN.</p><p>This is the area reflected in the plans above as being destroyed except for one tree in plans being maneuvered through maximum secrecy.</p><p>This is the Wild Area, which Cambridge bureaucrats have been trying to destroy since at least 1985. A proposal initiated by me has killed a subway line proposal which would have crossed the Charles at this point. That coming subway would now appear to be ending at Kenmore as a spur off the Orange Line running from Ruggles, in a partial implementation of my proposal.</p><p>This is the real destructive part, featuring and fully predictable, the Wild Area that the Cambridge bureaucrats have been trying to destroy since 1986. A refuge of free animals, most visibly the loved Charles River White Geese.</p><p>Cambridge bureaucrats and the ALWAYS ACTIVE developer / contractor lobby hate free animals. They have “no value.” English translation; NO MONEY TO THE CONTRACTORS / DEVELOPERS.</p><p>So destroy, destroy, destroy.</p><p><br /></p><p>(b)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Prior game defeated.</p><p>The first attempt I was aware of was to run a subway through the Wild Area. The contractor / developer / institution lobby shot themselves in the foot. An initiative initially proposed by me has moved the subway proposal about a mile to the east, now probably terminating at Kenmore Square next to the Red Sox’ Fenway Park.</p><p>Key to that defeat of Cambridge’s Developer / Contractor lobby was a project across the street from Fenway Park based on the Commuter Rail station there, now called “Landsdowne Station.” The bureaucrat’s beloved destruction of the Wild Area would have required moving Landsdowne Station a block from the heart of the Boston University campus.</p><p>Landsdowne Station has seen a gilding with public moneys and two new massive privately funded buildings as part of a now approved four building project. The gilding of Landsdowne Station with state moneys came not that long after I informed the developer of Cambridge’s wish to move Landsdowne Station. A key part of his project is the excellent transportation coming as part of the Superstation on the alternate subway route I proposed.</p><p>This project is associated with the alternative I proposed for the subway Cambridge has been fighting for which would destroy the Wild Area. The subway alternative, instead of crossing the Charles River through the Wild Area, would go under playing fields of M.I.T., cross the Charles west of the Mass. Ave. Bridge (the next bridge east of the B.U. Bridge), create a superstation at Kenmore connecting to all Green Line branches there and to commuter rail, and then proceeding under Brookline Avenue (or so) with a possible station in the Brookline Avenue / Fenway area, a VERY IMPORTANT STATION at Louis Pasteur and Longwood supporting the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area, and then link at Ruggles Station to the Orange Line subway. The northern end would connect to the Orange Line in Charlestown.</p><p>Cambridge / M.I.T. have played games to make the route north of the Charles much more expensive. The obvious result is to simply build this subway line as an Orange Line spur running from Ruggles to the Superstation at Kenmore Square / Station. The important part of the subway line is necessary transportation for the Massachusetts cash cow at the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area. That can be very effectively accomplished with the subway terminating at Kenmore Square / Station.</p><p>Landsdowne Station with its gilding and the now approved four building project would be part of the superstation. Landsdowne Station is not going to be moved.</p><p>On general principles, here is the gilded Landsdowne Station as part of the larger of the two existing buildings. To the right of the station is I90. The bridge in the rear of the photo is Beacon Street connecting Kenmore Square / Station to Brookline. Behind the camera is the Brookline Avenue bridge connecting Kenmore Square / Station to Fenway Park. That bridge will be a major part of the final two buildings in the Landsdowne project, including connection to Kenmore Square / Station as part of the coming Superstation.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfTuZB7r6gxg9gmypfSef8DXB-MXHJGoq33bDWko7E_KrZ2Yo_dEgRtF6khHXqYTLjYupaXuI69FT9qpm2iwVC5QgAktp1mpkg5YsH8uDnqyMDT72dARqBuPgJl67hVXq2P0CjhHqo-0bita5tcMJKdVEnTEU-NID20U2y4XujglD8KtEzA/s2448/IMG_0228.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnfTuZB7r6gxg9gmypfSef8DXB-MXHJGoq33bDWko7E_KrZ2Yo_dEgRtF6khHXqYTLjYupaXuI69FT9qpm2iwVC5QgAktp1mpkg5YsH8uDnqyMDT72dARqBuPgJl67hVXq2P0CjhHqo-0bita5tcMJKdVEnTEU-NID20U2y4XujglD8KtEzA/w640-h640/IMG_0228.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Another loss for Cambridge’s destructive Developer / Contractor / Institution lobby.</p><p><br /></p><p>(c)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The game.</p><p>The Grand Junction “Path” game is a private exit from I90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) to M.I.T. and beyond, assisted by the lovely park being created WHICH CAN READILY BE DESTROYED FOR THE HIGHWAY KILLED FIFTY YEARS AGO. The highway would go as far as the lobby can make it.</p><p>The Developer / Contractor / Institution lobby has fought to get state moneys to set up the beginning of that outrage, the upgrading of the Grand Junction railroad bridge as part of apparently needed improvements to I-90. The private exit ramp / whatever will only work if that bridge is widened.</p><p><br /></p><p>(3)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Boston, once again, reflects sanity.</p><p>What is happening off that is up in the air. The REAL PURPOSE has been to use state proper planning to counter the effect of fifty years of wear and tear on I-90 (Mass. Pike) across from Magazine Beach. The planning has gotten distressingly secret although I followed it for years. The visible part appears to be outrageous construction in the Charles River, but the always present widening of the Grand Junction railroad bridge could be in there.</p><p>Last I was hearing, powers in Boston seem to have blocked funding because the obvious part of the project would create yet another campus for Harvard University, the triangular Allston Village campus, wide at Soldiers Field Road on the Charles (the Boston correlative to Cambridge’s Memorial Drive), pointed at the other end a block from Boston’s Allston Village student area. East and west boundaries would be Boston University West and an existing residential neighborhood plus a much larger existing residential neighborhood separated by Cambridge Street. See my analysis above.</p><p>I have had two major victories in this project. The part really being bragged about by the I-90 project management would connect Harvard’s new Allston Village campus to Soldier Field Road heading toward and from Downtown Boston. That was my idea. In fact, in an extremely unusual action for a MassDOT public meeting, I was shouted down by the chair when originally I made the suggestion. He, in interrupting me, called my idea to rearrange the ramps outside the parameters of their authority.</p><p>Here is drone footage of the area from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>. This shot is from minute 10.02. The lower end of the photo shows the river / flat end of Harvard’s triangular Allston Village Campus at the point where the new intersection will be constructed. On the near side of the river is the area where the Cambridge City Council is fighting to destroy the MicroCenter Grove. Above the new intersection will be the Allston Village Campus. The point of the triangle at the top is about one block from Allston Village.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivLhf69x7NHsSfeUndTRDJYoCFVNwbIZd65_llKC70mOFPHgYVvHo-s0j573v9S8jviX0LUVMuCs8lo03WwY0gJe00PgUEkPRHlHuKMqiABTFhDDc8A8kAplzlxRseGWm8e9mq9DKmNpQc472HeKaRp9AI2E9Q9CP4S_rJ_qvFTkSnXuMRwg/s1148/10.02%20CR%20Mass%20Pike%20Close%20Up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="1148" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivLhf69x7NHsSfeUndTRDJYoCFVNwbIZd65_llKC70mOFPHgYVvHo-s0j573v9S8jviX0LUVMuCs8lo03WwY0gJe00PgUEkPRHlHuKMqiABTFhDDc8A8kAplzlxRseGWm8e9mq9DKmNpQc472HeKaRp9AI2E9Q9CP4S_rJ_qvFTkSnXuMRwg/w640-h156/10.02%20CR%20Mass%20Pike%20Close%20Up.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>At the bottom of this photo can be seen that portion of Magazine Beach in Cambridge WHERE THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER IS BEING PAID BY THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL TO “PLAN” DESTRUCTION OF THE MICROCENTER GROVE. Earlier in this report are the plans SHE gave to the City Council years ago showing that she had already agreed to destroy the MicroCenter Grove. The edge shown in this photo is immediately south of the doomed grove and to the left / east of the small building which is visible.</p><p>My other victory in the I-90 Project was to restrict the access from Soldiers Field Road to the River Street Bridge (next bridge west of the BU Bridge) so that the ramp only goes to Cambridge rather than the current situation where the ramp is clogged with traffic that would be moved to the new connector. That bridge is the extension of the road to the right end of this photo. The road continues to the right as the River Street Bridge, running over the Charles River.</p><p>What is being used by the Boston folk, it would appear, to restrict funding is the fact that the Allston Village Campus would have its street structure LAID OUT FOR HARVARD WITH STATE MONEY. The Boston folk think Harvard should pay to create Harvard’s new campus.</p><p>Very helpful. If Boston can kill the widening of the Grand Junction bridge, the building in the Charles, and Harvard’s nonsensical and DUPLICATIVE private commuter rail station keyed into, of course, building up the Grand Junction Railroad area in Cambridge, that would be excellent.</p><p>Harvard’s holdings date back to the time when the “Inner Belt” was killed for the time being.</p><p>But it is terrific to see Boston, once again, standing up to outrages centered in Cambridge.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Restrict “public” review of plans to A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR, the Charles River Poisoner and her friends.</p><p>The DCR plans have been “modified.” The area west of Harvard Square gets “PUBLIC REVIEW.”</p><p>The area east of the River Street Bridge (the first bridge west of the BU Bridge has been transferred to SECRET PLANNING. This is the real stuff, the dirty tricks. The City of Cambridge has that truly fraudulent “protective group” which they DEMAND all :”public” discussions center on.</p><p>That fake protective group is really fake. As detailed above, it is a one woman outrage. The woman is the one who, as contractor for the DCR, poisoned the Charles River. She has this very fake protective group which pretty much keeps all plans secret. I have actually seen her / her people lie that no trees will be destroyed in the Magazine Beach reservation in spite of destruction already achieved and planned for the future. Cambridge demands nobody else be given access to plans. </p><p>This situation is REALLY OUTRAGEOUS. Fraudulent claims to “public review.” NONSENSICAL CLAIMS OF “PUBLIC REVIEW “.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A responsible alternative WHICH WOULD BENEFIT CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON WITHOUT the beloved massive destruction.</p><p>Harvard is pitching a private commuter rail station as a benefit to the neighborhood. The usual nonsense. Commuter rail service is, of necessity, so limited in trips that the neighborhood does not get meaningful benefit.</p><p>The impact on public transportation is destructive. Harvard’s private station would be too close the existing new station next to the Everett Street Bridge over the Mass Pike and thus would bizarrely slow down commuters who really need commuter rail. Responsible behavior would be bus service from this “Boston Landing” station to Harvard’s new Allston Village campus.</p><p>I have proposed public transportation which would benefit the residential North Allston neighborhood and provide direct connection between Harvard Square and Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, reducing traffic on the existing Red Line subway between Harvard Square and Downtown Boston, a Green Line A spur running from the intersection of the BU Bridge and Commonwealth avenue to Harvard’s Allston Village Campus above the upgraded I90, and then under North Harvard Street to the residential North Allston neighborhood (where I lived for a semester), and then to Harvard Square.</p><p>Such MEANINGFUL transportation improvement would truly be a benefit to the North Allston residential neighborhood, with underground stations at Cambridge Street and Franklin Street.</p><p>This proposal, because of the meaningful public transportation, would also be much more attractive to the Biden administration. AND THUS PROVIDE MONEY BOSTON EXPECTS. Additionally, the underground portion would make Boston investment highly appropriate. Plus this connector spur would be of major benefit to Cambridge by improving access to Harvard Square and reducing traffic on the overloaded Red Line beween Harvard Square / Station and Park Street / Station. It thus would make financial contribution by Cambridge highly appropriate.</p><p>But the Cambridge lobby of developers / contractors / institutions wants their bennies, including destruction of the BU Bridge area in Cambridge.</p><p>So the Cambridge City Council is telling people to chase their tails on Memorial Drive and ignore the outrages supported by the Cambridge City Council.</p><p>Here is my map of the responsible alternative. Harvard’s Allston Village Campus is to the left of the lower curve of the river. Harvard Square is at the top middle, with three possible station locations marked. At the bottom right is the BU Bridge. The bottom end of the BU Bridge would be adjacent to the new Green Line A Spur.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUSZx5oZua2vGGkeIIInczEFMDbDzmW1kGooAlGKocZ26sKKO58VAwRG--fgzdKCan7mn2o4fgTHZ_4x4qiHJKAl9gd2P28e_0O2NJdVgj23Iqfm-ep5XD9gxhsjgXxNx_WrMn3rwnXbB-qKndfWzpphwS2O9aANyluTTA6PpNuloXA7Hdg/s3507/2017%20GLA%20w%20Alternatives%20dkr%20001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuUSZx5oZua2vGGkeIIInczEFMDbDzmW1kGooAlGKocZ26sKKO58VAwRG--fgzdKCan7mn2o4fgTHZ_4x4qiHJKAl9gd2P28e_0O2NJdVgj23Iqfm-ep5XD9gxhsjgXxNx_WrMn3rwnXbB-qKndfWzpphwS2O9aANyluTTA6PpNuloXA7Hdg/w466-h640/2017%20GLA%20w%20Alternatives%20dkr%20001.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-19826093546887448282023-03-10T17:06:00.007-05:002023-03-11T12:50:16.299-05:00Beloved Bald Eagle in neighboring Arlington poisoned. Cambridge and the DCR not known to STOP poisoning Magazine Beach. <p>RE:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Beloved Bald Eagle in neighboring Arlington poisoned. Cambridge and the DCR not known to STOP poisoning Magazine Beach. Cambridge RESTRICTS advance knowledge of environmental actions in the BU Bridge area to the WOMAN WHO POISONED THE CHARLES AS AGENT FOR THE DCR.</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Related outrage. Beloved bald eagle poisoned.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Related letter to destructive Cambridge City Council.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Charles River Poisoner, beloved by Cambridge government.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charles River Poisoner and friends designated as THE ONLY ENTITIES ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS IN THE AREA.</p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge Conservation Commission meetings are secret NOW before the fact, except for the date, with SOME POSSIBLE INFORMATION AFTER THE FACT.</p><p>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Caveat.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Related outrage. Beloved bald eagle poisoned.</p><p>Beloved bald eagle in next door Arlington killed by poisons.</p><p>The DCR (by its predecessor) and Cambridge started poisoning the banks of the Charles at about the same time they started deliberately starving the 42 year resident Charles River White Geese, 2008.</p><p>Here is a photo of the Charles River White Geese learning they were being starved by Cambridge. At the time the poisons were introduced.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmw2UXxjkaduYWz-nHaIooq5pLvezNgkNH0oMc12PiM0evFVEZM-Bn7BKl58ooXkBQhvISYYddyreoClHmM4lHyaALxH3LiZ0_rvQlIZJ65HfYh6z5AETXSK3tfGgZdH4IxgbqPO84gm6oSW7uHCrMwd0izEwYnpbeqNHqx7ffe6Dwtsspw/s150/Mag%20BEach,%2009-04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="150" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmw2UXxjkaduYWz-nHaIooq5pLvezNgkNH0oMc12PiM0evFVEZM-Bn7BKl58ooXkBQhvISYYddyreoClHmM4lHyaALxH3LiZ0_rvQlIZJ65HfYh6z5AETXSK3tfGgZdH4IxgbqPO84gm6oSW7uHCrMwd0izEwYnpbeqNHqx7ffe6Dwtsspw/w640-h482/Mag%20BEach,%2009-04.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The usual fraud was key. Cambridge and the DCR (including by its predecessor) brag of a supposedly holy Charles River Master Plan. Key in the Master Plan was a LAWN TO THE RIVER which was the usual fraud. </p><p>They starved the Charles River White Geese by introducing a bizarre wall at the river creating a situation where the Playing Fields might as well be ten miles inland. The important goal, however, attacking the beloved and now 43 year resident Charles River White Geese, was accomplished by the Starvation Wall. They kept the Charles River White Geese from the luscious grass on which they had fed and, if they got through the wall, by poisons such as those which killed that beloved Bald Eagle. Dead bees have been seen, obviously because of this outrage.</p><p>Here is a photo of the Starvation Wall from the early 2010's, taken from the Boston Side.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSC_ZkgZNv44W1SpMRL3XLu-82rKk11CFmnGUD2dBu1Tg8V2qIBa8xwfCNDr5F_rS9eSgr8ROUljzJHpZGzNUDC5cBPVkb9fFaci9p33j6YQX_zOkR3GvljJYJSHulNHNb08VDAsUTg3jHTfCqTGEHyMoADEu83d4c7I0eu5ADN6DzgzL9Q/s1600/After,%20from%20Boston,%202011%20QU%20-%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1600" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwSC_ZkgZNv44W1SpMRL3XLu-82rKk11CFmnGUD2dBu1Tg8V2qIBa8xwfCNDr5F_rS9eSgr8ROUljzJHpZGzNUDC5cBPVkb9fFaci9p33j6YQX_zOkR3GvljJYJSHulNHNb08VDAsUTg3jHTfCqTGEHyMoADEu83d4c7I0eu5ADN6DzgzL9Q/w640-h160/After,%20from%20Boston,%202011%20QU%20-%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The tiny opening has had multiple AND INCREASING obstacles constructed which perfects the heartlessness of the abuse.