Charles River: Request to DCR - Fire Key Charles River Manager for Fraud.

Charles River: Request to DCR - Fire Key Charles River Manager for Fraud.

I. Introduction.
II. Key provisions.
A. DCR 0. Supplement / Executive Summary.
B. DCR 5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.
C. DCR 5.C.  c. 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.
D. Blog Report, 1.e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”
III. Link and key photos.
IV. Letter to DCR main, unedited.
V. Link to blog post appended in whole to DCR communication following the above.


I. Introduction.

The situation at Magazine Beach on the Charles River after the “public meeting” on Thursday is that proposed tree destruction has gone from 42 overall with 23 on the hill above the playing field to, and, this is a minimal number: 51 overall, 30 on the hill.

This number allows for the outright fraud and for increases in the latest plans.  I have not fully evaluated the latest plans to see if there are more secret omissions of added destruction.

Here is a photo of the threatened grove at an appreciative distance.  It needs to be viewed from a distance to be appreciated.

Here are photos of the grove of ten trees from the ground.

Here is the lie submitted by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Cambridge Conservation Commission.  The TEN TREES are shown on the right side, a third of the way from the bottom, as THREE trees.

I am doing the best a private party can do in these counts, dealing with bureaucrats who routinely lie through omission and other forms of very real lies.  It is almost certain I will get something wrong.  That is forced when you are doing your best to wade through a corrupt package.

The key manager should be placed in the firing process and his application to the Cambridge Conservation Commission withdrawn with an apology by the Department of Conservation and Recreation because the plans KNOWINGLY LIE.  They reflect 10 trees on the hill as 3.

For this deliberate falsification of plans alone, the key manager should be suspended and placed in the firing review process, and the DCR should apologize to the Cambridge Conservation Commission and withdraw the application.

Thursday night varied between this outright fraud and the sort of gentlemen’s fraud which is so normal with the City of Cambridge and its accomplices.

A “public meeting” with a time limit saw the key speaker speak VERY SLOWLY and drag things to yell lack of time at the end.  And thus conduct a fraudulent “public meeting” which prevented public comment.

I will go into the knowing fraud below.  The gentlemen’s fraud was dominated by lying through word games.

Basically, a lot of excellent trees are being destroyed and the DCR claims to have a right to destroy them because they might die in the next 10, or 20, or 30 or 40, or 50 years.  They are beyond their prime.  How dare you expect the DCR not to destroy them.

Excellence of the trees being destroyed is no excuse according to this fraudulent sales pitch.

A tiny number of nearly problematic trees were given as example and there are trees in bad shape.

The trees that I am aware of that are in worst shape are trees which the DCR and Cambridge planted in the outrage of the 2000s.  There are three (out of 50 plus proposed for destruction) which are in terrible shape.  These are DCR trees from the 2000s.  There are a small number of others which are far along.

Most of the trees this destructive entity wants to destroy are truly excellent trees, using a lie of word games.  “Declining” includes trees beyond the mid point of their life even though they are massive, excellent and very much worthy of admiration.

Here is an excellent example of the vileness of this lie.

Here is the grove of ten excellent trees which dominates the view of the Magazine Beach hill from the Magazine Beach playing fields.  The DCR wants to destroy them all.  It also lies that the ten trees are only three trees, and calls all of them “in decline,” and thus worthy of destruction by them.

I gave closer shots of this excellent grove above.

I am going to proceed with my email communication of the early morning of October 21, 2016, to DCR headquarters by pulling out portions for the purpose of communicating with you.  I will follow up with the communication unedited and a link to my last report on this blog, which was reproduced in full in the DCR headquarters communication following what is reproduced here.

II. Key provisions.

A. DCR 0. Supplement / Executive Summary.

It is my strong opinion, as it has been since my initial exposure to him in 2000, that Mr. Corsi should be fired for incompetence.

Please see point 5.c in this main document, below, and section 1.e. in the copy following the main document which copy transmits my comments on the view on Wednesday, October 19, during which the fraud in the filing was admitted with a bizarre claims of reality.

The fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission adds to grounds for firing.

That fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission should cause the Department of Conservation and Recreation to withdraw the currently pending Magazine Beach application to the Cambridge Conservation Commission with apologies to the CCC.

The next meeting of the CCC is next Monday evening.  Responsible action should be taken by then.  That will give you time for a site visit, preferably today (Cambridge work hours end at 12 noon), and a comparison of the fraudulent plans to reality, followed by suspension of Corsi, followed by termination after proper due process.

This email is being copied to the Cambridge Conservation Commission because of the fraud in the filing and because one or more Commission members and / or staff were present during the admission, with bizarre explanation, of the fraud.