</p><p>The situation is so bad that the DCR has refused to promise not to introduce poisons on the Boston side of the Charles River in a coming park project ALSO IN A PRISTINE AREA, associated with the rebuilding of I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike).</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Related letter to destructive Cambridge City Council.</p><p>The Cambridge, MA, USA, City Council received our latest letter on the ongoing outrages at its recent regular meeting which allowed public comment. It may be read at: <a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3797&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3797&Inline=True</a>, Pages 266 to 290. I saw no action in the final actions of that meeting or in the agenda for February 6, 2023. I also see no change in the secrecy of activities on the Charles River in the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>The letter includes documentation on the poisoning of the Magazine Beach playing fields and goes into further analysis of the accelerating outrages. It runs over 20 pages, too large to really handle here. I have PDF copies (three files, too large for one) and would be pleased to provide them. Please contact me for the PDF’s at <a href="mailto:boblat@yahoo.com">boblat@yahoo.com</a>. </p><p>It starts with a slide summary as follows:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOppF9q763cW6PqH_OR_fdzC7b_-8fblWBcdSCYFjHel7iFE1qPpkOLOdNw1fmmMOAYNDVxmReM5AKBHO6qFJ6_-Cn_QVzwgCvcYLJlgXDnPXzthaOkYj4UMzD4SAbb6psY4ov_gY_ZfmzQ0sX_ZLI3JR4BZJzQ-pAWeCs_XI9Yq51NHTJ8w/s7014/01-20-22%20Consol%20Compl,%20p.1%20001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7014" data-original-width="5100" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOppF9q763cW6PqH_OR_fdzC7b_-8fblWBcdSCYFjHel7iFE1qPpkOLOdNw1fmmMOAYNDVxmReM5AKBHO6qFJ6_-Cn_QVzwgCvcYLJlgXDnPXzthaOkYj4UMzD4SAbb6psY4ov_gY_ZfmzQ0sX_ZLI3JR4BZJzQ-pAWeCs_XI9Yq51NHTJ8w/w466-h640/01-20-22%20Consol%20Compl,%20p.1%20001.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Charles River Poisoner, beloved by Cambridge government.</p><p>At the time the destructive duo started to starve the Charles River White Geese and to poison the Magazine Beach playing fields where they have lived and fed for most of the last 43 years, the two constructed expensive drainage to drain off the poisons.</p><p>Here is the created drainage in a still from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>, minute 10.26. Lining the Charles River is the Starvation Wall.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAgINJ4hoI7IK0165kZbFyKISlnoL5eOua8Wa_o5D1sxbfn_wFc0jJnpJ71LuTMg5vv_fXTmMQf9wZNZNJVNAHwMf9itKonTsnsoa7kN_yCrmlzfSDp8jIeps5jt59TOTXm9sBCjTOafAgdu2h77cALzzvUfrhr8PvZopB4V92W3sVBH3LQ/s1217/10.26%20Central%20Wall%20fm%20N.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="1217" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWAgINJ4hoI7IK0165kZbFyKISlnoL5eOua8Wa_o5D1sxbfn_wFc0jJnpJ71LuTMg5vv_fXTmMQf9wZNZNJVNAHwMf9itKonTsnsoa7kN_yCrmlzfSDp8jIeps5jt59TOTXm9sBCjTOafAgdu2h77cALzzvUfrhr8PvZopB4V92W3sVBH3LQ/w640-h198/10.26%20Central%20Wall%20fm%20N.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here is a sign posted by the state bragging about the drainage needed to keep their poisons out of the Charles River. They do not mention the fact that the poisons were introduced by them and Cambridge. </p><p>Three photos by Phil Barber, combined by me.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5qaH4AIAS90k5yym-kgJiW9-qIHZw26vxnk8VRbXXnn8z-zw8TunKgIUdkSDk-fttx7TNPhSca4HxRCmbNmb_ZmYLQJBqFQGMicSZROLyfTVs3OnMDSZO6VSH56XMXuDfVZY1rkYYwnhUTyyOwodizsZJjIICLZ4iZUpcBlleAI5XdGZZA/s763/07-27-21%20DCR%20Sign.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="763" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr5qaH4AIAS90k5yym-kgJiW9-qIHZw26vxnk8VRbXXnn8z-zw8TunKgIUdkSDk-fttx7TNPhSca4HxRCmbNmb_ZmYLQJBqFQGMicSZROLyfTVs3OnMDSZO6VSH56XMXuDfVZY1rkYYwnhUTyyOwodizsZJjIICLZ4iZUpcBlleAI5XdGZZA/w640-h478/07-27-21%20DCR%20Sign.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>A government contractor beloved by the Cambridge government, as a paid contractor for the DCR blocked the drainage using Trump / DCR funds and DCR provided “volunteers.” </p><p>Here is a photo of the blockage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJbx4ZU7t-Kn0vyMv-cmOMZA1HdO1N7WJFp7r9qjB-x9IlEDB-Vn7CUDpm1ER8JsRBrD5Wg0IMTo_STzyF-sopAXKNMWGEJ2aygDxQzo3SfYYaEUHROppYr8X-VWolwBOBNNsCbvgJVOwyMTwLkVtENK73KnZg6LjnXCQI_uo2e63YIWdyg/s960/IMG_2715.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUJbx4ZU7t-Kn0vyMv-cmOMZA1HdO1N7WJFp7r9qjB-x9IlEDB-Vn7CUDpm1ER8JsRBrD5Wg0IMTo_STzyF-sopAXKNMWGEJ2aygDxQzo3SfYYaEUHROppYr8X-VWolwBOBNNsCbvgJVOwyMTwLkVtENK73KnZg6LjnXCQI_uo2e63YIWdyg/w640-h480/IMG_2715.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The blue area near the top of the photo is the Charles River.</p><p>The following May, an algae pool appeared at the top of the “native” black plastic, to the left (in the picture) of the blockage. </p><p>Here is Phil Barber’s photo.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqPN8lZYFApy4_9A9nInDFH8Pq2Y_2BolvTNAGv76P_0bMVRpjThEOFXLUsBs9NNLMtxsfw_wdHmvf5SJJx2y2-DOv7SitntUfucBj9ZrXpyuyLFQcYvXqsJpgd8VAv6VVlRfw0hvI5yONMH7FxS8o6iCNCSeWRHN8JBiFUj6nZYXBU889qg/s750/Photo%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqPN8lZYFApy4_9A9nInDFH8Pq2Y_2BolvTNAGv76P_0bMVRpjThEOFXLUsBs9NNLMtxsfw_wdHmvf5SJJx2y2-DOv7SitntUfucBj9ZrXpyuyLFQcYvXqsJpgd8VAv6VVlRfw0hvI5yONMH7FxS8o6iCNCSeWRHN8JBiFUj6nZYXBU889qg/w640-h360/Photo%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The following September the filth had spread in the waters of the Charles River next to the blockage.</p><p>Here are TWO of a number of photos from Phil Barber of this outrage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_308rj0hJdgqdHqhpiOUh0QD33lzYqWP6E0vjcPE_JKVs0G4kl4xd271f3YiSEjg3dT2WU2q34vuXtCFWtUqRUSUhVPpUYi5W3ilIiYnhvH8H2K2IbgLzX8KCCua7EZzVm16L18UxRzRG3nk5Gigq1kJg0gOGj0T3Jy6KCwjP1fpRPKDtQ/s750/09-03-18%202%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp_308rj0hJdgqdHqhpiOUh0QD33lzYqWP6E0vjcPE_JKVs0G4kl4xd271f3YiSEjg3dT2WU2q34vuXtCFWtUqRUSUhVPpUYi5W3ilIiYnhvH8H2K2IbgLzX8KCCua7EZzVm16L18UxRzRG3nk5Gigq1kJg0gOGj0T3Jy6KCwjP1fpRPKDtQ/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33Oaen4jS0eijlPuvww64uvxYHxFW4wWEAZVZXFtPdZrfQIXQN0euFXysuCtg1wxOLd4l0U2jVllr8MYxIaieFWChD_Hmwi6N7fx5yLzcJNwIxS-k4VTMy6ny_pTcy-CpLtXtL5yHEFzfRp8lek_IIrPALxpmdfs1PkZCdhrvcPkSM5tm-A/s750/09-03-18%202%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33Oaen4jS0eijlPuvww64uvxYHxFW4wWEAZVZXFtPdZrfQIXQN0euFXysuCtg1wxOLd4l0U2jVllr8MYxIaieFWChD_Hmwi6N7fx5yLzcJNwIxS-k4VTMy6ny_pTcy-CpLtXtL5yHEFzfRp8lek_IIrPALxpmdfs1PkZCdhrvcPkSM5tm-A/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The following spring, the algae infestation had poisoned the Charles River below the Mass. Ave. Bridge, the next bridge east of the BU Bridge. A fake protective group close to the DCR started objecting.</p><p>Previous work by the DCR / Cambridge destroyed hundreds of mostly excellent trees in this area, with the support of that fake protective group. See my video at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Charles River Poisoner and friends designated as THE ONLY ENTITIES ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS IN THE AREA.</p><p>Advance PUBLIC REVIEWS of environmental projects are required.</p><p>Cambridge, through various maneuvers, has established that ONLY THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER AND FRIENDS ARE ALLOWED SUCH INFORMATION AND ESTABLISHED THAT ONLY THEY ARE ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MANDATORY REVIEW.</p><p>An ongoing DCR work has been apparently modified to split off the BU Bridge area possible outrages, </p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the destruction of the Wild Area, and </p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>the destruction of the Micro Center Grove, WHICH THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER AGREED TO YEARS AGO. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Charles River Poisoner gave the City Council a map showing the destruction she had agreed to years before the Cambridge City Council funded her to provide “environmental” assistance in the area..</p><p>Here are the outrages:</p><p>The Micro Center Grove:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQctAXo8eHBpDYw0mO1TbU9HPC3A8XrFWVlGHayD-OGUqyeUrZBHA9WN3txhOK5FDt7PuI2frbzwHH67DNs7eeVss_NiK-yOwpZOhrzBQUVvxv4xgjlrZT8JlnujWOA-Ukj-hyN9qLsW-4xNBOnCvXAeWm97DGm97HXdcx6n9Nh8RDbYsdtw/s796/IMG_2273,%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="796" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQctAXo8eHBpDYw0mO1TbU9HPC3A8XrFWVlGHayD-OGUqyeUrZBHA9WN3txhOK5FDt7PuI2frbzwHH67DNs7eeVss_NiK-yOwpZOhrzBQUVvxv4xgjlrZT8JlnujWOA-Ukj-hyN9qLsW-4xNBOnCvXAeWm97DGm97HXdcx6n9Nh8RDbYsdtw/w640-h522/IMG_2273,%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The Wild Area:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfowunqQzIeExJiwlJUAqPFvJ-I4zAPRqKm9vgXPRCioA2PGwDLfnN8_2vtzGnyHiOvFLD7T3yr-Ljt6gNl19pSipGdg4Jedt-VYJ8oG1Xko-p9izobAohtYBCOKibW8Qs224lp3tcAef-nOGPGxZiquG61oRiqeCl78ZB5lVgb0GTxYlrjg/s351/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="351" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfowunqQzIeExJiwlJUAqPFvJ-I4zAPRqKm9vgXPRCioA2PGwDLfnN8_2vtzGnyHiOvFLD7T3yr-Ljt6gNl19pSipGdg4Jedt-VYJ8oG1Xko-p9izobAohtYBCOKibW8Qs224lp3tcAef-nOGPGxZiquG61oRiqeCl78ZB5lVgb0GTxYlrjg/w640-h362/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Photo is from the BU Bridge. The railroad is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge. </p><p>To the left is the Destroyed Nesting Area, the ghetto to which the 43 year resident Charles River White Geese are heartlessly confined. The Destroyed Nesting Area was formerly lush with vegetation. Almost all of that vegetation has been heartlessly destroyed by the DCR and its friends.</p><p>The map provided by the Charles River Poisoner to the Cambridge City Council showing destruction supported by her showed the entire Magazine Beach Recreation Area. I have provided the entire map to the Cambridge City Council reproduced in three parts to make it readily understandable in letter format.</p><p>Here is the portion which includes the Micro Center grove blown up to focus on the Micro Center Grove.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGHv5NHSMuONJcggZ4PqDgROLtc0Zx8Tydm1FtmnYJXWeydjIP3iRTYNl5GhEmroxCxG425BI4WaVTdxWQME5fqFTDuVCINPnpF9t7edLrro48G-Kzb-_VoK7wa14SMmVRQpNI2bKo90-Mvlfd7G1h-brkDyLzDSE8Qe5GDWRncKMf2KugLA/s404/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2left%20crop%20to%20Grove%20plus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="399" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGHv5NHSMuONJcggZ4PqDgROLtc0Zx8Tydm1FtmnYJXWeydjIP3iRTYNl5GhEmroxCxG425BI4WaVTdxWQME5fqFTDuVCINPnpF9t7edLrro48G-Kzb-_VoK7wa14SMmVRQpNI2bKo90-Mvlfd7G1h-brkDyLzDSE8Qe5GDWRncKMf2KugLA/w632-h640/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2left%20crop%20to%20Grove%20plus.jpg" width="632" /></a></div><br /><p>The number 3 shows a parking lot where the Micro Center Grove currently stands. The facilities below it are the MDC bathhouse and swimming pool.</p><p>In 2017, a group of city councilors held a May Day celebration on City Hall’s front steps in which they lied of environmental sainthood. Their first motion of the night was to praise the DCR for its destructive plans on Magazine Beach and to offer financial support. <br /><br />The DCR’s plans to destroy 56 mostly excellent trees at Magazine Beach had already been filed with the Cambridge Conservation Commission. I spent more than a month collecting photos of the outrage, and, by my letter of June 6, 2017 passed on to the Cambridge City Council my edits of the CCC filing along with corresponding photos. That letter is posted at <a href="http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf">http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/agenda1.pdf</a>. Actual implementation is exceeding what was filed and is over 60. The MDC filing and my letter include the destruction of the Micro Center Grove and a lot more outrages.</p><p><br /></p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge Conservation Commission meetings are secret <b>NOW</b> before the fact, except for the date, with SOME POSSIBLE INFORMATION AFTER THE FACT.</p><p>My main source of information on actions in the BU Bridge area area affecting the Charles River and its banks has been the Cambridge Conservation Commission which reviews the plans.</p><p>I was deleted from the mailing list of meetings and stayed off that distribution in spite of written objection with signed receipt. </p><p>I have made multiple complaints of the censorship to the Cambridge City Council. The complaints have been ignored. Public meetings of entities would appear to be found on line through the web page of the City of Cambridge.</p><p>The Cambridge Conservation Commission <b>NOW</b> has a page on line. I found it in preparing this report. I found it on a Google search. That page was not available on any prior Google search. That is an “improvement” over the prior total secrecy.</p><p>The Cambridge Conservation Commission’s page <b>NOW</b> on line is at <a href="https://www.cambridgema.gov/Services/conservationcommission">https://www.cambridgema.gov/Services/conservationcommission</a>.</p><p>It has a link which provides only dates of meetings. So there is no choice in advance other than to physically attend every meeting to determine activities in advance.</p><p>The list also does not state the location of meetings. </p><p>The page <b>NOW</b> also has a link to videos. At last check, the only 2023 video was of January 23. The list says three meetings have occurred so far in 2023. A ZOOM link is provided, which works. The agenda shows at the beginning of the video. The agenda includes a link to register for a ZOOM. </p><p>There is no way to get the agenda in advance, and the ZOOM requires an access code which is in the agenda. Same maximum secrecy.</p><p>The video page list is <b>NOW</b> a page supposedly giving access to meeting minutes and videos.</p><p>Checking prior meetings, a meeting and video were listed for December 19, 2022. A pass code is required to see the ZOOM record. The passcode did not work. The minutes can be accessed through clicking on the date.</p><p>December 5, 2022. The ZOOM link and pass code do work. </p><p>When I have time, I will go back to see what I can find of the previously secret meetings.</p><p>So, it looks like, UNLESS A PARTICIPANT HAS INVITED “PUBLIC” participants, meetings are not open to the public, but <b>NOW</b> MAY BE FINDABLE AFTER THE FACT..</p><p><br /></p><p>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Caveat.</p><p>This report has been rewritten so extensively that I am gun shy.</p><p>Part of the situation is that I have tried to keep out of Cambridge political issues except for key environmental issues in areas where I see a chance for improvement. Organizational changes may have improved things. </p><p>Another part is that, over the years I have repeatedly griped about the same things. It is entirely possible that these gripes have taken hold. Another possible factor which comes into play is the SECRECY and duplicity which have been normal. I can only read so many minds. In particular, the letter I mention above and for which I reproduce the first page may have been important in the changes. The lead page summarizes the key issues in a simple slide. That simple slide could have communicated what pages of analysis did not get through.</p><p>Another matter of interest is that the bad apples scratch each other’s backs. The woman who led the key outrage in Harvard Square showed up to yell on the side of destroying the BU Bridge area. The Charles River Poisoner has started yelling in favor of a silly follow up zoning change initiated by the Harvard Square destroyer. That gives the APPEARANCE of “improvement” while actually changing none of the very terrible outrages done by the City Council on her prior Harvard Square upzoning .</p><p>The trouble in preparation of this report is that things have been changing during my writing of this report. The changes ARE NOT SUBSTANTIVE. But the SECRECY and duplicity have been aided by the structural situation. The Cambridge City Council hides behind this secrecy and duplicity.</p><p>That said, I am doing the best I can do.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-17754381782216260312023-02-09T13:24:00.013-05:002023-02-18T13:09:48.551-05:00The Charles River White Geese and the Big Chill<p> The Charles River White Geese and the Big Chill</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Visit.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A past freeze.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Summary.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>General.</p><p>The Charles River was in the middle of a record setting deep cold for several days.</p><p>Knowing the Charles River White Geese, I knew they had a place to survive, the bay next to the Wild Area. I have visited and gotten some photos of them AFTER THE CHILL in the Destroyed Nesting Area.</p><p>Here is a drone still of the area from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>, Minute 9.10.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG04mrB1TX2mmqVUxJ0A0BR3CuVHa0sMb7fORdd2KvEiqiXANS5kfqVufxIYeJzUsykw8LmFIEJOEyso4_zL8pVeqBDvA5nnAnu9XntmB33yUzlSv5B7cVBB1p-FALzKdGSj5ujYVG5rKhGVMWoV7tJ8ETwm5VpSFcjWmyQJa43cc9oL9WA/s363/09-10.Bay%20of%20Protection.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="327" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG04mrB1TX2mmqVUxJ0A0BR3CuVHa0sMb7fORdd2KvEiqiXANS5kfqVufxIYeJzUsykw8LmFIEJOEyso4_zL8pVeqBDvA5nnAnu9XntmB33yUzlSv5B7cVBB1p-FALzKdGSj5ujYVG5rKhGVMWoV7tJ8ETwm5VpSFcjWmyQJa43cc9oL9WA/w576-h640/09-10.Bay%20of%20Protection.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><br /><p>At the top is the BU Bridge. To the right is Memorial Drive. Coming at an angle from the upper left is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge. Between the Grand Junction Railroad and the BU Bridge is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. Below the Grand Junction Railroad is the doomed Wild Area. The City of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation have been trying to destroy the Wild Area since at least 1985. I have been fighting them all the way, with a lot of success.</p><p>Barely visible at the bottom are boat ramps associated with the BU Boathouse.</p><p>The bay in the Charles River to the left of the Wild Area is protected from freezing by heat which seems to stretch from the BU Boathouse. That is where the Charles River White Geese go during the worst of weather. Since the water is not freezing, it is quite a bit warmer than the air.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Visit.</p><p>Here are two photos I took of the Charles River White Geese in the Destroyed Nesting Area after the Big Chill.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkGn7h-T0R1E8wYKdFMkm86AfwIqc0U64iu_Oq-5npgK-BX9m6NcJ9mOuIVJCYzR8WnlOlGjbKCg8P00A-hwm3S6YmUWg77oOkysNlg9xVvQgnGV7ZNdrowDoeQjoOuf-htavKXXjC--EvWnA41F6ZMiHUf8DaEUP6W_8Iq1xKm60lDYWCQ/s1080/Geese%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkGn7h-T0R1E8wYKdFMkm86AfwIqc0U64iu_Oq-5npgK-BX9m6NcJ9mOuIVJCYzR8WnlOlGjbKCg8P00A-hwm3S6YmUWg77oOkysNlg9xVvQgnGV7ZNdrowDoeQjoOuf-htavKXXjC--EvWnA41F6ZMiHUf8DaEUP6W_8Iq1xKm60lDYWCQ/w640-h480/Geese%2001.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3nHXMU1PIhF4i-AgM2hfz08nNxUmnZIdFO_dO6nPeMGxQ6XV2MWsXhUW1_h9gkP8HxVv1Tr7UjPuZlqN8lidHkCsNwW5LHhgoH5HvpOlrSbZ7phNTIo9L_ve0TQopjwG3qPYQQS7BYfvXHEI2d6Wz24x5wddXxLx9lLqw_C0h2Ai0YAqhQ/s1080/Geese%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3nHXMU1PIhF4i-AgM2hfz08nNxUmnZIdFO_dO6nPeMGxQ6XV2MWsXhUW1_h9gkP8HxVv1Tr7UjPuZlqN8lidHkCsNwW5LHhgoH5HvpOlrSbZ7phNTIo9L_ve0TQopjwG3qPYQQS7BYfvXHEI2d6Wz24x5wddXxLx9lLqw_C0h2Ai0YAqhQ/w640-h480/Geese%2002.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Both photos show the Grand Junction Railroad on top of the hill. The second also includes the Charles River. The Charles River still included a lot of ice sheets.</p><p>Here is a photo of the bay next to the Wild Area. The shot was through the Wild Area from the edge of the Grand Junction Railroad. This photo was taken during the same visit.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2ocgTJruCopXNILX-X0r1A5mmuaVq35eYhv1Kr5nxwLWqq8lpIC827mDji4lOCxXUO3-39UdI2Rgz0Kzuxf23YhuhVlT0d9ZDcpdv1fSuL-IMl0GCtWr-BFCNmth0DjirLDROdcqT3h5pTjjIbwh-LfTfHQJisIw6IFNCYr0InhntQWCjw/s1080/Bay%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE2ocgTJruCopXNILX-X0r1A5mmuaVq35eYhv1Kr5nxwLWqq8lpIC827mDji4lOCxXUO3-39UdI2Rgz0Kzuxf23YhuhVlT0d9ZDcpdv1fSuL-IMl0GCtWr-BFCNmth0DjirLDROdcqT3h5pTjjIbwh-LfTfHQJisIw6IFNCYr0InhntQWCjw/w640-h480/Bay%2002.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The continuing ice sheet is still visible along with unfrozen water in which the Charles River White Geese obtained protection from the extreme cold.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A past freeze.</p><p>Here is a photo of the Charles River White Geese in the bay during a prior deep freeze.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_cOPNf8QLrZPKdouZxnu3mxV-ZEXtly98fuYHt7oDQ5hDgn4qoJ2kuJs3BHyuNoUcqOk3KeAtu6pTNfAj4EAmGJSxeVTJKHN0DzXuReZGAuJ-YykvhXWyu7h4jHJRywVHf0XrVr_a2qP395MYHNg3Gc0NOkC4OMtXvdxbjP5RZzQ55mt6mQ/s960/IMG_1856.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_cOPNf8QLrZPKdouZxnu3mxV-ZEXtly98fuYHt7oDQ5hDgn4qoJ2kuJs3BHyuNoUcqOk3KeAtu6pTNfAj4EAmGJSxeVTJKHN0DzXuReZGAuJ-YykvhXWyu7h4jHJRywVHf0XrVr_a2qP395MYHNg3Gc0NOkC4OMtXvdxbjP5RZzQ55mt6mQ/w640-h480/IMG_1856.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The white figures are the Charles River White Geese. The boat docks from the BU Boathouse are visible. Even on my visit, the free water was quite a bit smaller this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Summary.</p><p>In my most recent post, at <a href="http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/animal-abuse-starving-continues-and.html">http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/animal-abuse-starving-continues-and.html</a>, I provided a summary slide which led my detailed complaint to the Cambridge City Council by demanding that the Massachusetts Department on Conservation and Recreation be replaced on the Charles River by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation because of the destructiveness and incompetence of the DCR.</p><p>These photos show the vile behavior of the DCR. Since 2008 or so when Cambridge and the DCR started poisoning and blocking access from the Charles River to the playing fields at Magazine Beach, deliberate starvation, the Destroyed Nesting Area has been the ghetto to which the Charles River White Geese have been confined. The Destroyed Nesting Area was lush with vegetation.</p><p>The extreme vileness of the DCR directly and through their friends, has destroyed most of that FOOD as well, and replaced the food with dirt and crushed stone. The mess in which the Charles River White Geese are confined WAS DELIBERATELY CREATED from lushness by the DCR.</p><p>The last report provides links to my 21 page latest summary to the Cambridge City Council of this outrage. I am also pleased to provide PDF’s of that report, since the Cambridge files are a problem hunting through. Please contact me at <a href="mailto:boblat@yahoo.com">boblat@yahoo.com</a>.<br /><br />One excuse for destruction was to put a subway through the area. That is proven the usual level of nonsense because the Cambridge supported subway alternative requires moving a commuter rail stop from next to Fenway Park to a block from the core of the Boston University Campus. WITH MY HELP, that outrage has been defeated. </p><p>The report includes the current state of that station, including the massive buildings which are part of that project. The alternative Subway line WHICH WAS MY IDEA is the clear winner. Destruction of the Wild Area rather clearly no longer has the subway as a viable excuse. </p><p>Also in the City Council letter is my map of an alternative which I have proposed which would be a sane alternative to the Cambridge nuttiness and self-destruction.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-84339745075255403092023-01-22T12:09:00.001-05:002023-01-22T12:09:14.350-05:00Animal abuse / starving continues and accelerates on the Charles along with tree and environmental destruction. . . . The Harm and the SECRECY must end .<p> RE:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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 .</p><p>The Cambridge, MA, USA, City Council will be receiving our letter with the above title on January 23, 2023. It may be read at: <a href="https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3797&Inline=True">https://cambridgema.iqm2.com/citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=1&ID=3797&Inline=True</a>, Pages 266 to 290.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>You definitely can read the letter at the above URL. It is a bit awkward to access.</p><p>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 <a href="mailto:boblat@yahoo.com">boblat@yahoo.com</a>. 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.</p><p>Here is the first page of the letter. It amounts to a summary in slide format. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGtWsBnn7L5dgCEa1PG2lZr6Gvi7IA2xRmeFAwNDtvNI40zBPL9sautildLDNZXqSTVm2vwuz_0Qs1ZXBeW2njbjfJ9OTvmXbomoQl2USIKHrk-_EivQjg1lkH_QDYs0d68vL9soz6l3C26Vq75QWILP0-Z_8cGORXVnElkqKyTXdl0Zf0A/s7014/01-20-22%20Consol%20Compl,%20p.1%20001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7014" data-original-width="5100" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmGtWsBnn7L5dgCEa1PG2lZr6Gvi7IA2xRmeFAwNDtvNI40zBPL9sautildLDNZXqSTVm2vwuz_0Qs1ZXBeW2njbjfJ9OTvmXbomoQl2USIKHrk-_EivQjg1lkH_QDYs0d68vL9soz6l3C26Vq75QWILP0-Z_8cGORXVnElkqKyTXdl0Zf0A/w466-h640/01-20-22%20Consol%20Compl,%20p.1%20001.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><p>And here, copied from the off line copy of page 2, is the index:</p><p>RE:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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 .</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introductory Explanation</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Base Communications.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge Conservation Commission Secrecy. No public communication of activities.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pattern of secrecy and destruction in City Council Votes.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Secrecy of votes is used to keep Constituents from knowledge. </p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“New” dock and Starvation Wall Games make destruction unchanged or worse than the destruction of the 2000's. Animal abuse rather clearly is key.</p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Openings” in the Starvation Wall that DCR is now bragging about are nonsense.</p><p>D.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The amount of tree destruction documentation achieved and still planned in our files and our letters is overwhelming. </p><p>E.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Activities further west continue antipathy toward ground vegetation and toward healthy trees.</p><p>F.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Destruction of key trees at the Pedestrian Overpass Just one Example of Way too Much Destruction.</p><p>5.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Her Record As a government contractor in multiple instances.</p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Destruction pending on the MicroCenter Grove.</p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The poisoning of the Charles River as an agent of the Department of Conservation and Recreation with the assistance of the City of Cambridge.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Her Record as a supposed community activist.</p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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</p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.</p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>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.</p><p>6.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Some related events.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Landsdowne Station / the Wild Area.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A reasonable alternative to destructiveness by Cambridge.</p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Better connections by a Green Line A spur connecting Comm. Ave. at the BU Bridge to Harvard.</p><p>7.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Attachments.</p><p>P.S.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lack of Fitness of DCR..</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-75123663987060205642023-01-16T11:44:00.001-05:002023-01-16T11:49:50.984-05:00 Responses to my 1/14/23 post based on Phil Barber photo<p> Responses to my 1/14/23 post based on Phil Barber photo, </p><p>More Tree Destruction by the City of Cambridge, <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/more-tree-destruction-by-city-of.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/more-tree-destruction-by-city-of.html</a>. </p><p>* * * *</p><p>George Despotes, 1/15/23</p><p>Would you care to propose legislation?</p><p>My response:</p><p>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.</p><p>* * * *</p><p>Dory Piccard Dickson, 1/15/23 on photo of Wild Area</p><p>This does NOT sound like conservation, or look like it! ):</p><p>My response:</p><p>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.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-55601352418281493712023-01-14T18:20:00.004-05:002023-01-14T19:30:12.225-05:00More Tree Destruction by The City of Cambridge<p><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">Report from Phil, January 10, 2023</span></p><p><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">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.</span></p><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">Pic below taken today.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3p7szT5t6TuEsU6sfq5k1RiERf7WLr2E265Hj47rc4I5gH2RDs6v1MJo7qD5kvzJ7Km_EEaETRIPUjC6tw1XUYOkYxa0ebc8tcYuWR3robj3LATneRrLuJWo7m4EjLQCBFG9PYI0aw_i2byAlrr_WOJ-ymNa5Jhddhz4p7vFmxnzsgOnIw/s800/01-10-22%20Tubman%20Park,%20Phil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC3p7szT5t6TuEsU6sfq5k1RiERf7WLr2E265Hj47rc4I5gH2RDs6v1MJo7qD5kvzJ7Km_EEaETRIPUjC6tw1XUYOkYxa0ebc8tcYuWR3robj3LATneRrLuJWo7m4EjLQCBFG9PYI0aw_i2byAlrr_WOJ-ymNa5Jhddhz4p7vFmxnzsgOnIw/w640-h360/01-10-22%20Tubman%20Park,%20Phil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />* * * *</span><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">Fits a pattern.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">Cambridge and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation have been particularly brutal in their destruction of fruit trees on the Charles River.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">Reprehensible and lying of sainthood.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">See our video on the outrage on the Charles at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a></span><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">.</span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">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.</span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Now threatened on the Charles:<br /><br />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.</span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigl2mN2FjoTc8DC201FW7h9agomQAoqri7wHxdQBpkG4RI5On35lSFG3kig9CJFJNojPvYVAVgREveR8R-r5QSZ7df54A4KxzIR47w0-Rob7aOqo5u0xBazuw07Bnyn_tn7szZkK3vF2W73i7K4uqEEWL9wAB-l7SHCxc1W2MJ3Veza3mG0Q/s796/IMG_2273,%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="796" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigl2mN2FjoTc8DC201FW7h9agomQAoqri7wHxdQBpkG4RI5On35lSFG3kig9CJFJNojPvYVAVgREveR8R-r5QSZ7df54A4KxzIR47w0-Rob7aOqo5u0xBazuw07Bnyn_tn7szZkK3vF2W73i7K4uqEEWL9wAB-l7SHCxc1W2MJ3Veza3mG0Q/w640-h522/IMG_2273,%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 13px;">Here is another SECRET target..</span></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">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.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;">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.</span></div><div><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicL9x3UMnAbq-75qYhzRVOd98HGIiS3zhQX94pa7aatX2Qmss4hXCogB_Unx7KPvJJ5qq_BdSwGA1DTkScoUkozM9li3bucimx_LIlYQ8WG_Y6YQ0-6XFPodjG12f8rUCYJHP9euEFhn9Ym1nDczetRLrbfH0GJGlDIMNjQMtr--mtswEzNw/s351/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="351" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicL9x3UMnAbq-75qYhzRVOd98HGIiS3zhQX94pa7aatX2Qmss4hXCogB_Unx7KPvJJ5qq_BdSwGA1DTkScoUkozM9li3bucimx_LIlYQ8WG_Y6YQ0-6XFPodjG12f8rUCYJHP9euEFhn9Ym1nDczetRLrbfH0GJGlDIMNjQMtr--mtswEzNw/w640-h362/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div> </div><div>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.</div><div><br /></div><div>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. <br /><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1d2228; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-51780969449778586812022-12-08T12:21:00.007-05:002022-12-08T12:21:51.628-05:00Cambridge City Council Communication Censored by City Clerk’s Office?<p>Cambridge City Council Communication Censored by City Clerk’s Office?</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Situation.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Follow on communication.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The History.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Situation.</p><p>My last blog post presented a distressing report which was the blog version of a letter which SHOULD HAVE BEEN received by the Cambridge City Council on Monday. It is posted at: <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-terrible-dcr-falsely-claims.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-terrible-dcr-falsely-claims.html</a>. </p><p>The letter was damning. Unfortunately, damning situations are altogether too normal with regard to the Charles River in the habitat of the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>The Cambridge City Council has recently changed its policies on timing of delivery to the Cambridge City Clerk of communications to be received at its Monday meeting. The deadline used to be 3 pm the preceding Thursday. The change made the deadline 12 pm the preceding Thursday. The letter was received AND STAMPED AS RECEIVED at 11:41 am the preceding Thursday. Here is a copy of the acknowledgment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIrlXKmU-JNbBwG2vqlmbOelz3EFGDBX40OYnG9rS7vLLgsomuJZ50_Q3-eq6QJFkYGYe0f6XgDItFIkuxM6VLZSeZm2nk5l3Z08EODIJfuAuoxHXWRHO005mj3wMQvD2FB2PyGweHuDQCiqazFemAjrHFDTqZHonzQqxDN3ysQ428wZbZg/s5845/12-1-22%20ltr%202%20001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5845" data-original-width="4250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLIrlXKmU-JNbBwG2vqlmbOelz3EFGDBX40OYnG9rS7vLLgsomuJZ50_Q3-eq6QJFkYGYe0f6XgDItFIkuxM6VLZSeZm2nk5l3Z08EODIJfuAuoxHXWRHO005mj3wMQvD2FB2PyGweHuDQCiqazFemAjrHFDTqZHonzQqxDN3ysQ428wZbZg/w466-h640/12-1-22%20ltr%202%20001.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><p>At about 9 pm on December 5, 2022, I checked the city council agenda for the meeting which was then ongoing or had been completed. I checked the list of communications carefully and repeatedly. </p><p>My communication did not appear.</p><p>At the upper right hand corner is the City Clerk Office’s date stamp, December 1, 2022, 11:41 am.</p><p>The list of communications is all that most people are aware of in the agendas.</p><p>The communications presented to the City Council are, of necessity in different format than appear in the various posting on line. I have a PDF copy of the City Council submission. PDF copies are very much not compatible with efficient on line practices, but I would be pleased to provide the PDF of the communication which did not reach the City Council. Please email me at boblat@yahoo.com. Make your request clear in the subject line. Junk mail is a nightmare, and communications from new names stand a very good chance of being trashed.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Follow on communication.</p><p>December 6, 2022, I delivered a city council communication to the City Clerk’s office. As has been my custom, I co-addressed the communication to the City Manager and the City Clerk. This communication acknowledged “cc”’s to the City Clerk and City Solicitor.</p><p>The communication read:</p><p>* * * *</p><p>RE:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yet another properly filed document CENSORED from the City Council Agenda.