B. DCR 5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.

A review of my video on the hundreds of trees already destroyed, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o will show you the lack of fitness of your MDC bequeathed employees.

A review of my posts with photographs, at the following URLs will show you the horror which your unfit employees are implementing:

C. DCR 5.C.  c. 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.

Note: this was written before the view.  At that time, I did not realize that the MDC / DCR plans submitted to the Conservation Commission were FALSIFIED, at minimum lying that TEN TREES were THREE.  So I referred to three where there really are ten.

I am still in the process of evaluation.  Clearly the situation is, not surprisingly, very terrible.

[ed.  Please follow the link.]

D. Blog Report, 1.e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”

On October 17, working from the plans I had on hand and the 200 or so photos I have taken, I reported an excellent trio of trees being destroyed in a location which is a the edge of the top of the hill / bath house area.  That trio of trees form an excellent backdrop for the playing fields.

That was reported at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.

When I got the tour guide to that point, I pointed out that there are a lot more than three trees in that location.  There clearly are ten free standing trees there not three.

Another secret, dirty definition.

What happens is that the trees, to my view, have been planted close together so that they can be grown together, but they have not been grown together yet and the DCR intends to destroy them before they get a chance to grow together.

There are a number of excellent examples of this type of single large tree creation from multiple trees in the Newport mansion area.

These ten independent trees are shown on the DCR’s maps as three trees.  The latest map shows the three “trees” in decline.  So they call them three trees because they could be grown into and merged into three trees.  But they also call them in “decline”.

But it is ten trees the DCR is calling in “decline.” And they want to destroy about two thirds of them before they can merge.

So the ten separate trees will not be allowed to merge but nevertheless, the ten separate trees are called “three?”

And it would be silly to consider the merged tree as mature until the ten trees are merged into the merged tree.  So the three merged trees cannot possibly be in decline before merger occurs.  But the DCR lies that ten trees are three trees there and that the three trees are in decline.

Flat out lying.

III. Link and key photos.

The blog post which was appended to the end may be read at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-spot-report-tour-of.html.

I have presented the key photos and the lying plans are presented at the beginning of this report.

Here is my fact sheet passed to the chair of the fake public input meeting.

IV. Letter to DCR main, unedited.

RE: Magazine Beach Fake Public Hearing; Request for Firing of Key Manager for Fraud in Filing with Cambridge Conservation Commission and for Incompetence.

0. Supplement / Executive Summary.
1. Fake Public Hearing
2. This outrage is part of the Reason the Legislature destroyed the MDC.
3. Quality of vegetation being destroyed.
4. Contempt for the Charles / Deliberate Starvation of Resident Animals / Tourist Attractions.  DELIBERATE, HEARTLESS ANIMAL ABUSE.
5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.
6. Example of the lack of fitness of the MDC/DCR’s designated “protector.”
7. Contractors love you.
8. Environmental destruction which would be major except for the very much more major outrages from your MDC graduates.
9. My detailed analysis on the view of October 19.

Breakout of analysis of October 19 view:

1. Corrupt Games on trees.
a. Introduction.
b. Lying through word games.
c. Repeated and routine changes.
d. An excellent tree may be destroyed because it is in “decline”.
e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”
f. Trees put in as part of the starvation wall will be redefined as “saved” trees.
2. Tiny opening in Starvation Wall.
3. Lawn to the river.
4. Boat Club
5 Summary.



0. Supplement / Executive Summary.

It is my strong opinion, as it has been since my initial exposure to him in 2000, that Mr. Corsi should be fired for incompetence.

Please see point 5.c in this main document, below, and section 1.e. in the copy following the main document which copy transmits my comments on the view on Wednesday, October 19, during which the fraud in the filing was admitted with a bizarre claims of reality.

The fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission adds to grounds for firing.

That fraud in the filing with the Cambridge Conservation Commission should cause the Department of Conservation and Recreation to withdraw the currently pending Magazine Beach application to the Cambridge Conservation Commission with apologies to the CCC.

The next meeting of the CCC is next Monday evening.  Responsible action should be taken by then.  That will give you time for a site visit, preferably today (Cambridge work hours end at 12 noon), and a comparison of the fraudulent plans to reality, followed by suspension of Corsi, followed by termination after proper due process.

This email is being copied to the Cambridge Conservation Commission because of the fraud in the filing and because one or more Commission members and / or staff were present during the admission, with bizarre explanation, of the fraud.

1. Fake Public Hearing

Your hearing of October 20, 2016 was a fraud conducted on short and nearly nonexistent notice, in the manner regularly conducted by your graduates from the Metropolitan District Commission.

The speaker stretched out his presentation SLOWLY so as to fill all the time allotted and prevent meaningful input, a follow up on maneuvering the legislature to go forward on the destruction of hundreds of trees earlier this year by making “valid” approvals which expired years ago.

Your fraudulent performances have been so bad that NOW EXPIRED hearings on destruction of those hundreds of trees which you accomplished in January and February were conducted in the bowels of MIT to prevent public comment.  This was one more of the same fraud.

Enclosed is my public fact sheet which I submitted to the chair and incorporated by reference recognizing that public comment had been carefully prevented by stretching out and stretching out VERY SLOWLY the presentation.

To summarize the below, the DCR through its destructive MDC incompetents is unfit for management of the Charles River and should be replaced by MassDOT which has been the adult in the room on key matters with the DCR/MDC and the City of Cambridge.  Replacement should specifically prohibit transfer of DCR/MDC planners and managers.

The City of Cambridge MAY be cleaning up their problems by the City Council’s selection of a new City Manager who is not a direct part of the outrage of the last 42 years.  Hopefully the DCR or the legislature will end the outrages for which the DCR/MDC is responsible without further outrages.

2. This outrage is part of the Reason the Legislature destroyed the MDC.

One reason why the legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission was that it was so destructive.

And what has been done to Memorial Drive and is being done to Memorial Drive WITH MDC PLANS is exactly why the legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission.

So a bunch of bureaucrats who were unfit for their jobs with the MDC were transferred to the DCR with irresponsible plans and fake definition of terms and lying through omission.

You are destroying a bunch of excellent trees using code words with secret meanings and they do not even fit the secret meanings.

The unfair definitions are so bad that, in one key location, YOUR UNFIT EMPLOYEES DEFINED ten trees as three.

3. Quality of vegetation being destroyed.

Most trees being destroyed are excellent.  Excellent trees are being destroyed because they, while excellent, have passed the 50% point on their lifespan but, much more importantly, because the contractors need money, and a brief look at the 50 trees and climbing being destroyed, not just the tiny minority they brag of destroying, with show you that you have unfit employees.

4. Contempt for the Charles / Deliberate Starvation of Resident Animals / Tourist Attractions.  DELIBERATE, HEARTLESS ANIMAL ABUSE.

Your unfit employees claim to love the Charles River, and one of the almost total unnegotiable points is blocking off the Charles River.  With a wall of bushes preventing access to the animals who have lived and fed on these grasses for most of the last 35 years because the MDC, now DCR has a policy of killing off or driving away all resident animals.

That wall of bushes installed through the usual lies of omission has cause human beings to avoid the Charles area which should be the big attraction.

And the beautiful, TOURIST ATTRACTION Charles River White Geese are deliberately starved by a long, bizarre wall preventing access TO WHERE THEY LIVED AND FED FOR MOST OF THE LAST 35 YEARS.  The MDC, now DCR’s policy is heartless animal abuse.  So that is what you are doing.

This bizarre wall is being partially “lowered” while keeping it high enough to implement the deliberate starvation and to destroy Magazine Beach as a water related resource.

This bizarre wall was created through flat out lying in the supposedly sacred Charles River Master Plan.  Plans for the playing fields described as a “Lawn to the River,” words which were changed after the lies paved the way.

The bizarre wall is another ADMITTED failure.

The treatment of the Charles River White Geese at their Destroyed Nesting Area to which they have been confined without food has included actions so bad that the Cambridge Conservation Commission stepped in.  And your incompetent manager ordered the destroying parties to cease their outrage WITHIN THE TINY JURISDICTION OF THE CCC, WHILE SPECIFICALLY ALLOWING CONTINUED OUTRAGES outside that small area.

5. Documentation of MDC / DCR unfitness, including unfitness of supposed “protectors” of the neighborhood.

A review of my video on the hundreds of trees already destroyed, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o will show you the lack of fitness of your MDC bequeathed employees.

A review of my posts with photographs, at the following URLs will show you the horror which your unfit employees are implementing:

a. 10/18/16, Swimming Pool Destruction, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-destruction-threatened.html, goes into the outrage around the Swimming Pool.

b. 10/16/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.  Excellent grove being destroyed which is on the hill, but towers over the playing fields.

c. 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.

Note: this was written before the view.  At that time, I did not realize that the MDC / DCR plans submitted to the Conservation Commission were FALSIFIED, at minimum lying that TEN TREES were THREE.  So I referred to three where there really are ten.