</p><p>Enclosed is the first page of a 20 page document (including attachments) filed with, stamped by and accepted by the City Clerk at 11:49 am on December 1, 2022, clearly ahead of the 12:00 pm deadline to get in the City Council agenda for December 5, 2022</p><p>It is not there. The rules modifications are very clear. This fits a REPEATED FAILURE of the City Clerk’s Office to fulfill its duty to process our communications in a clear manner, including making the full public notice required thereof. </p><p>In the past, our communications have repeatedly been CENSORED by hiding them in all sort of bizarre locations. Nightmares have delayed communications as much as a month at particular time.</p><p>This repeated censorship fits the established practice of HIDING actions in this part of the Charles River from the public and the public record. As PARTIALLY objected to in this CENSORED letter.</p><p>Outrageous.</p><p>We object!!!!</p><p>* * * *</p><p>The title used the word “CENSORED.” There is no intention to state whether censorship was deliberate or accidental. The reality is that it was censored.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The History.</p><p>The censored letter included two attachments. Both are included in the blog post.</p><p>Attachment 1 is a PARTIAL résumé of my activities in the most politically controversial part of the City of Cambridge. Here is that attachment.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJQaFQg1Kw8hbvw6up-vChUhECLEVrHUjCY6j9ohPukJxB8NDcsROJQliVT0Y4xQXsivtNFxNc0KcDm5W8TDrlvWH0_jzcECspPFYjA9L2NIzhPIEfG0aELbOqIhsbMS5jRDNbdThmop9YHL8VxW7fdqB6YQ22_fVY3XwWXR7oA4vC2JHbw/s3507/Table,%20Activist%20R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20Red.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzJQaFQg1Kw8hbvw6up-vChUhECLEVrHUjCY6j9ohPukJxB8NDcsROJQliVT0Y4xQXsivtNFxNc0KcDm5W8TDrlvWH0_jzcECspPFYjA9L2NIzhPIEfG0aELbOqIhsbMS5jRDNbdThmop9YHL8VxW7fdqB6YQ22_fVY3XwWXR7oA4vC2JHbw/w466-h640/Table,%20Activist%20R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20Red.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOOgwPb2jPH6Cq0_aT9jKOV5vd2523-fpo7tZbwvADP1zCoKdxEuhy6Ssw1dgCIJ6pzfrxTVXRrLlRD42JnbCoDdKgYED9lUT32t3qE2w1-x_ECwOToQ6rgGOBIKOEJ6s_Zpv9_ZMQ2cpyoa1l9MB-44WamTIUI95GR3QDZYt-euLxl2p2Q/s3289/JFK%20-%20City%20Hall,%20Mellen%20Marked%20U,%20reduced%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2530" data-original-width="3289" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOOgwPb2jPH6Cq0_aT9jKOV5vd2523-fpo7tZbwvADP1zCoKdxEuhy6Ssw1dgCIJ6pzfrxTVXRrLlRD42JnbCoDdKgYED9lUT32t3qE2w1-x_ECwOToQ6rgGOBIKOEJ6s_Zpv9_ZMQ2cpyoa1l9MB-44WamTIUI95GR3QDZYt-euLxl2p2Q/w640-h492/JFK%20-%20City%20Hall,%20Mellen%20Marked%20U,%20reduced%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Since 1974, I have been active in Cambridge politics with emphasis on planning issues, property use and transportation.</p><p>My first zoning activity was in 1978. The résumé has two pages. The first page is a table which functions as an explanation of the second page, which is a map of the Harvard Square - Central Square portion of Cambridge including residential neighborhoods above and below Massachusetts Avenue, which street connects the two squares.</p><p>The upper left corner of the map has inserted several blocks north of Harvard Square directly north of Harvard Law School and including residence halls. That area is also abuts Leslie University. That area was my first experience in zoning. I worked together with residents to protect a small scale neighborhood (by Cambridge standards) of housing threatened by expansion both by Leslie and Harvard. It was a major victory.</p><p>In the years since then, I helped out many neighborhood groups. A key factor in our activities AT ALL TIMES has been to keep the groups separate from “neighborhood associations” recognized by the City of Cambridge in the areas. This separation is needed from fear of destructive membership, to put it mildly.</p><p>The people I advised have had strong records of achieving their goals. People dealing with recognized neighborhood associations too often have achieved the opposite of their goals.</p><p>In my activities, I have kept an eye on the composition of the Cambridge City Council. My activities always allowed for the proclivities of members on issues of interest to me. I advised people to avoid “bad” city councils and to approach “good” city councils.</p><p>City Councils have varied from election to election. The thing that has not varied has been the office of the City Clerk. The City Clerk’s office simply and professionally did their job. UNTIL AFTER THE RETIREMENT OF DONNA LOPEZ.</p><p>Since then, THINGS HAVE HAPPENED WHICH SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED. It is impossible to say where the problem is. It could be in an employee or employees in the office. It could be in the City Clerk position. It could be in the failure of the City Clerk position to supervise employees. Donna was the last of a series of internal promotions. Thus Donna knew how the office had been run. Donna’s first successor was external and thus was not familiar with practices. The name of the latest City Clerk is not familiar to me. I do not know if she is external or an internal promotion.</p><p>The reality, however, is that communications NEVER DISAPPEARED OR HAD BIZARRE HANDLINGS before the retirement of Donna Lopez. Communications were automatically presented to the City Council at its next meeting as long as deadlines were met. A communication which missed the deadline would be presented at the following meeting.</p><p>Since Donna’s retirement, there have been difficulties getting communications to the City Council. Mishandlings have suddenly appeared which NEVER occurred before Donna’s retirement. I had a communication which took a month to get to the City Council and the City Council’s PUBLIC list of communications.</p><p>People might not know the exact details of the communications in the list, but they knew there was something there, and could find the communication should they go to the effort.</p><p>The communication which did not make the list of communications is damning. And SOMEHOW it did not make the list of communications</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-87451518294645226592022-12-03T17:16:00.001-05:002022-12-04T10:17:57.793-05:00The terrible DCR falsely claims sainthood on the Charles, ONCE AGAIN.<p>The terrible DCR falsely claims sainthood on the Charles, ONCE AGAIN.</p><p>The following report was submitted in hard copy on December 1, 2022 to the Cambridge City Manager, and to the Cambridge City Clerk for the Cambridge City Council’s December 5, 2002 meeting, with a copy mailed to the Chair of the Cambridge Department of Public Works. Format and corresponding references are modified to fit the needs of this blog.</p><p>* * * * </p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phil Barber reports</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Value,” coming destruction.</p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Partial History of the Shore of the Charles River at Magazine Beach. The playing fields, the area Phil’s sign lies of concern about.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DCR and Cambridge poisoned the Charles River through the Government Contractor who is pawned off as supposedly the TOTAL sum of interested people concerning the Charles River in this area.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The area being “protected.” according to the DCR propaganda / sign.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ADDENDUM:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge Conservation Commission Meetings look like they have been essentially secret to the public since the beginning of 2022 or earlier.</p><p>Attachments:. The writer’s partial activist résumé; the last known depiction of DCR irresponsible plans at Magazine Beach. See below.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phil Barber reports</p><p>Two Reports Edited and combined for better understanding by the Reader:</p><p>* * * *</p><p>There is a new sign at the fenced in area of the Magazine Beach playing fields- but no trees of the mentioned species were planted there (or were there originally) and the planted shrubs died from neglect the same season they were planted, what was it, four years ago.</p><p>[ed: here is the copy of the sign included in the report.]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshaTLNbUEfb8LyOf4wdR5KL45g4g-M7EVR5A3FYS_Glzr2b1p-wafVlz7VTir14uw8ytQ9EVELbS1OTpmwuUBPygSsXwpfqR7JrnDVpre_DRmPwfGkma9QHVAwquZORVESD9zDhzAxtFWEWvvR8KVEMUrF2Pl-qMge0IbDZfxsRP1LazUZw/s800/11-15-22%20DCR%20Restoration%20Photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgshaTLNbUEfb8LyOf4wdR5KL45g4g-M7EVR5A3FYS_Glzr2b1p-wafVlz7VTir14uw8ytQ9EVELbS1OTpmwuUBPygSsXwpfqR7JrnDVpre_DRmPwfGkma9QHVAwquZORVESD9zDhzAxtFWEWvvR8KVEMUrF2Pl-qMge0IbDZfxsRP1LazUZw/s320/11-15-22%20DCR%20Restoration%20Photo.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Blames "goose droppings" for river pollution too.</p><p>However did nature manage before we came along?!</p><p>They also put up another sign about "invasives" and the need to police them lest they "crowd out native species". What utter nonsense. This isn't a pristine natural wetland, it's manmade landfill in the heart of a most unnatural ecosystem, a human city. Whatever flourishes there on its own accord is the native species! People can be such egomaniacal idiots. In every handful of soil at Magazine Beach there are literally billions of living organisms, 99.99% of which are unknown to science.</p><p>A third sign invites people to notice the bark on shrubs chewed on by cute little bunnies in the winter in their desperate struggle not to starve to death in the dying season. Look for signs of native animals, it says. The ones they also think they have the right to regulate. Pretty little songbirds, lovely, rats, evil!</p><p>One thing on that first sign, it does mention cottonwoods. It's vexed me no end that the idiots identify that stand of big cottonwoods as poplars in their plans. Not a small thing in my opinion for these dedicated nature buffs to make such a carelessly mistaken observation.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Value,” coming destruction.</p><p>It is extremely difficult to nicely analyze the behavior of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Cambridge City Council, together with the supporting bastions of great language at Mass. Audubon and other lovely sounding entities.</p><p>Here is my video of the construction on the Charles River of which the latest outrages are a continuation <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. This outrage was supported by lovely sounding entities.</p><p>The most important concept to understand is the word “value” as used by the construction lobby and friends of the construction lobby to which these entities pay homage.</p><p>“Value” in this world is value to a contractor. </p><p>[Ed: Red text box enclosed the following. Then resumed in normal text.</p><p>* * * *</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WHO MADE MONEY HERE?</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WHO CAN MAKE MONEY HERE?</p><p>* * * *</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ANYTHING WHICH DOES NOT PROVIDE MONEY TO THE CONTRACTORS HAS NO “VALUE” IN THEIR WORLD.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Things which “lack value” are things which grow or live WITHOUT CONTRACTORS MAKING MONEY.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>EXISTING, MAGNIFICENT TREES AND FREE ANIMALS PROVIDE NO MONEY TO CONTRACTORS. </p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>IN THIS WORLD, EXCELLENT TREES, VEGETATION AND ANIMALS HAVE NO “VALUE.” BECAUSE NO CONTRACTOR IS MAKING MONEY FROM THEM.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>AS FAR AS THE CONTRACTORS ARE CONCERNED, THOSE EXCELLENT TREES, VEGETATION AND ANIMALS ARE IN THE WAY OF CONTRACTORS MAKING MONEY.</p><p>●<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SO DESTROY THEM, WHICH IS WHAT THE DCR AND CAMBRIDGE AND FRIENDS ARE DOING AND HAVE BEEN DOING.</p><p>My video of the beginning of this accelerating outrage shows their SICK value system in operation in January 2016. It is posted at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. This video includes destruction of the excellent Wild Area to the east of the BU Bridge in addition to the accomplished destruction of hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridges. They did not get it done then, it seems to be targeted now. Comments in the video about outrages coming at the Magazine Beach playing fields have been started and worse.</p><p>The area destroyed in January 2016 was planned to run from the BU Bridge to the Longfellow Bridge, the second bridge east of the BU Bridge. For unknown reasons, the area nearest the BU Bridge was not destroyed THEN.</p><p>We will proceed with stills from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>. This first still is from minute 9.28.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiNxmqAri9lX51FNdVMiCvwNUbiRIa6d26b8LyliL1hqR9z7VKC629cXLBmGCZkaYw9Hcmr_DQ2JSvRiubJ1p5Zdjyz3JEKd30-KQv1tZKeEO_4Im7jjDVQ8WnthX5efqvkQrKq0DkGWulVcHVZ3gjKepJkfrJ2D0FMhyI_QLInBQYpQjBMw/s1366/09-28%20GJ%20straight%20up%20to%20MIT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiNxmqAri9lX51FNdVMiCvwNUbiRIa6d26b8LyliL1hqR9z7VKC629cXLBmGCZkaYw9Hcmr_DQ2JSvRiubJ1p5Zdjyz3JEKd30-KQv1tZKeEO_4Im7jjDVQ8WnthX5efqvkQrKq0DkGWulVcHVZ3gjKepJkfrJ2D0FMhyI_QLInBQYpQjBMw/w640-h360/09-28%20GJ%20straight%20up%20to%20MIT.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The B.U. Bridge is slightly off camera below the bottom of the still. The first bridge above it is the Mass. Ave. Bridge. Barely visible beyond it is the Longfellow Bridge. Hundreds of mostly excellent trees as shown in the video were destroyed in this area.</p><p>Under the latest games, the Cambridge City Council looks like it is working with the DCR to destroy this thick woods, the Wild Area, through maneuvers which remove its destruction from public view. By the bizarre definitions which exist in this world, the ONLY “public” review will be by a government contractor who POISONED THE CHARLES RIVER as agent for the DCR with help from the City of Cambridge. Although she might invite some friends to rubber stamp her.</p><p>The building to the right of the Wild Area in this photo is across Memorial Drive from the bottom building in the above still.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh737Pvo-VKzXBqTP47oBP7GNEG5ncMRA3E7TJRSCwPVfZRNAfY4t5D-2Rq8o6h4JBu1vsUybMZgzA7lLnluaaDLPDibcqGPFNjABIo3NT6nbAXaxOZZDl_PVs_N8TkTA8bEmpBhkpPHIeofSAuf_njYO_mBVxen3LPhTBfEI45ElT9XLbtJA/s351/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="351" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh737Pvo-VKzXBqTP47oBP7GNEG5ncMRA3E7TJRSCwPVfZRNAfY4t5D-2Rq8o6h4JBu1vsUybMZgzA7lLnluaaDLPDibcqGPFNjABIo3NT6nbAXaxOZZDl_PVs_N8TkTA8bEmpBhkpPHIeofSAuf_njYO_mBVxen3LPhTBfEI45ElT9XLbtJA/w640-h362/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The figures in the water are a group of the Charles River White Geese hunting for food.</p><p>Here, from minute 1.59 above the river is the EASTERN portion of the area currently being targeted by the DCR and the Cambridge City Council. For most of the last 42 years, this was the main land habitat of the tourist and resident loved Charles River White Geese. </p><p>To the far right, beyond the BU Bridge is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and the Wild Area. The Charles River White Geese went to their nesting area in the spring and for protection against bad weather. Their habitat extended about over about a mile of the Charles River and its banks centered on the BU Bridge.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCPeMnfWldI_CjviExWocw-GfXAacMiAxBRd914MBDyKVgTTGEazzpvigTIlIvWgEH-ZqRonpPdZDOtOb20k-1vDcIY9vVTtplNNJUgTmN-nOMxiayOhY-3h6UdV9nX9FGOv_MbUn2Nk3ZP6LYxz39-9u469E_HfH6GnfpgyYQjmN_ZOA-g/s1197/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="1197" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOCPeMnfWldI_CjviExWocw-GfXAacMiAxBRd914MBDyKVgTTGEazzpvigTIlIvWgEH-ZqRonpPdZDOtOb20k-1vDcIY9vVTtplNNJUgTmN-nOMxiayOhY-3h6UdV9nX9FGOv_MbUn2Nk3ZP6LYxz39-9u469E_HfH6GnfpgyYQjmN_ZOA-g/w640-h350/1.59%20S%20Oiik%20-%20BU%20B%20Hse%20-%20Chaff.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Here is a photo of part of the tourist and resident loved gaggle during the winter admiring the Charles from their Destroyed Nesting Area. They are standing under the railroad bridge, which is visible above their heads. Below the White Geese are visiting Canada Geese.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zNM9bfvgQj-LP2wAKjB6TRShbpm_VGI78Z5WkLBGbNAe7FOBrfz-frYeSPZZZyLv60bQuDCEmmxv87KzRZntgA4zYpqykK32x7CvxSRNgyTn5kw3e6BzhUqIlsFFc8Vi2U58FmovjmO_ZwD8VM-IFCcntEXvT6cpyyEobg-eLZadAW8SwQ/s590/07%2002-13-11,%20Whites%20admire%20water,%20Canadas,%20supports%20for%20Gd%20Junction,%20Charles%20-%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="244" data-original-width="590" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5zNM9bfvgQj-LP2wAKjB6TRShbpm_VGI78Z5WkLBGbNAe7FOBrfz-frYeSPZZZyLv60bQuDCEmmxv87KzRZntgA4zYpqykK32x7CvxSRNgyTn5kw3e6BzhUqIlsFFc8Vi2U58FmovjmO_ZwD8VM-IFCcntEXvT6cpyyEobg-eLZadAW8SwQ/w640-h264/07%2002-13-11,%20Whites%20admire%20water,%20Canadas,%20supports%20for%20Gd%20Junction,%20Charles%20-%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I have repeatedly provided the Cambridge City Council with the PUBLISHED destruction plans of the two destructive entities on Magazine Beach in the area shown and the area to its west / left in the photo. The report contrasts plans with photos of targeted trees. It is posted on the Charles River White Geese Blog at http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm. </p><p>A lot of destruction has already been accomplished, featuring destruction with city funding. The funding votes have been accomplished with the maximum possible secrecy and without meaningful public presentation.</p><p>The original plans were to destroy 54 mostly excellent trees. That destruction number has passed 60.</p><p>Here are the destruction plans for the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and the Wild Area. A photo in live is on page 3, above.</p><p>Below are the destruction plans which have been pending since 2009 for the Wild Area, but have NOT YET been implemented.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvF2NQA_ogv6wlPdp_bHq0lGYlzklu04xkU4uc3CQNZTtLPH8vEOVcT81O1WOwC8fx46FYh53_nynJIOcfizCKyRgEgvTnFWr5WHU5g3NN1pAygDsb2jlmddFbMJOiuVQ7zg5Ts0rY1ePJ9arIzLKyKAjBK-Q1P1ZyYhxJib-q5ebAmwa7A/s3300/Mem%20Dr%20Tree%20Destr%2002,%20red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="3300" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvF2NQA_ogv6wlPdp_bHq0lGYlzklu04xkU4uc3CQNZTtLPH8vEOVcT81O1WOwC8fx46FYh53_nynJIOcfizCKyRgEgvTnFWr5WHU5g3NN1pAygDsb2jlmddFbMJOiuVQ7zg5Ts0rY1ePJ9arIzLKyKAjBK-Q1P1ZyYhxJib-q5ebAmwa7A/w640-h494/Mem%20Dr%20Tree%20Destr%2002,%20red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The Wild Area is the thick wood to the right of the Railroad both in the photo on page 3 and in the 2009 plans. In the plans the railroad is the thin vaguely diagonal and vertical lines running up and down in the middle.</p><p>Note that EXACTLY ONE tree is NOT DESTROYED in the plan. The most recent outrage is games by the Cambridge City Council and the DCR apparently to proceed with destruction AS SECRETLY AS POSSIBLE.</p><p>The following enlargement blows up the ONE TREE (number 535) not being destroyed and the lying code which gives the impression that the map is meaningful while omitting almost all trees in the Wild Area..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjstvP8wsG9LP2P7N-Ent9e-WS2BVHx3_Rn5evYXGg5F9HQFx40kOrWI-9jY0Uq7Xxs44uNjbzyohSqH4-PRy66LCEWy09bUNZ8nsqXuYtkU3joDoTkp_saVlvAVSxlhK3oj51bysBv4yo974JIH09oJdqsUUthqng8ut3dbpZwjXyRaA6n2g/s1137/02%20Virtical%20Crop%20of%20Dest%20Tree.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1111" data-original-width="1137" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjstvP8wsG9LP2P7N-Ent9e-WS2BVHx3_Rn5evYXGg5F9HQFx40kOrWI-9jY0Uq7Xxs44uNjbzyohSqH4-PRy66LCEWy09bUNZ8nsqXuYtkU3joDoTkp_saVlvAVSxlhK3oj51bysBv4yo974JIH09oJdqsUUthqng8ut3dbpZwjXyRaA6n2g/w640-h626/02%20Virtical%20Crop%20of%20Dest%20Tree.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Future plans are to be “publicly” reviewed ONLY by the GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR who poisoned the Charles River for the DCR (see following section). She may or may not invite friends to rubber stamp her. This is a GOVERNMENT BREAK-OUT of THE LATEST, DELIBERATELY SECRET initiative. The break-out would have “meaningful public review” far less than even “meaningful” reviews as such “reviews” are allowed in Cambridge with its fake protective groups so common.</p><p>Details are posted at: <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/memorial-drive-phase-3-fraud-on-charles_27.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/memorial-drive-phase-3-fraud-on-charles_27.html</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Partial History of the Shore of the Charles River at Magazine Beach. The playing fields, the area Phil’s sign lies of concern about.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DCR and Cambridge poisoned the Charles River through the Government Contractor who is pawned off as supposedly the TOTAL sum of interested people concerning the Charles River in this area.</p><p>The native and non-native terms as used on the Charles River fit the same mold as “VALUE” and “NO VALUE.” In the bizarre world with whom we are dealing. Excellent vegetation and the LAST REFUGE OF FREE ANIMALS ON THE CHARLES RIVER (the Wild Area, and to its left in the above presentations) have “NO VALUE.”</p><p>Contractors are not making money on them.</p><p>Here is another sign which has been on Magazine Beach longer. This is my compilation of three photos by Phil to present that hypocrisy. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH0OHCWCxeCAcBH7VUzpimoNGv-SSu5H3eAr1Rb3NdQUaMBodVCpaiC66UXOcVfm-Jheux2KUTfylRtuA3JEjrB_sx_hrBL3ZImEV7_RPtHKUFQ-ozyBP-AjvPZpjBVvwE8oZlh36z_zikzRk4wwCp5AnzYXR58Dpj3ohVCYkQLC63vI2kcQ/s763/07-27-21%20DCR%20Sign.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="763" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH0OHCWCxeCAcBH7VUzpimoNGv-SSu5H3eAr1Rb3NdQUaMBodVCpaiC66UXOcVfm-Jheux2KUTfylRtuA3JEjrB_sx_hrBL3ZImEV7_RPtHKUFQ-ozyBP-AjvPZpjBVvwE8oZlh36z_zikzRk4wwCp5AnzYXR58Dpj3ohVCYkQLC63vI2kcQ/w640-h478/07-27-21%20DCR%20Sign.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The sign explicitly says the DCR and Cambridge are preventing poisoning of the Charles River by poisons INTRODUCED INTO THIS FORMERLY PRISTINE AREA BY THE TWO IN THE LATE 2000's.</p><p>Here is how the DCR through the Charles River Poisoner poisoned the Charles River, WITH DCR MONEY AND DCR “volunteers” mostly from outside of Cambridge.</p><p>First, here is a still from Minute 10.26. It is a blow up of a much closer shot than provided above.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkV5Bl5MNTlFb9Ix3jjsUPK6ohuC6op4lPFWqKBnYPwaStRwuJ7Legn1v9I76j-1l0_8p71NDI7nVNzcp6vfrJdXIS80BrkGsNggnB0GDFkwGxweJ2PG4IE9xE2qC3YjSaQu7_QM53ZVzNDFrgS5m_RJtYbe_rFHcoAEjKC1LHnpTrfwI0Zg/s1217/10.26%20Centr%20Starv%20Wall%20Fm%20N.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="1217" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkV5Bl5MNTlFb9Ix3jjsUPK6ohuC6op4lPFWqKBnYPwaStRwuJ7Legn1v9I76j-1l0_8p71NDI7nVNzcp6vfrJdXIS80BrkGsNggnB0GDFkwGxweJ2PG4IE9xE2qC3YjSaQu7_QM53ZVzNDFrgS5m_RJtYbe_rFHcoAEjKC1LHnpTrfwI0Zg/w640-h198/10.26%20Centr%20Starv%20Wall%20Fm%20N.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The Starvation Wall at the top deliberately takes their food away from the Charles River White Geese, along with the introduction of poisoning of that food after a Century in which Magazine Beach had been pristine.</p><p>The areas of vegetation below the Starvation Wall were created to drain the DCR and Cambridge poisons off and KEEP THEM OUT OF THE CHARLES RIVER as is stated on the above sign.</p><p>The Charles River Poisoner and her DCR funders were horrified to see vegetation in the drainage area that did not have payments to contractors involved in their growth.</p><p>The Charles River Poisoner, using “volunteers” and funds supplied by the DCR including Trump moneys destroyed much of the protective vegetation in the area created to KEEP THE DCR / CAMBRIDGE POISONS OUT OF THE CHARLES RIVER.</p><p>Here is part of what they did to “defend” the Charles from UNPAID, FREE EXCELLENT VEGETATION.December 1, 2022 [ed. this date is date of submittal of the letter. Apparently erroneously inserted in the text by a robot and I missed the "improvement." Love those robots.]</p><p>They tore up healthy, vibrant vegetation and REPLACED IT WITH PLASTIC.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheBTojSQB6t6XYpjyUFHBOTgE2IPfDe2y48q35_60VN0KnfrJUjIsBiFSB1XuJmo0jM8hMlLfrXq-6tegVpX_B_yfwzwHlOEcQ0CjeDiCp29kGKQ2e16cIH76gzScoNnpQsLNMSllNVLxtItIiYTOXP-Y_ulJamwYsTZ7Z7ZqDKPb6diydIw/s960/IMG_2715.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheBTojSQB6t6XYpjyUFHBOTgE2IPfDe2y48q35_60VN0KnfrJUjIsBiFSB1XuJmo0jM8hMlLfrXq-6tegVpX_B_yfwzwHlOEcQ0CjeDiCp29kGKQ2e16cIH76gzScoNnpQsLNMSllNVLxtItIiYTOXP-Y_ulJamwYsTZ7Z7ZqDKPb6diydIw/w640-h480/IMG_2715.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here is a City of Cambridge truck picking up the valuable vegetation DESTROYED BY THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER who is now the only entity allowed to participate in public review of projects in this area. This and the damage photo were taken on December 7, 2017:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY7zaE-TCUqJ6L6ER7WFatcd-u2zmFlFpeKP6LayRWZgV5HC_r1SbCJzG6P-LqhPNz2wr4KIdQZ2VCBjB_73SdA6ifAmY-bdn-80dJXVpb8GuIx94XxtaRuVDeF4lsbJPSRnsz9coiGnuiRYD3SQ6kRfbry-gw_lDeQf01F0Dx2jYfszyG3w/s771/IMG_2735%20Crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="771" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY7zaE-TCUqJ6L6ER7WFatcd-u2zmFlFpeKP6LayRWZgV5HC_r1SbCJzG6P-LqhPNz2wr4KIdQZ2VCBjB_73SdA6ifAmY-bdn-80dJXVpb8GuIx94XxtaRuVDeF4lsbJPSRnsz9coiGnuiRYD3SQ6kRfbry-gw_lDeQf01F0Dx2jYfszyG3w/w640-h242/IMG_2735%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here is a photo by Phil Barber from the river end of the destruction, to the left of the MEANINGFULLY INTRODUCED BLACK PLASTIC in the above photo. May 2, 2018.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ikvBaISMv12WzKAEG1pC3wL27YcZ25r9npGB25c06NygVg96Tbm29oamiDtrnzAG9KEoLoyGGHSNlPsE9gDmx5K7NWYBrt-Xj8lMdS_mOa70KqOGPSBjZVLGyWChUsui9StZwNnnUDVwPN-I5LvgDkYsLhWaDtyLoMxttfNdl8L_SzY1bw/s750/Photo%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ikvBaISMv12WzKAEG1pC3wL27YcZ25r9npGB25c06NygVg96Tbm29oamiDtrnzAG9KEoLoyGGHSNlPsE9gDmx5K7NWYBrt-Xj8lMdS_mOa70KqOGPSBjZVLGyWChUsui9StZwNnnUDVwPN-I5LvgDkYsLhWaDtyLoMxttfNdl8L_SzY1bw/w640-h360/Photo%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here are Phil Barber photos of the algae which formed in the Charles River next to the Starvation Wall. September 3, 2018.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQekX0z9sAdsTvDw7raUlp8VYMumSM96XepHIVB6qBnsAg1nnRYyimI1OW-f-6rfKSxUnY941VadRUG2H-1JyGcSyzlstlNA4DDBCnJMtMTjwvulNjZOFIrplFlkgW8AcRD6YfU-wTVSE7aGPDLtJXVl1DOl1R63c3vmK77_s3NQvduUIyQ/s750/09-03-18%202%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQekX0z9sAdsTvDw7raUlp8VYMumSM96XepHIVB6qBnsAg1nnRYyimI1OW-f-6rfKSxUnY941VadRUG2H-1JyGcSyzlstlNA4DDBCnJMtMTjwvulNjZOFIrplFlkgW8AcRD6YfU-wTVSE7aGPDLtJXVl1DOl1R63c3vmK77_s3NQvduUIyQ/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGHr8bGh925JZffx_mUJuVUscTbMrdf7zPevF2OqYCJRSOwOrwdPAvExWOYNfS-nSPaGqeyn8890Ek7TY-sV5O0r_WHR560INzs5iJHjeplseveMOxjibRqm1NjdrXk901cn4i42h6hDz_Bsb9fW33Z3TrVDpW_ZmiaBsI-rE46PZlxWmJA/s750/09-03-18%202%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGHr8bGh925JZffx_mUJuVUscTbMrdf7zPevF2OqYCJRSOwOrwdPAvExWOYNfS-nSPaGqeyn8890Ek7TY-sV5O0r_WHR560INzs5iJHjeplseveMOxjibRqm1NjdrXk901cn4i42h6hDz_Bsb9fW33Z3TrVDpW_ZmiaBsI-rE46PZlxWmJA/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_K0H6PtU9g6FSUdqhzc1fF8x2tEjQX3iJReR8dwDN3hrG83sb56FOCJucI_Vu5ZGEBQtYSndKvMIAB7zK-tf_H_c9yfF3SSDjeN_5qy0GQJJ5jwYhchLrb4KJ2gw_NE-PAyZDsaF0CI6LW7GeVzPrS66dvMkcywZ9cswyZuDwooPsoWEqIg/s750/09-03-18%202%203.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_K0H6PtU9g6FSUdqhzc1fF8x2tEjQX3iJReR8dwDN3hrG83sb56FOCJucI_Vu5ZGEBQtYSndKvMIAB7zK-tf_H_c9yfF3SSDjeN_5qy0GQJJ5jwYhchLrb4KJ2gw_NE-PAyZDsaF0CI6LW7GeVzPrS66dvMkcywZ9cswyZuDwooPsoWEqIg/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%203.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuhyibORMr0JMSSbWRR0CcIMyP4ncM1X39JSqozp6hRJSyXewFyYOZ3j76Ly3A_lYV5J9GSiPK040fhpyW8uZ55-Yx2dQ4dRfDb-QG71ea4RCSDWmrJhZdnuQx_MlLwRICJesUWsnV5PNJ51xPl_khkula7CmXkBaGu_QJfiuWb9sbCMmWA/s750/09-03-18%202%204.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuhyibORMr0JMSSbWRR0CcIMyP4ncM1X39JSqozp6hRJSyXewFyYOZ3j76Ly3A_lYV5J9GSiPK040fhpyW8uZ55-Yx2dQ4dRfDb-QG71ea4RCSDWmrJhZdnuQx_MlLwRICJesUWsnV5PNJ51xPl_khkula7CmXkBaGu_QJfiuWb9sbCMmWA/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%204.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Come 2019, the Charles River was so overrun with this stuff that a fake protective group which supported the January 2016 outrages started yelling about algae infestation.</p><p>At no time did any of the various fake protective groups associated with the DCR or the Cambridge City Council bother to notice the CREATION OF THE POISONS IN THE CHARLES RIVER BY THE DCR AND CAMBRIDGE THROUGH THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER.</p><p>Subsequently, the DCR with Cambridge funding supported an apparent boondoggle to clean up the poisoning which was CREATED BY THE DCR AND CAMBRIDGE THROUGH THE CHARLES RIVER POISONER. I am unaware of any cessation by the DCR and Cambridge of their poison dumping next to the Charles River.</p><p>On the Boston side of the Charles River, A RESPONSIBLE AGENCY, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is working on rebuilding Interstate 90, a.k.a. The Massachusetts Turnpike, to correct deterioration of a raised portion because of age. They are also straightening it out in an area which was formerly a rail yard. This area abuts the western portion of Boston University and a residential neighborhood, plus the commercial district known as Allston Village.</p><p>The future resident (and current owner) of the rail yard is Harvard University. This area is very clearly Harvard’s coming relocation of the professional schools which share the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area with massively expanding hospitals. Harvard has floated its idea for a Deep Bore Red Line Subway spur to connect Harvard Square, the Allston Village Campus and the area in which the Harvard / Longwood Medical area is located.</p><p>Cambridge’s City Council has massively upzoned Harvard Square, rewarding Harvard to move facilities in Harvard Square to Harvard’s coming Allston Village Campus. Harvard’s coming Allston Village campus is triangular, with the top of the triangle near the Allston Village business district. That point is the obvious location for university housing, both moved from Harvard Square (thanks to the Cambridge City Council) and as needed to support the uses moved from the Harvard / Longwood Medical Area.</p><p>The Allston Village business district has been allowed to slide, obviously deferring maintenance for the coming campus AND COMING STUDENTS. It already is a student Mecca, particularly for Boston University and Boston College. It could readily replace the Harvard Square student Mecca.</p><p>As part of the legislature’s destruction of the Metropolitan District Commission, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation is tasked with management of open space being created in the process.</p><p>I have publicly questioned the DCR in an advisory committee meeting on the I90 Rebuild / Allston Village Campus project to determine if they intend to duplicate there the poisoning THEY AND CAMBRIDGE HAVE INSERTED ON THE CAMBRIDGE SIDE.</p><p>The DCR refused to comment.</p><p>Until about 2010 or so, the Metropolitan District Commission was responsible for all state lands abutting the Charles River. The legislature destroyed the MDC. Members of the legislature said they were responding to the destructiveness of the MDC. Open space went to the DCR. Highways went to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.</p><p>The terrible plans of the MDC are what underlie the outrages on the Cambridge side. “Planners” of the MDC moved to the DCR and resumed destruction, WITH CAMBRIDGE SUPPORT.</p><p>MassDOT has frequently looked like the adult in the room with two spoiled, destructive brats.</p><p>Here, from minute 10.02 is a still of Harvard’s future Allston Village Campus.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11mRLs9utLeaIT6g9WTiiKD8sChjf1WXmarWJ0SsfMJDypoIRwgNERa2TJmwnwLZACYmf84k1QK0FWui9NEfYVCk_DY-DBPVR78ZxepoYKfDrNWAkoK14wVzyraKVSXBYTajVRy6kCMNKq824aq46cYxt0WHb2jTpvSS3imCQLdBMWwmRVg/s1148/10.02%20CR%20Mass%20Pike%20Close%20Up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="1148" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11mRLs9utLeaIT6g9WTiiKD8sChjf1WXmarWJ0SsfMJDypoIRwgNERa2TJmwnwLZACYmf84k1QK0FWui9NEfYVCk_DY-DBPVR78ZxepoYKfDrNWAkoK14wVzyraKVSXBYTajVRy6kCMNKq824aq46cYxt0WHb2jTpvSS3imCQLdBMWwmRVg/w640-h156/10.02%20CR%20Mass%20Pike%20Close%20Up.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The area being “protected.” according to the DCR propaganda / sign.</p><p>Here is a photo of the Charles River at the Playing Fields at the beginning of this outrage. This shot was taken in mid-2006. I think the photo was taken by a representative of the Metropolitan Water Resource Agency.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWs3KsWZW09nULSb6PNv2GfuomCcVsV-60Gf2dTBBrFlSu5hSgPh3XqVhHLUTgXHG-N_3e-au_JS8s_gecsGaTLMeooqwtkpQVx8-T90Z71PShqMecXuPXDVXtkfKRVH1juBNBDDYU-X5aqDv0z1KMsvRe0s8pSSuLnB_5tn4X_hs5yPES3A/s1280/DSC06219,%20Auto.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWs3KsWZW09nULSb6PNv2GfuomCcVsV-60Gf2dTBBrFlSu5hSgPh3XqVhHLUTgXHG-N_3e-au_JS8s_gecsGaTLMeooqwtkpQVx8-T90Z71PShqMecXuPXDVXtkfKRVH1juBNBDDYU-X5aqDv0z1KMsvRe0s8pSSuLnB_5tn4X_hs5yPES3A/w640-h480/DSC06219,%20Auto.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>This is part of a collection of these photos. It was taken as part of a memorial which was front paged on the Cambridge Chronicle in 2006. </p><p>A service was conducted at that time on the environmental facility between the playing fields and the BU Bridge. It was taken with the assistance of the MWRA which owns the facility, and which brought the original gaggle to the facility for protection. Their guard dog passed away so they got White Geese who would raise a racket if a trespasser entered the pollution processing plan area. </p><p>The memorial was for Bumpy, the long time leader of the gaggle of the Charles River White Geese. A nut assassinated him in 2001. The nut had apparently been killing nesting geese. Friends of the White Geese begged the Cambridge City Council for protection. They ignored our requests. So the nut and friends raped and murdered a woman under and on the railroad bridge. The Cambridge City Council spent an hour discussing the rape and murder. They did not want to know WHERE it occurred. One City Councilor accidentally mentioned the location. She swallowed her words, looked around guiltily and joined her accomplices in not mentioning the location.</p><p>The Charles River White Geese, for most of the last 42 years fed and lived at Magazine Beach playing fields.</p><p>Here is the first view of the Charles River White Geese of the “improvements.” on September 4, 2008.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDfvAyXbcWWJlJAoSBKgV1eUu7IFh9TiK5CaXPsFX-Usd-hOlk878dzztBlcv5n5P70tvo8lOuYi6a_EALidtTSJWUFvTXvkodj3qS5tx783KHVz43ky5IzILXQADBZkUJn3SAix5nsCqG5h_0gPpzNU8gTIWm5v1_pZk5lb3bGoqgKM17w/s150/Mag%20BEach,%2009-04,%20MW,%20Geese,%20Barriers,%20Picture%20100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="150" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQDfvAyXbcWWJlJAoSBKgV1eUu7IFh9TiK5CaXPsFX-Usd-hOlk878dzztBlcv5n5P70tvo8lOuYi6a_EALidtTSJWUFvTXvkodj3qS5tx783KHVz43ky5IzILXQADBZkUJn3SAix5nsCqG5h_0gPpzNU8gTIWm5v1_pZk5lb3bGoqgKM17w/w640-h482/Mag%20BEach,%2009-04,%20MW,%20Geese,%20Barriers,%20Picture%20100.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The Boston Sunday Globe featured a report on this act of heartless abuse. The report led an internal section of the paper.</p><p>Remember the sainted Charles River Master Plan as written called for a “Lawn to the River.”</p><p>Here is the riverfront in 2012.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xxA0wlqac6bnxj8Qkyh-7yJJ6Q0-grf5W1XvCwRAzllx-7GqEGnK7WWCLPWxvQCwTP674K7e_uz95dfVK9CCE_AoBcJoA__VwgL9JL0uQQ_eu1Bx50lN4kGyBOK1hzIFBzAT-OXAUG1LMK_43FBzV2kLOuUdjvSEDT34NY9LUYnt69jqtg/s590/16%2004-14-12%20Path%20by%20impenetrable%20thicket.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="590" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6xxA0wlqac6bnxj8Qkyh-7yJJ6Q0-grf5W1XvCwRAzllx-7GqEGnK7WWCLPWxvQCwTP674K7e_uz95dfVK9CCE_AoBcJoA__VwgL9JL0uQQ_eu1Bx50lN4kGyBOK1hzIFBzAT-OXAUG1LMK_43FBzV2kLOuUdjvSEDT34NY9LUYnt69jqtg/w640-h426/16%2004-14-12%20Path%20by%20impenetrable%20thicket.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>After the outrage to the left was created blocking access, the Charles River Master Plan was amended to delete the promised lawn to the river and allow this outrage.</p><p>And a cross section at the same time.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGwa74OPfdoQr58ebHcOZWP5MwGlK-_jE4BjMq0UQ2L2izLjn36vTqmUVXkUtRxL9fLPQF90SPNwC465_Gse3MIXc7vVymMZ5VZB9T-0M_zwruv_DQ1xsqqkiGzaQj5OchSC1qqZDk7z_ruIFB9VmjqpMZEufOF1EUFKPNCFcO8U8pBVXVQw/s590/13%2004-14-12%20Impenetrable%20Thicket%20from%20former%20boatdock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="590" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGwa74OPfdoQr58ebHcOZWP5MwGlK-_jE4BjMq0UQ2L2izLjn36vTqmUVXkUtRxL9fLPQF90SPNwC465_Gse3MIXc7vVymMZ5VZB9T-0M_zwruv_DQ1xsqqkiGzaQj5OchSC1qqZDk7z_ruIFB9VmjqpMZEufOF1EUFKPNCFcO8U8pBVXVQw/w640-h426/13%2004-14-12%20Impenetrable%20Thicket%20from%20former%20boatdock.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>And from the Boston side.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7mhjFidrIl9pN0ZnLSv-iZZMR5WvD8yxSh0xP6Xv4pgWotI-14DzlmJ4A9Sy_LkUpAQsIjnCZdxsxOZb1EpnzbCPQlkOkanu_zjDFl21CZ_5SY3mXNx2EFlfh4KyCWPj88dYkEwrkB_GnXDI1N394HVLIoIwBA_P4h4JgZxBhcVhIY1k2g/s1600/After,%20from%20Boston,%202011%20QU%20-%20crop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1600" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA7mhjFidrIl9pN0ZnLSv-iZZMR5WvD8yxSh0xP6Xv4pgWotI-14DzlmJ4A9Sy_LkUpAQsIjnCZdxsxOZb1EpnzbCPQlkOkanu_zjDFl21CZ_5SY3mXNx2EFlfh4KyCWPj88dYkEwrkB_GnXDI1N394HVLIoIwBA_P4h4JgZxBhcVhIY1k2g/w640-h160/After,%20from%20Boston,%202011%20QU%20-%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The DCR and Cambridge walled off the banks of the Charles River with a bizarre wall of vegetation INSTEAD OF THE LAWN TO THE RIVER PROMISED IN THE SAINTED CHARLES RIVER MASTER PLAN AS PUBLISHED.</p><p>Sane people hated this bizarre wall since it made the Magazine Beach playing fields the equivalent of facilities ten miles from the Charles River.</p><p>By April 2021, the supposed protective work had started which is advertised by that sign which Phil blasted above</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-LllLlKm0aB5dGqpkumCaOvAQ5dxFLVS8C3mXdMNiibgXv6qH25lFMlIZi0ST1hVN8IGCfUTXrbWitJIydLgAH-iA_8f_P98g6BHKCcr2yxzYeeSXRwqEi9Dmojs3ldrOHUbOs4yrvtuiYams7vFdyd0jPGE8d2-SiUSQDkTZO9mCPuYqcg/s4624/20210417_164355_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3468" data-original-width="4624" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-LllLlKm0aB5dGqpkumCaOvAQ5dxFLVS8C3mXdMNiibgXv6qH25lFMlIZi0ST1hVN8IGCfUTXrbWitJIydLgAH-iA_8f_P98g6BHKCcr2yxzYeeSXRwqEi9Dmojs3ldrOHUbOs4yrvtuiYams7vFdyd0jPGE8d2-SiUSQDkTZO9mCPuYqcg/w640-h480/20210417_164355_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>This is part of the area shown three pictures above and is a few hundred feet west of the cross section.</p><p>Instead of that wall 16 feet or more high, they are creating a wall six feet or so high in this area. People and animals are still kept from traveling between most of the playing fields and the adjoining Charles River. AND, AS FAR AS I KNOW, THE POISONS CONTINUE TO BE DUMPED ON THESE BANKS OF THE CHARLES RIVER.</p><p>Later in 2021:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmlmLibF8-Bg1AmdVgrI5sai_-zBpyYD1VhhHUqMiRuaJ_KsnRnM9wSwLnE0-ASh1nsJBogRAtqE2i04JdXMGPDupHaG_evqK44mDgyJIi_eD-S5ynO_9cU0Iw9r0uy12OWWp2boViG-WuiF6jnavGwNTUTkKoKReTz2Z_Bmv9GyJUXcw1Fw/s3264/IMG_0284%20Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmlmLibF8-Bg1AmdVgrI5sai_-zBpyYD1VhhHUqMiRuaJ_KsnRnM9wSwLnE0-ASh1nsJBogRAtqE2i04JdXMGPDupHaG_evqK44mDgyJIi_eD-S5ynO_9cU0Iw9r0uy12OWWp2boViG-WuiF6jnavGwNTUTkKoKReTz2Z_Bmv9GyJUXcw1Fw/w640-h480/IMG_0284%20Red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIK3vRQw44U2DSRgKJTG_W59S77Ga80rECxPb5PVh7x-tEri_Q9ucNMXJooAaRoUNCzHIAWY775tg6idUuNj8ROZN0QMEFVrdTGuWeHdiWUHqUFE1xAurwBaQPY_DkGkmfQ8kpVJ6py3zZMPguVyygdB866_6vFbz64DTKhd3O7L-MRaykKQ/s3264/IMG_0285%20Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIK3vRQw44U2DSRgKJTG_W59S77Ga80rECxPb5PVh7x-tEri_Q9ucNMXJooAaRoUNCzHIAWY775tg6idUuNj8ROZN0QMEFVrdTGuWeHdiWUHqUFE1xAurwBaQPY_DkGkmfQ8kpVJ6py3zZMPguVyygdB866_6vFbz64DTKhd3O7L-MRaykKQ/w640-h480/IMG_0285%20Red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMobFDbH8sJR5nCp-lzN2Js_A-fIzM5svHcYnYwFg-5NZS4VC9JtkOPQwehct1e9t5HpN4MNwrL25_1RZJR02rnQrbaLqaqBGnYn2C6eH9sWzBAHp0fxU_0UfMAReTNsnGptpRjoICXLKtOPnMLQRe-CsLiVvyJXCmE7_BxX1wtB7tlmourg/s3264/IMG_0288%20Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMobFDbH8sJR5nCp-lzN2Js_A-fIzM5svHcYnYwFg-5NZS4VC9JtkOPQwehct1e9t5HpN4MNwrL25_1RZJR02rnQrbaLqaqBGnYn2C6eH9sWzBAHp0fxU_0UfMAReTNsnGptpRjoICXLKtOPnMLQRe-CsLiVvyJXCmE7_BxX1wtB7tlmourg/w640-h480/IMG_0288%20Red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVyRnPchCfdnt3i2Bzped9PsCEN9jv9j1mUIh6MEx0TAGnrqXh9AkyNK_guhke6zJhe99u6a2jsOZT6GyUH5HD3ZLu9g54ptoOa4VCYRbHgO6lo9PFBm36Cp35_vtorLZC-skGrzJhqp658RHromVVNO-BXaGpm4ubhAT_MVnJiti_teN9g/s3264/IMG_0298%20Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVyRnPchCfdnt3i2Bzped9PsCEN9jv9j1mUIh6MEx0TAGnrqXh9AkyNK_guhke6zJhe99u6a2jsOZT6GyUH5HD3ZLu9g54ptoOa4VCYRbHgO6lo9PFBm36Cp35_vtorLZC-skGrzJhqp658RHromVVNO-BXaGpm4ubhAT_MVnJiti_teN9g/w640-h480/IMG_0298%20Red.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Magazine Beach survived very well before 1997 or so when the Later Court Condemned City Manager Robert Healy and his fake protective groups started to publicize “improvements.” Since then, the destructiveness of the incompetents far exceeds what little good they have done. </p><p>[A footnote was inserted after the mention of Robert Healy. It read as follows]</p><p>* * * * *</p><p>Monteiro v. Cambridge, trial court decision is posted at: <a href="http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html">http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/judge-issues-decision-denying.html</a>. Appeals Court panel’s comments are posted at: <a href="http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/appeals-court-decision-in-monteiro.html">http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/appeals-court-decision-in-monteiro.html</a>. I say “comments” with care. The Appeals Court panel SPECIFICALLY REFUSED TO DIGNIFY THE APPEAL OF THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL SUFFICIENTLY TO CALL THEIR COMMENTS AN “OPINION.” This was an employee / women’s rights case in which Judge and Jury roundly damned Healy for destroying the life of a minority department manager because she had the nerve to expect equal pay for equal work. The sequence of opinions may be summarized in one word about his behavior: “reprehensible.” The guilty City Council saw one incumbent clearly fired in the next election, and a second fired for multiple reasons probably including this outrage during the next election. [ed: sloppy wording. the second "next election is intended to refer to the election after the immediately following election.]</p><p>* * * *</p><p>Destruction of one of these fake protective groups was one of Friends of the White Geese’ first projects.</p><p>Healy was the middle of three related City Managers who assisted in the creation of a very real machine of what clearly look like fake protective groups which fool well meaning people into behavior contrary to their wishes. </p><p>One of the first things the City Manager machine did when it returned to Cambridge in about 1974 was to declare that they wanted to create “neighborhood associations.” One big reason was very clearly that the sire of the City Manager line, James Leo Sullivant and his then assistant, Robert Healy, were fired about seven years earlier as the result of INDEPENDENT groups organizing against the behavior of James Leo and friends.</p><p>Since the return of James Leo and the court condemned Robert Healy, a lot of “protective groups” predictably have appeared when the city’s development department has some sort of wild idea. The “protective groups” sound great but have a strong tendency to deliver the opposite of what they claim to stand for.</p><p>Magazine Beach has been a tourist attraction because of the gaggle of free Charles River White Geese which have lived there for most of the last 42 years since the MWRA brought in their ancestors to protect the pollution control plant. </p><p>The “plans” upon which the outrage was based included a” Charles River Master Plan” which supposedly is sainted, but which was almost immediately violated. The plans called for a “lawn to the river” at the Magazine Beach playing fields which were the home most of the year of the beloved Charles River White geese.</p><p>The DCR and Cambridge provided the Starvation Wall to starve the Charles River White Geese, plus they started dumping poisons on the grass, their food.</p><p>The latest nonsense is the DCR / Cambridge City Council response to sane people objecting that the starvation wall created a situation where the Magazine Beach playing fields might as well be ten miles from the Charles River. This silly addition is silly. </p><p>From the point of view of the heartless animal abusers at the DCR and Cambridge City Council, it continues their heartless abuse of the Charles River by blocking access to their food while also, it would appear, continuing to poison that food.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>ADDENDUM:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge Conservation Commission Meetings look like they have been essentially secret to the public since the beginning of 2022.</p><p>Probably the most useful information on the outrages on the Charles River has been divulged at the meetings of the Cambridge Conservation Commission. I have been taken off the mailing list for agenda and that status has not been renewed in spite of various requests, including written requests to the City Council and City Manager</p><p>Here is a screen shot as of November 22, 2022, from the city’s on line records demonstrating that agendas, PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE ON LINE TO THE PUBLIC, ARE NOW AS SECRET AS THE PENDING OUTRAGES ON THE CHARLES.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-06eX5Qs35PrOUBawNgr9EIupShjtN12F2gwCj84FcM3o1z0b9BLxOwrPdBG5_kdBhWfxKrXeKp_4YyTR-hE0pApMsguVrZHuT1MQgvywJhKZLE1XirqwHTPD67ZfAQjFTCeyNnyW8ciibjIr-TdphXCxW2LiwYX-lRp0EkN_ac6cMqPQjA/s1366/11-22-22%20Total%20list%20of%20available%20agenda,%20Cons%20Comm%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-06eX5Qs35PrOUBawNgr9EIupShjtN12F2gwCj84FcM3o1z0b9BLxOwrPdBG5_kdBhWfxKrXeKp_4YyTR-hE0pApMsguVrZHuT1MQgvywJhKZLE1XirqwHTPD67ZfAQjFTCeyNnyW8ciibjIr-TdphXCxW2LiwYX-lRp0EkN_ac6cMqPQjA/w640-h360/11-22-22%20Total%20list%20of%20available%20agenda,%20Cons%20Comm%20copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Agendas appear partially available to the public through the end of 2021. They now look like they are for all practical purposes secret unless you go to staff and request particular papers. But first you need to know what to look for.</p><p>Sincerely, </p><p><br /></p><p>Robert J. La Trémouille, Chair</p><p>Friends of the White Geese</p><p><br /></p><p>cc:<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Owen O'Riordan, Commissioner</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge Department of Public Works</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>147 Hampshire St.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cambridge, MA 02139</p><p><br /></p><p>Please note section 4 above. We object.</p><p><br /></p><p>Attachments [presented immediately following]:</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A partial rendition of the author’s activist résumé showing property in the most controversial parts of Cambridge.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DCR generated map of plans agreed to by the Charles River Poisoner and provided by her to the Cambridge City Council in 2019. I have divided up the plan into three parts for convenience of view. These are not official filings of the DCR. They are filings by the GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR who is presented to the public and government agencies as the equivalent of a meaningful neighborhood association.</p><p>Attachment 1</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmXp_Uuys5ax8c86gek_QLWAhYnuqv1DETuiEnUenUHjZn3N4xgfVtLJdHjNo-78ZkB_g6ujv7ZG-UZRAtQoO8p19_GajO6cneUvjbUyMBrvCY6S1RuYVItKSjbLzbY9W6HmC40lEHsLtQjoYp-FwP7lH0OteCwddxM3ANUsXlrw4qyPujw/s3507/Table,%20Activist%20R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20Red.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFmXp_Uuys5ax8c86gek_QLWAhYnuqv1DETuiEnUenUHjZn3N4xgfVtLJdHjNo-78ZkB_g6ujv7ZG-UZRAtQoO8p19_GajO6cneUvjbUyMBrvCY6S1RuYVItKSjbLzbY9W6HmC40lEHsLtQjoYp-FwP7lH0OteCwddxM3ANUsXlrw4qyPujw/w466-h640/Table,%20Activist%20R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9%20Red.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHgLK-NaybBtX4MJLQdh3kQUall-tuFLn4mLUU2e8__vcrsWHjdJm8VTcm5t6kSg9e4hJkP4UJBub_6d7qGVcUaa5yD_nqC0LXxJ6KN3kAsHCl59mesd8TqjeLk0hd4hACBHYzZpRj5vC6tXUt6ZK_qYlO8qBsisQZsYKwzkHzGLMHJKf_kQ/s3289/JFK%20-%20City%20Hall,%20Mellen%20Marked%20U,%20reduced%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2530" data-original-width="3289" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHgLK-NaybBtX4MJLQdh3kQUall-tuFLn4mLUU2e8__vcrsWHjdJm8VTcm5t6kSg9e4hJkP4UJBub_6d7qGVcUaa5yD_nqC0LXxJ6KN3kAsHCl59mesd8TqjeLk0hd4hACBHYzZpRj5vC6tXUt6ZK_qYlO8qBsisQZsYKwzkHzGLMHJKf_kQ/w640-h492/JFK%20-%20City%20Hall,%20Mellen%20Marked%20U,%20reduced%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Attachment 2</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrki7-Jb2yWZckVd-xopAh6yHXBHV6nrfhZcnsoFDDHBQJ4RRkHnFr1f7dm2gxjHWNBLMl8VJj_oFhsIxfXvV5Vc6HgjVQZxRrGwg3txcxyw_mLmt-ohi0ZfAL227flM-0CJNxE-LzOb1tunt239lTXn7Z8sP4MN0FmTR6mXHtUgBrlQO2wQ/s1166/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2left.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrki7-Jb2yWZckVd-xopAh6yHXBHV6nrfhZcnsoFDDHBQJ4RRkHnFr1f7dm2gxjHWNBLMl8VJj_oFhsIxfXvV5Vc6HgjVQZxRrGwg3txcxyw_mLmt-ohi0ZfAL227flM-0CJNxE-LzOb1tunt239lTXn7Z8sP4MN0FmTR6mXHtUgBrlQO2wQ/w576-h640/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2left.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxOBp7DptPRIugIWq4A8EBjy1scca_4BRx6EFhKCiSoNtj-uwTBh30VNBKBfDjgmzkO33ZKqoyTt5W757HIaQwo96_2eT3B_RnYXESv78za1bYasFc3oYJ9caWO_KIxIVeH8JHcleV2icRNI2ZkD8nyXozU7KhsL6BqSd2nAOnjY-UTDv-nw/s908/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2mid.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="663" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxOBp7DptPRIugIWq4A8EBjy1scca_4BRx6EFhKCiSoNtj-uwTBh30VNBKBfDjgmzkO33ZKqoyTt5W757HIaQwo96_2eT3B_RnYXESv78za1bYasFc3oYJ9caWO_KIxIVeH8JHcleV2icRNI2ZkD8nyXozU7KhsL6BqSd2nAOnjY-UTDv-nw/w468-h640/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2mid.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLv5OMqSuoNLuzpms3mdYRtf3Bla2QW8NcsfCn3uwX5gIwpzcNQkJlNxzUKh1Kx6hbgg6D-otvCpTLkRXew_0VHa4QFZiyJJUrIlW8npC3AIzu0VSsIAubibEpD8q6yiEjXsIs54AHCanxxqfqmTwfLcgg3mWCsjdC_p614_ikaM5YSMY5g/s1077/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2rt.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvLv5OMqSuoNLuzpms3mdYRtf3Bla2QW8NcsfCn3uwX5gIwpzcNQkJlNxzUKh1Kx6hbgg6D-otvCpTLkRXew_0VHa4QFZiyJJUrIlW8npC3AIzu0VSsIAubibEpD8q6yiEjXsIs54AHCanxxqfqmTwfLcgg3mWCsjdC_p614_ikaM5YSMY5g/w638-h640/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2rt.jpg" width="638" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-14610909626814947992022-10-15T08:45:00.002-05:002022-10-15T15:16:07.950-05:00 Update on Storrow Drive mess of 10/14/22. No impact on Charles River White Geese?<p> Update on Storrow Drive mess of 10/14/22. No impact on Charles River White Geese?</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Update.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phil Barber.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WBZ-TV, Channel 4.</p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Boston.com.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Context Analysis.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction.</p><p>This follows up on yesterday’s report at <a href="https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/nasty-accident-on-boston-side-of-bu.html">https://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/nasty-accident-on-boston-side-of-bu.html</a>. </p><p>There was a strikingly nasty accident with oil spill on Soldiers Field Road / Storrow Drive under the Boston End of the BU Bridge which abuts the ghetto in which the Charles River White Geese are heartlessly confined on the Cambridge side.</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Update.</p><p><br /></p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phil Barber.</p><p>Phil Barber provided me with the following still from WBZ channel 4 yesterday after I had started distribution of our report.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkG3Ijm4tB_Rr5XVopKluh9CQLvBvtowRFX_nxwHCzG-9J1E3TjZ5gn-smboJYHvDZhajV_llVjouPzdhWzlIJlvcsxAwev3PlfebYugqPqZ7shpI0uglrxIn_9AhSHKGxHQXUJf5kixtxJxUBAAW4whuS1C6Cl1GRfznz9ovwUrDW6wmvg/s808/10-14-22,%20WBZ%20TV,%20Phil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="808" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkG3Ijm4tB_Rr5XVopKluh9CQLvBvtowRFX_nxwHCzG-9J1E3TjZ5gn-smboJYHvDZhajV_llVjouPzdhWzlIJlvcsxAwev3PlfebYugqPqZ7shpI0uglrxIn_9AhSHKGxHQXUJf5kixtxJxUBAAW4whuS1C6Cl1GRfznz9ovwUrDW6wmvg/w640-h358/10-14-22,%20WBZ%20TV,%20Phil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>WBZ-TV, Channel 4.</p><p>Post is dated 10/14/22, 12:37 pm</p><p>[A relevant photo disappeared while I was reading this. It is a short report, fully quoted.]</p><p>BOSTON - Part of Storrow Drive was shut down for nearly 9 hours Friday morning after a tractor-trailer crashed, tore off its roof and spilled boxed sprouts and oil all over the road.</p><p>The truck hit the B.U. bridge on the eastbound side of the highway around 2 a.m. and rolled over. Massachusetts State Police said the driver, a 67-year-old man from Mattapoisett, was walking around when they arrived and he didn't appear hurt.</p><p>There's no word yet on what caused the crash. </p><p>The Department of Environmental Protection was called in to help with the cleanup because of the oil that spilled from the truck.</p><p>The road re-opened around 11 a.m.</p><p>URL: <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/storrow-drive-crash-boston-traffic-storrowed-truck/">https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/storrow-drive-crash-boston-traffic-storrowed-truck/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>C.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Boston.com.</p><p>Boston.com’s report seems to be a direct quote from the state. The relevant paragraph from: <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/10/14/storrow-drive-truck-rollover-closes-road-morning-commute/?p1=recirc_mostpopular">https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/10/14/storrow-drive-truck-rollover-closes-road-morning-commute/?p1=recirc_mostpopular</a></p><p>"The parkway’s eastbound lanes remained closed through the morning commute, until around 11 a.m., as environmental officials cleaned up oil that had spilled from the truck. "</p><p><br /></p><p>D.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Short analysis.</p><p>Normally this sort of thing is from small box trucks with stupid students and family.</p><p>This driver was apparently a pro in a highly professional vehicle. Analysis: apparently just another bad driver remaining on the road perhaps because of the terrible traffic enforcement by New England police.</p><p>The WBZ TV report is extremely brief about the oil spill, just comments that it was cleaned up. If it were serious, they would have stated.</p><p>Similarly, they state that the contents and “oil” were spread “all over the road.” Apparently no problem with pervious surfaces.</p><p>Boston.com seems to be quoting the state, and just mentions the clean up. WBZ has the live camera report. I assume they added that language.</p><p>The situation would APPEAR to be not harmful to the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>The structure visible in Phil’s still is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Context Analysis.</p><p>Here is a good shot of the area from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 3, Drone footage, Drone footage, #3,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ciNKvj82d4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ciNKvj82d4</a>, Minute 9.13.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVlFLn3TBtOyLrBweNJZExl7pzMWeFQmpXGfjT_DHutWQI3eTJQw5LJDs89EqnXar2hX4XEtRL_DYP0JaPSijYeK-oe7NTGkgXz7Il9k1kjompFgc15jlJACItso6uIg9XzMtc1Au3Kz_b0YsQDB05MyjNQflOsG7RGsmllQHWaf6XRvjew/s1366/09.13%20GOOD%20Fm%20East,%20BU%20Br,%20GJ,%20I90,%20SFR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinVlFLn3TBtOyLrBweNJZExl7pzMWeFQmpXGfjT_DHutWQI3eTJQw5LJDs89EqnXar2hX4XEtRL_DYP0JaPSijYeK-oe7NTGkgXz7Il9k1kjompFgc15jlJACItso6uIg9XzMtc1Au3Kz_b0YsQDB05MyjNQflOsG7RGsmllQHWaf6XRvjew/w640-h360/09.13%20GOOD%20Fm%20East,%20BU%20Br,%20GJ,%20I90,%20SFR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The bridge which is most visible is the B.U. Bridge. Running under it is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge. The triangular area on the right bounded by the two bridges and Memorial Drive is the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese to which the Charles River White Geese have been confined since they were driven off their core habitat on the Magazine Beach playing fields (above the bridge, beyond the brown roof) in 2007. For most of their 42 year habitat on the Charles River, the Magazine Beach playing fields have been their core habitat and their food. The food has been poisoned and access destroyed by a bizarre row of bushes.</p><p>The trees at the bottom are the Wild Area, which the Cambridge City Council, through an aid, has gotten the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to remove from public view in coming destruction on Memorial Drive. TOTAL “Public” review of plans will very clearly be limited to the Charles River Poisoner and invited friends. </p><p>Here is a better view of the Boston side from minute 4.39, taken from the opposite direction:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcL7TPjNwlZwvs5h8gD4NoNu_vGfU-IOKrxVpzZ3SObvHiljdGSzSfGXXi6nY19XXggfkjKQ-42C74DjtXEZPU3wMSxajWDUrtDYtRMVB1FrZ68BCiFTQ1G2gAP2Eo9eAgAgKGrUMgsYtSmc3N9aWlBfcI_gFAJNtU2qY2F8XXpdWqliDHQ/s1366/04.39%20BU%20Bridge,%20CR%20Basin,%20N,%20S.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhcL7TPjNwlZwvs5h8gD4NoNu_vGfU-IOKrxVpzZ3SObvHiljdGSzSfGXXi6nY19XXggfkjKQ-42C74DjtXEZPU3wMSxajWDUrtDYtRMVB1FrZ68BCiFTQ1G2gAP2Eo9eAgAgKGrUMgsYtSmc3N9aWlBfcI_gFAJNtU2qY2F8XXpdWqliDHQ/w640-h360/04.39%20BU%20Bridge,%20CR%20Basin,%20N,%20S.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>To the right is the Boston end of the Grand Junction railroad bridge. Soldiers Field Road is next to the river. The Magazine Beach playing fields are below the brown area on the left.</p><p>The accident occurred on Soldiers Field Road between the Grand Junction Bridge and the BU Bridge. The Grand Junction Bridge is visible in the background of the Channel 4 still above. That shot was apparently taken from the BU Bridge.</p><p>The BIG highway is I90 (Mass. Pike), but that is another story. The road at which the BU Bridge ends on the right above I90 is Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-46980636866113713272022-10-14T10:41:00.000-05:002022-10-14T10:41:26.369-05:00Nasty accident on Boston Side of BU Bridge apparently does not impact Charles River White Geese, YET.<p>Nasty accident on Boston Side of BU Bridge apparently does not impact Charles River White Geese, YET.</p><p>New England has terrible drivers because of more than a century of terrible traffic enforcement. </p><p>One of the nastier examples is the low ceiling underpass under the BU Bridge for the boulevard on the Boston side of the Charles River from the ghetto to which the Charles River White Geese are confined.</p><p>This morning, apparently about 3:30 am, there was a nasty accident centered about a box truck on the inbound side of Storrow Drive / Soldiers Field Road. </p><p>I am reporting this occurrence because the reports have been varied and confusing as to the impact on the Charles River and thus the Charles River White Geese.</p><p>The best report I have been able to find is from NBC Boston, at <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/tractor-trailer-rolls-over-on-storrow-drive-in-boston/2862704/">https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/tractor-trailer-rolls-over-on-storrow-drive-in-boston/2862704/</a>.</p><p>Here is a still.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimugKFij0fheDsgcx_7L3TBwfo3UCd69CkJEO9qPsDVpLI89ufvJ9z7yaqxsXawrxICcivq9zBd0xg6eloMbIEvo2DyYH9oFip9bChlYco9dQl2hzSpp8H1iT96iVNtGZ-6G_7pMTdWVmJNmrKWffkVUxbtgRFiLIOtrxUlq8HcAkbaby1nA/s1366/10-14-22%20Overturned%20Truck.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimugKFij0fheDsgcx_7L3TBwfo3UCd69CkJEO9qPsDVpLI89ufvJ9z7yaqxsXawrxICcivq9zBd0xg6eloMbIEvo2DyYH9oFip9bChlYco9dQl2hzSpp8H1iT96iVNtGZ-6G_7pMTdWVmJNmrKWffkVUxbtgRFiLIOtrxUlq8HcAkbaby1nA/w640-h360/10-14-22%20Overturned%20Truck.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The logo on the TV report emphasizes an oil spill. </p><p>The DETAILS of the report, however, state that traffic is readily flowing on the side of the road nearest the Charles River. Thus the oil spill is not impacting that traffic, and thus does not get to the Charles River, and thus does not directly impact the Charles River White Geese, hopefully.</p><p>Underground transmission and thus to the Charles River can still be a possible concern.</p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-47064100911850623932022-09-27T18:38:00.001-05:002022-09-27T18:38:11.326-05:00Update from Magazine Beach<p>Update from Magazine Beach.</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phil Reports.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Analysis.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Magazine Beach Playing Fields.</p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction of Poisons, Poisoning of the Charles River.</p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Starvation Wall.</p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coming destruction of the Wild Area.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Phil Reports.</p><p>Last week I saw a drilling rig on Magazine Beach, near the athletic equipment area. Soil sampling, perhaps? Never saw one there before. (Phil’s photo.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIsJK6D4CzWMkQK1ImGmcxzjcWbYn4MwLNjHzcLQRCJLcU58OGg_fAPRkJT29dC8ENTGE83WVbvp-GvhtXy2AXJvZkX-63Oh70RZFG92zWagm1-o8SHRfBJWEX7ZaXPHLst60lpLGm21qOy0093Xa_u7I_e19za64TicqtR0XB8rJAYeZJIA/s750/09-24-22%20Phil,%20Drilling%20at%20Exercise%20Area.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="750" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIsJK6D4CzWMkQK1ImGmcxzjcWbYn4MwLNjHzcLQRCJLcU58OGg_fAPRkJT29dC8ENTGE83WVbvp-GvhtXy2AXJvZkX-63Oh70RZFG92zWagm1-o8SHRfBJWEX7ZaXPHLst60lpLGm21qOy0093Xa_u7I_e19za64TicqtR0XB8rJAYeZJIA/w640-h384/09-24-22%20Phil,%20Drilling%20at%20Exercise%20Area.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Interestingly, those reeds that some wanted to destroy are growing back very vigorously in the area that burned over last month. This while so much else is really struggling in the drought. The big cottonwoods are coming through it OK but maples and even oaks look quite stressed, with more new ones failing. (Also his photo.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpapegdO9dIsTXTskMLP3gcTa_XIal24CUK6tDrCaeEsW_gWxQbcYqHX4jtIn1ozYERwJAPQJqKs0OW0ebV-x7RkIb-ZwB0EoD6RlYFRNgE5-LI5ON8Qxg2HS27yvTbO3PWG84mmnIDBjBLg_BwLRObhTeztezXYI735Z_Sc59LwYk7F6EcQ/s750/09-24-22%20Phil,%20burned%20area%20regrows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="750" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpapegdO9dIsTXTskMLP3gcTa_XIal24CUK6tDrCaeEsW_gWxQbcYqHX4jtIn1ozYERwJAPQJqKs0OW0ebV-x7RkIb-ZwB0EoD6RlYFRNgE5-LI5ON8Qxg2HS27yvTbO3PWG84mmnIDBjBLg_BwLRObhTeztezXYI735Z_Sc59LwYk7F6EcQ/w640-h358/09-24-22%20Phil,%20burned%20area%20regrows.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Analysis.</p><p>A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Magazine Beach Playing Fields.</p><p>Here is the eastern part of a previously secret Department of Conservation and Recreation map of Magazine Beach laying out destruction plans agreed to by the DCR and the Charles River Poisoner. It was submitted to the Cambridge City Council a few years ago by the Charles River Poisoner ancillary to comments to the City Council..</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhB3Ggz9Tpn5SPmarNZeW76fkZX5ZNZuZnAUQKYthEVpyUG85IBuoLvkOmv8sjGVr6YO9L7vYG5BfN_xAZN6W9EpW6LXGHjo2TzGdzW0KvSE1G8hdyPpBvoIMoWADIqa9Fl0dUxHIfVG6nFkb_C8Y927zXt12zd-PGiO-a4VXcOtFRQS1Vg/s1077/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2rt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1077" data-original-width="1072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPhB3Ggz9Tpn5SPmarNZeW76fkZX5ZNZuZnAUQKYthEVpyUG85IBuoLvkOmv8sjGVr6YO9L7vYG5BfN_xAZN6W9EpW6LXGHjo2TzGdzW0KvSE1G8hdyPpBvoIMoWADIqa9Fl0dUxHIfVG6nFkb_C8Y927zXt12zd-PGiO-a4VXcOtFRQS1Vg/w638-h640/02-25-19%20Suzy%2003%20red2rt.jpg" width="638" /></a></div><br /><p>Near the top is Memorial Drive. At the bottom is the Charles River. Until the start of the heartless abuse of the 40 year resident tourist attraction Charles River White Geese, this was their feeding ground most of the year. It was pristine for a Century until the late 2000's when the DCR and Cambridge City Council </p><p>(1) introduced poisons into the habitat and </p><p>(2) created a bizarre wall of bushes lining the river. </p><p>These reprehensible people turned a clean waterfront area which was animal habitat into a poisoned area which might as well be ten miles from the river. The bizarre wall kept the Charles River White Geese from feeding and the poisons would have poisoned them if they did feed.</p><p>The area of the drilling is to the left of black area to the left of the figure 3. The two trees viewed in the photo show in the map to the left of the drills.</p><p>The regrowth is near the Charles River toward the bottom left corner. </p><p>The vegetation area which burned out and has now regrown is in the near rectangular area which has has a narrow connection above it. The greenery all around the area is the poison drainage facilities which the Charles River Poisoner previously blocked, causing an algae blight in the Charles River.</p><p>The green area next to the Charles River is the Starvation Wall. Recent changes in the wall next to the Charles have been accomplished in essentially SECRET votes by the Cambridge City Council. The SECRECY pattern has continued for years. </p><p>The SECRET actions have had several impacts on the Playing Fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>(1)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Introduction of Poisons, Poisoning of the Charles River.</p><p>Poisons were first introduced in the late 2000's after a Century of responsible maintenance. Dead bees have been observed in the playing fields. The area surrounding the regrowth were planted as drainage to drain off the poisons, and the DCR even has a sign bragging of the drainage in the area. (My combination of several Phil Barber Photos).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD4pfBZELcTn1OA_fgm9tOfGHqo2K990QZAE00XQIRfo6g1xosp7RGdVf2f7GJzcxbWricmR6LlHowKDhmkAxrgLvquG9jbzO3trjcDcZGdLwZ9SmtSnqQHCZzJH76LmumNVwVeaNupYfUfXtUccFp47S3emnCS0Upaf4NnkFr8n_oCnLRWg/s763/07-27-21%20DCR%20Sign.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="763" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD4pfBZELcTn1OA_fgm9tOfGHqo2K990QZAE00XQIRfo6g1xosp7RGdVf2f7GJzcxbWricmR6LlHowKDhmkAxrgLvquG9jbzO3trjcDcZGdLwZ9SmtSnqQHCZzJH76LmumNVwVeaNupYfUfXtUccFp47S3emnCS0Upaf4NnkFr8n_oCnLRWg/w640-h478/07-27-21%20DCR%20Sign.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>The state acting through an “activist” who is a City Council favorite who has an extended bad record and who has been repeatedly paid by the Cambridge City Council for “environmental work” blocked the poison drainage and caused an infestation of algae in the Charles River. The drainage block is my photo. This is the wide area to the right of the area of regrowth he is reporting.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJ2tLVg8YmJa8IVRNlpHcaZbjIwQTLcIp9Lli1QbjgEOjda7uzeIjZ7HTI9eyiJSaNcnjUeB9wLEQdly4S00q9wbSf_ZtrVq9F0malfc37plafg8uLwaEio8m0lmfXUD5rM-l9U4ivR4P7cLwIhdyJW2A-Z3UuWTJiQhh0j5ZN3M2IaDtAA/s960/IMG_2715.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJ2tLVg8YmJa8IVRNlpHcaZbjIwQTLcIp9Lli1QbjgEOjda7uzeIjZ7HTI9eyiJSaNcnjUeB9wLEQdly4S00q9wbSf_ZtrVq9F0malfc37plafg8uLwaEio8m0lmfXUD5rM-l9U4ivR4P7cLwIhdyJW2A-Z3UuWTJiQhh0j5ZN3M2IaDtAA/w640-h480/IMG_2715.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here are two photos of the algae blight in the Charles off Magazine Beach from Phil Barber.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCx9cZqe1EOmbRvdEQgVU4Hn0cLC4Qh2PtJuFic852-uLlpjpnkfWBi43GYcW8fXcRX9oZrJZXOKUEVvH7hxhYI2srXzaUQy0XzYb5UCvhyiMB9WJqiti8DjeHUyk_p97OWKMlF66lMJquCrYtN6HqvqIHUbNmf77yft1yRBn2SOeciek8A/s750/09-03-18%202%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCx9cZqe1EOmbRvdEQgVU4Hn0cLC4Qh2PtJuFic852-uLlpjpnkfWBi43GYcW8fXcRX9oZrJZXOKUEVvH7hxhYI2srXzaUQy0XzYb5UCvhyiMB9WJqiti8DjeHUyk_p97OWKMlF66lMJquCrYtN6HqvqIHUbNmf77yft1yRBn2SOeciek8A/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpjpQkZL9D0tn6CKCcSdE9R6s38dUoT92IsrrFRjzi9u1A1aCPZ5ZUonZ4D3iya3P1m5EzHxNXNPFBxCr7cff0AdsgM_TepJuvHuwgqk6zoI3o0K8A9jwTMJppB97uc8N3I_FMgdYYqm4i4bwD9rP3Rkvb_jXaLmHwzQ1dpwnsjJ15pkHjeQ/s750/09-03-18%202%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="750" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpjpQkZL9D0tn6CKCcSdE9R6s38dUoT92IsrrFRjzi9u1A1aCPZ5ZUonZ4D3iya3P1m5EzHxNXNPFBxCr7cff0AdsgM_TepJuvHuwgqk6zoI3o0K8A9jwTMJppB97uc8N3I_FMgdYYqm4i4bwD9rP3Rkvb_jXaLmHwzQ1dpwnsjJ15pkHjeQ/w640-h360/09-03-18%202%203.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>(2)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Starvation Wall.</p><p>Pretty much entire river front of the Playing Fields as shown on the Charles River Poisoner’s map above has been blocked by a bizarre wall of bushes which turned waterfront land into land as hidden from the Charles as comparable areas miles from the Charles River.</p><p>Here is a photo of the Charles River White Geese learning that they were being starved by the creation of the Starvation Wall.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTCOxwLPO5iAV7mFwuvFDDf3MDrhu9AP_MFgbQoKiCHSIz0m4VMokV5NwnEvUPSg_64bApT56YdwHjfG6pLg2ZQMyA_wgBXDT8vXJNGPo5if2x043MyzeNYlzjmHPzi_-T7nuDfd0i9RbpNaia8NR5aWaZwzfTpilroQkL7f8xYAmaRXSfw/s150/Mag%20BEach,%2009-04,%20MW,%20Geese,%20Barriers,%20Picture%20100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="113" data-original-width="150" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikTCOxwLPO5iAV7mFwuvFDDf3MDrhu9AP_MFgbQoKiCHSIz0m4VMokV5NwnEvUPSg_64bApT56YdwHjfG6pLg2ZQMyA_wgBXDT8vXJNGPo5if2x043MyzeNYlzjmHPzi_-T7nuDfd0i9RbpNaia8NR5aWaZwzfTpilroQkL7f8xYAmaRXSfw/w640-h482/Mag%20BEach,%2009-04,%20MW,%20Geese,%20Barriers,%20Picture%20100.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Here is a photo looking across the Charles River from the Boston / Brookline side. Note: exactly one opening. In the map from the Charles River Poisoner above, this opens to the rectangular area at the right marked 0.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7zUvTKuBwxz3_BmKW-4I46W8Mx-mQoCEn-55ovAYQw5XEHqtbYK2BKkz4ohEjzNWKxhWr3sBbugiJQYoCjzndMSGFRmSksT_DkmGdf96ljx9sH5-513KfarIstG_2nXu1Ds9KSOG3bCun8bwIsKY4HZfvmYaah33Ye0N-fZPGs4VDA_FGQ/s1600/After,%20from%20Boston,%202011%20QU%20-%20crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1600" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7zUvTKuBwxz3_BmKW-4I46W8Mx-mQoCEn-55ovAYQw5XEHqtbYK2BKkz4ohEjzNWKxhWr3sBbugiJQYoCjzndMSGFRmSksT_DkmGdf96ljx9sH5-513KfarIstG_2nXu1Ds9KSOG3bCun8bwIsKY4HZfvmYaah33Ye0N-fZPGs4VDA_FGQ/w640-h160/After,%20from%20Boston,%202011%20QU%20-%20crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The SECRET votes from the Cambridge City Council included a supposed boat dock in that opening. It makes the access from the Charles worse for resident animals and, creates no meaningful improvement for boats which were FIRST barred from access during the outrage of the 2000's.<p></p><p>But they brag of creating a boat dock.</p><p>Here is a still from drone photos of the exact area which is key in Phil’s regrowth photo and looking in the same direction. This a cropped still from “From Cambridge to Boston with the DJ Inspire 1 Drone footage,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN-OmMzvHhw</a>, minute 10.26</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-RM3QWchnyz_QSJAPQXhbwXOZZ8a8b4ZYbfRwBm8wiWORaqJ5bvoWs9IywU-NK3SMefum61KpkOkq7byR1Nx3r15YuYvuJq5OLfqkfgWNoHQeOJKOHmRZn63JWy_LrcA-w_xgXheFAYd-w1aUyzXw-s747RoEBvPZb_PlalKOCWt-rrxyDg/s1217/10.26%20Centr%20Starv%20Wall%20Fm%20N.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="1217" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-RM3QWchnyz_QSJAPQXhbwXOZZ8a8b4ZYbfRwBm8wiWORaqJ5bvoWs9IywU-NK3SMefum61KpkOkq7byR1Nx3r15YuYvuJq5OLfqkfgWNoHQeOJKOHmRZn63JWy_LrcA-w_xgXheFAYd-w1aUyzXw-s747RoEBvPZb_PlalKOCWt-rrxyDg/w640-h198/10.26%20Centr%20Starv%20Wall%20Fm%20N.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The “Charles River Master Plan” is constantly quoted as the state’s Bible for this area. NEVER mentioned is that the “Charles River Master Plan” called for a “lawn to the river” UNTIL THE STARVATION WALL WAS INSTALLED. Then the supposed Bible was changed to comport with this outrage. Just another lie.</p><p>One of the SECRET votes from the Cambridge City Council was the Usual Fraud. They chopped down a part of the large bushes. This was definitely only a partial chopping. The chopping that should be done is to remove it all. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKo3urjv7VwC8zAl-ZqvY-y4Dy63MVqLMt4lxtaoIicTIU2ZxIGm47Ujj2l5gChOyUlUGqC3lMWyzk89UWqy1SkzGS3sT3Cli2mV4tVM_G2oWCcS_NZWheGkXUGTnPoyeoFxxl4G8yanUtxbqisojdT9kMOlDdUZYiJaN-BDYEhWYL-KZ0w/s3264/IMG_0276.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKo3urjv7VwC8zAl-ZqvY-y4Dy63MVqLMt4lxtaoIicTIU2ZxIGm47Ujj2l5gChOyUlUGqC3lMWyzk89UWqy1SkzGS3sT3Cli2mV4tVM_G2oWCcS_NZWheGkXUGTnPoyeoFxxl4G8yanUtxbqisojdT9kMOlDdUZYiJaN-BDYEhWYL-KZ0w/w640-h480/IMG_0276.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p>What they did chop down was silly because their replaced the bushes with deep vegetation which continues the solid Starvation Wall and does little to make the area look less isolated from the Charles than any area ten miles from the Charles.</p><p>This photo was taken in the Spring of 2021. The vegetation has simply gone up and up and up.</p><p>As usual, exactly the opposite of the “Lawn to the River” of the supposedly sacred Charles River Master Plan.</p><p><br /></p><p>B.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coming destruction of the Wild Area.</p><p>From minute 9.13 of the Drone Photos. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnyDrFX30ClSk2UQn-bj0ftRm7crUy6aJKbEScPpqZuVwbypOyKKceRzqL9Yrxwa2FBs3YHlcf48HBNX0sE91b3W7d362aKe2pj4REPaBYmfdzKl1Pn6EbBYFR8gAOJh1bvQYIdWtd6pAlwQwV79ydEPw8LLy8EjCMurb1OX--R6jChxiYA/s1366/09.13%20GOOD%20Fm%20East,%20BU%20Br,%20GJ,%20I90,%20SFR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1366" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnyDrFX30ClSk2UQn-bj0ftRm7crUy6aJKbEScPpqZuVwbypOyKKceRzqL9Yrxwa2FBs3YHlcf48HBNX0sE91b3W7d362aKe2pj4REPaBYmfdzKl1Pn6EbBYFR8gAOJh1bvQYIdWtd6pAlwQwV79ydEPw8LLy8EjCMurb1OX--R6jChxiYA/w640-h360/09.13%20GOOD%20Fm%20East,%20BU%20Br,%20GJ,%20I90,%20SFR.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Cambridge is to the right of the Charles River. Crossing the river is the B.U. Bridge. Going under it is the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge. </p><p>The Grand Junction railroad separates the Destroyed Nesting area from the Wild Area. </p><p>The Destroyed Nesting Area is bounded by the BU Bridge and the Grand Junction Bridge, above the Grand Junction. Below the Grand Junction is the Wild Area.</p><p>Above the BU Bridge, with all the visible dirt, is the Magazine Beach Playing Fields. That dirt is the result of dumping all those poisons over a decade and a half. Supposedly an “improvement” over non poison maintenance.</p><p>The state and Cambridge have a goal, FOR A SERIES OF BIZARRE EXPLANATIONS, of destroying the Wild Area, primarily, with the usual harm, as well to the Destroyed Nesting Area. This area, because of repeated outrages starting in the late 2000's is the last part to be destroyed of the former mile long habitat of the Charles River White Geese for more than 40 years.</p><p>And the Destroyed Nesting Area / Wild Area is the last remaining free animal habitat on this part of the Charles River.</p><p>Secrecy on the Charles River was recently been exacerbated in the City Council staffer exchange with the DCR which we previously reported. The state apparently agreed to a deal which could destroy the Wild Area WITH ACTIONS, ONCE AGAIN, AS SECRET AS POSSIBLE, yet another piece of hypocritical outrage in a very bad situation. </p><p>One of the more bizarre explanations for destruction was the construction of a subway line across the Charles River. A necessary part of that subway line was the moving of the Landsdowne Commuter Rail Train Station to a location about two blocks from the left end of the BU Bridge. The station currently serves the Boston Red Sox’ Fenway Park, half a mile or so further away. I informed the developer of a project which considered THE EXISTING Landsdowne Station the jewel of his project. The station as close to suddenly as these things get done was greatly upgraded by the legislature, and the first few buildings have gone in. Here is a photo of the currently location of this station which supposedly is being moved.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuhI9wCa1JrqJxMMvXUkywkxF_9aHPPdDXUPhf59TXo91pfRlNp7LqTqM9gCMgx6jaAlr9rVPXKKKV2GIYRoGqax8-CKnTvf0gWEiFtj2NBEgyofgcE2vFcI3GVcxbtddp6o7ZCFaCD8lde516NVuwf0W7uvOll1748DWWf5jQUOiRRTv2A/s2448/IMG_0228.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="2448" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXuhI9wCa1JrqJxMMvXUkywkxF_9aHPPdDXUPhf59TXo91pfRlNp7LqTqM9gCMgx6jaAlr9rVPXKKKV2GIYRoGqax8-CKnTvf0gWEiFtj2NBEgyofgcE2vFcI3GVcxbtddp6o7ZCFaCD8lde516NVuwf0W7uvOll1748DWWf5jQUOiRRTv2A/w640-h640/IMG_0228.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>And here is a better view of the Wild Area which the Cambridge City Council and their favorite state agency want to destroy, WITH “PUBLIC HEARINGS” limited to the Charles River Poisoner and very few of her friends.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNOM5KEZ00ub6GZ86aygu0_qna-vIsoW1FN_ZQG2MN7a9fpyUd7kN9Yo7kKaaig2S-7mHPRNsNA6rEq0N80AbIxPTRiPtaBCkWKe0cDXbRQfr1u85Rk2gzCx4vjiCndQBFh-MkLuZ9LWokQ2ztrGUMiMuQzJeFPXdvW6G7xN0ktObrRSfnw/s351/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="198" data-original-width="351" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNOM5KEZ00ub6GZ86aygu0_qna-vIsoW1FN_ZQG2MN7a9fpyUd7kN9Yo7kKaaig2S-7mHPRNsNA6rEq0N80AbIxPTRiPtaBCkWKe0cDXbRQfr1u85Rk2gzCx4vjiCndQBFh-MkLuZ9LWokQ2ztrGUMiMuQzJeFPXdvW6G7xN0ktObrRSfnw/w640-h362/Wild%20Area%20-%20End%20the%20Destruction%20Crop.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I was at the most recent public showing of Magazine Beach by the state. As near as I could see, there was no participation whatsoever of the friends of the Charles River Poisoner who have helped her help Cambridge and its favorite state “environmental agency” destroy so much on the Charles River.</p><p>The composition of “activists” is strikingly similar to the “volunteers” the state provided to help the Charles River Poisoner poison the Charles River. The “well meaning” folks from Cambridge have been steadily part of the bragging, with non stop lies that they were not destroying trees.</p><p>On general principles, here is my video on the biggest part of the outrage accomplished so far: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. The “City Manager” mentioned is the same one who started this outrage in the 2000's as the Assistant City Manager. The video gives plans for the coming outrage as it was going to happen then. They are still at it, with the Cambridge City Council getting more and more visible, AS SECRETLY AS POSSIBLE. But they have stopped mentioning that they are destroying the Wild Area for that subway line. </p><p>My guess is that the subway line will no longer cross the Charles, because of a stunt pulled by the Cambridge City Council and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to block the surviving alternative crossing from the less environmentally destructive alternative. Cambridge and MIT shot themselves in the foot. Creating the subway line as a spur off the Orange Line from Ruggles Station to Kenmore with a superstation including Landsdowne Station will achieve their goals excellently.</p><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19121262.post-68851159371772307012022-08-20T09:37:00.000-05:002022-08-20T09:37:32.352-05:00Notice of Project Change, I90 Allston Multimodal Project, update on requirements, filed comments.<p>Notice of Project Change, I90 Allston Multimodal Project, update on requirements, filed comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>I.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I90 Rebuild Project Notice of Project Change has later comments due date.</p><p>II.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Comments.</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Directly on the point.</p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ancillary.</p><p>III.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Attached Fact Sheet Update.</p><p><br /></p><p>I.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I90 Rebuild Project Notice of Project Change has later comments due date.</p><p>The correct name is the I90 Allston Multimodal Project.</p><p>The official due date for comments is now September 13, 2022.</p><p>As usual, the Notice of Project Change is massive.</p><p>It can be downloaded at <a href="https://www.mass.gov/doc/appendix-g-npc-circulation/download">https://www.mass.gov/doc/appendix-g-npc-circulation/download</a>.</p><p>I filed my comments yesterday. The procedure is new to me and has strange limits. Unfortunately, the format does not seen to allow graphics in the comments and has a short limit, but does allow attachments. I put the lengthy part of the comments into the attachments and incorporated by reference. My comments were definitely placed into the record. </p><p>Section II has the comments. Section III has my summary sheet on the latest outrages which was included as an attachment.</p><div><br /></div><p>II.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gentlemen / Ladies:</p><p><br /></p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Directly on the point.</p><p>This notice of project . involves a massive increase in construction in the Charles River. Especially with the existence of other reasonable alternatives, this destruction of the Charles River is unacceptable.</p><p>Government allowed the poisoning of Massachusetts Bay and the filling of the Charles River. Government objected its own achievements WHEN GOVERNMENT GOT CAUGHT. The ongoing and increasing destruction of the Charles River, its water, its trees and its animals is an outrageous worsening of the very terrible record of government behavior. </p><p>A partial possible explanation is the incredibly active contractor lobbying sector. The mentality of such people toward existing parts of the environment WHICH NOBODY GOT PAID TO CREATE is consistently: “HAS NO VALUE.”</p><p>To this sick lobby, the existing Charles River, its vegetation, and its animals “have no value.”</p><p><br /></p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ancillary.</p><p>I have been very happy with MassDOT’s behavior during this extremely long process. MassDOT has looked like the adult in the room along with two spoiled children, the Cambridge City Council and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. </p><p>Ten years or so ago, the legislature tried to protect the Charles River from the reprehensible Metropolitan District Commission by giving the Charles River to the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Department of Transportation. However “planners” of the MDC moved to the DCR and have continued the very terrible destruction of which the MDC was guilty along with their destructive bedmates in Cambridge. These entities very much please the contractor lobbying sector.</p><p>This Notice of Project Change brings to the fore a striking defect in the composition of the Allston Multimodal Project task force. This is the apparent lack of MEANINGFUL protectors of the Charles River. This absence is striking (as opposed to development groups with their own obvious conflicts of interest).</p><p>Here is my video as to RECENT ACHIEVED outrages on the Charles River with the support, insofar as I can determine, of pretty much all of all of the members of the Allston Multimodal Project task force entities involved in the current project, except for MassDOT: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o</a>. Particularly shocking is the participation ON THE DESTRUCTIVE SIDE of people currently demanding environmental improvements on the Boston side of the river.</p><p>Here is my detailed analysis of the DCR / Cambridge plans for destruction at Magazine Beach: http://www.friendsofthewhitegeese.org/ar1.htm. A lot of the destruction has been achieved, WITH FUNDING AND OTHER ASSISTANCE FROM THE CAMBRIDGE CITY COUNCIL in actions kept as secret from public scrutiny as possible BY DESIGNATING A DESTRUCTIVE CONTRACTOR AS THE ONLY ENTITY ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC REVIEW, and by burying major votes in long lists of projects passed on to people without knowledge of the Charles River. </p><p>A lot of information about these outrages has been obtained by attending meetings of the Cambridge Conservation Commission. I am no longer on the mailing list the Cambridge Conservation Commission uses to publicize its agendas, and requests to return to the list manager, the Cambridge City Council and the Acting City Manager have not apparently been successful. In Cambridge, it is not acceptable to the powers that be to be MEANINGFULLY concerned about the environment.</p><p>Attached is our fact sheet as to current coming outrages. Please note, that, WITH THE SECRECY INVOLVED it is impossible to keep in contact with all the changes. One operator of major importance is the Charles River Poisoner who is getting paid with compensated destruction work by the Cambridge City Council. The Charles River Poisoner and friends HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS THE ONLY ENTITY ALLOWED TO HAVE ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE of coming outrages east of River Street, WITH PREDICTABLE SILENCE. NOBODY ELSE IS ALLOWED TO REVIEW.</p><p>The type of representation the advisory committee desperately needs is formal participation by an entity with a clear record of protective actions and achievement on the Charles River. There are only two such entities to our knowledge, us, Friends of the White Geese, and our non political counterpart, the Charles River Urban Wild Initiative. </p><p>CRUWI has stepped in to feed the free animals being attacked, poisoned and starved by the DCR and the Cambridge City Council. FOWG has been a recognized non profit in Massachusetts since 2001. CRUWI is the descendent of an even longer existing charitable corporation. FOWG assisted in the repurporsing of this charitable corporation but has been totally separate from CRUWI since its change of operation.</p><p>We strongly suggest the addition of Friends of the White Geese to the advisory committee through me, its chair. I have been as active in advisory committee deliberations as much as has been possible given the limited publicizing of committee activities. </p><p>I, acting on behalf of Friends of the White Geese and many concerned Cambridge residents several major achievements, thanks to responsible acceptance of my ideas by MassDOT. </p><p>The intersection ON THE COVER OF THE NOTICE OF PROJECT CHANGE directly connecting both sides of Soldiers Field Road to the former rail yards and the I90 off ramps was my idea and is now proudly displayed on the cover of the Notice of Project Change. This depiction seems to be pretty much MassDOT’s established public depiction of the effort. </p><p>This new intersection replaces the existing left turn from the Soldiers Field Road west off ramp to the River Street Bridge. It will greatly improve traffic on Soldiers Field Road, traffic at the intersection of the River Street Bridge and Soldiers Field Road, and traffic feeding to that intersection along with the highway structure containing that traffic.</p><p>The one part of my recommendation which was not initially accepted was the continuance of the right turn to the River Street Bridge carrying traffic to Cambridge. That ramp is crucial for traffic to large parts of Cambridge. DELETION OF THE RIGHT TURN IN ADDITION TO THE LEFT TURN WAS SUPPORTED BY BOTH APPOINTEES OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Deletion of the right turn was then responsibly reversed after I communicated the troubles with that deletion. To that regard, I HAVE BEEN A MORE MEANINGFUL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE THAN HAVE BEEN THE CAMBRIDGE APPOINTEES.</p><p>I have gotten confessions from the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation that they will not denying intent to poison the open space created as part of this project. This refusal is MAJOR because the DCR and the Cambridge City Council introduced poisoning onto the Cambridge side. The DCR acting through the Cambridge City Council favored Charles River Poisoner rerouted those poisons from an expensive drainage system into the Charles River. The DCR created the algae blight with its own poisons from the Cambridge banks.</p><p>We have been a positive influence OF MEANINGFUL PRO ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS NOT OTHERWISE AVAILABLE without formal membership. This project, now that it is getting much more visible in the waters and animal habitat of the Charles River, shows project’s need for representation by an entity with a MEANINGFUL record of concern for the waters, the vegetation and the animals of the Charles River. With our more than 20 years of existence, we have that record. </p><p>CRUWI is deliberately and necessarily non political. Its members do not think in political terms. They are also overwhelmed with their current activities. The heartless and increasing abuse of free animals by Cambridge and the DCR gives these activists a drastically needed function, PROTECTING FREE ANIMALS FROM THESE VERY DESTRUCTIVE ENTITIES.</p><p>This Notice of Project Change shows a need to have Friends of the White Geese, through me, formerly part of the advisory group.</p><p><br /></p><p>III.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Attached Fact Sheet Update.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTfqc32GjMGVXCwFy__ZKEsuuN4gtrvf-RpmcvedJBgUZikcdP7Jh5L5zs93obvX7idSmfappSJpWueqDALeSHmgmL_L-nXHGCTNlm-UGgIxtbxYyUpfY7BsWPoXftjZYenBknsSNJwFUxYMWVs8WFxm-H9ThHjc69eKA4kuAmd_0sxpzAiA/s3507/Micro%20+%20Wild%20Area%205%20001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2550" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTfqc32GjMGVXCwFy__ZKEsuuN4gtrvf-RpmcvedJBgUZikcdP7Jh5L5zs93obvX7idSmfappSJpWueqDALeSHmgmL_L-nXHGCTNlm-UGgIxtbxYyUpfY7BsWPoXftjZYenBknsSNJwFUxYMWVs8WFxm-H9ThHjc69eKA4kuAmd_0sxpzAiA/w466-h640/Micro%20+%20Wild%20Area%205%20001.jpg" width="466" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Charles River White Geese Blog</div>Friends of the White Geesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15025693929295904242noreply@blogger.com