I am still in the process of evaluation.  Clearly the situation is, not surprisingly, very terrible.

d 10/12/16, Charles River, First Magazine Beach Photos, Hill / Swimming Pool DESTRUCTION.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.  Provides photos of doomed trees on the hill west of the playing fields.

e. 10/6/16, Charles River, Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Plea to Cambridge.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-magazine-beach.html.  Includes extensive analysis of a corrupt governmental situation.

The Cambridge City Council is taking action hopefully, to end the City Manager Machine outrage which has been in place since 1974.  The City Manager select to which this letter is addressed is the first new manager since 1974 who is not the top management assistant to his predecessor.  As of this writing, he is still being worked into his new office.

And that City Manager machine is the one around which has been created the fake “protective” groups such as that Ms. Suzi represents.  Her group brags that it has A DUTY TO CENSOR ALL comments on its Listserv negative to the City Manager / his friends.

The fake group fits into a Machine starting with the first of the, hopefully outgoing, City Manager Machine city managers.  James Leo Sullivan had been fired in the 60s.  When he was rehired in 1974, he promised to create a system of “neighborhood associations” which in turn, have people who go to the city government to find out what they think.  I am aware key group member bragging of “expertise,” but in the fine print bragging of going to the City Manager Machine to find out what they think.

The basis for Ms. Suzi’s supposed representation of the neighborhood is a fraudulent machination on April 23, 2013.  They tried to get support for the current outrage in their January 2013 MONTHLY meeting, and could not because of very real displeasure in the meeting, so they told a displeased public meeting to come back at their next monthly meeting.  They then conducted their next monthly meeting more three months later to drive away responsible people.

A horribly complicated motion was discussed in the last ten minutes of the meeting and kept secret until them.  They had driven away responsible people, but they took no chances on any semblance of responsibility.

Since then, they have functioned as an efficient company union, conducting their monthly meetings on a suddenly bimonthly basis.  They openly prevent discussion of environmental outrages until the last ten minutes, timing which is EXACTLY WHAT YOUR INCOMPETENT MANAGERS DID on October 20.

f. 10/3/16, Charles River:  Cambridge Cheerleaders fight to Destroy 42 MORE Trees, at Magazine Beach.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-cambridge-cheerleaders.html.

This series of reports is not complete.  To continue watching YOUR outrages, simply subscribe to the reports at charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com.

The lies of omission are getting more clear, as shown here and in the attached factsheet.  The lies of fake definitions, like the TEN TREES which show up as THREE TREES on the plan are also becoming more clear.

6. Example of the lack of fitness of the MDC/DCR’s designated “protector.”

You have an unfit bunch of employees feeding into a terrible situation in the City of Cambridge with a destructive city government in power as a directly related series of City Managers since 1974.  Around this destructive City Manager Machine has been created a destructive collection of “protective groups” which simply obey orders.

An excellent example of lack of fitness of the City of Cambridge machine into which your unfit employees are feeding occurred when Dr. Robin Pope, a visiting professor and international expert and scholar attempted to communicate to Kathy Suzi after the fake public meeting.  Kathy Suzi is your MDC incompetents designated “defender” of the world.  Pope’s impassioned and well spoken EXPERT plea was replied to by Suzi with directions to talk to your unfit manager on the grounds that he is the guy who does the thinking.

Dr. Pope is doing extended research here as part of her duties with the University of Graz in Austria.  She lives in the Hyatt Regency Cambridge.

Suzi, in turn, is the third head the fake “protective” organization has had in a year.  The “leaders” are running away from the terrible things you AND THEY are doing, washing their hands of responsibility which they really share.

7. Contractors love you.

But the contractors love it.  Among so many other blatant wastes of money, they are paid to destroy excellent trees and they are paid to install saplings to replace trees which should not be destroyed.

8. Environmental destruction which would be major except for the very much more major outrages from your MDC graduates.

We have an annual algae blight on the Charles River which stems from your MDC people’s love for the use of poisons on the banks of the Charles River.  One year, their beloved poisons did not work as well as they would like at Ebersol Field near Massachusetts General Hospital, so they dumped poisons on the riverbank marked “DO NOT USE NEAR WATER.”  THE NEXT DAY the Charles River was dead from Boston Harbor to the Mass. Ave. Bridge.

And, as predicted then, the infestation created by your incompetent MDC graduates comes back every year.

Responsible grass management during the 20th Century was replaced, with lies of omission, at the Magazine Beach Playing Fields with poison maintenance.  The poisons, like the bizarre wall were kept secret during planning and simply done.

The poisons have been a failure.  So USE OF POISONS IS BEING EXPANDED to the balance of the area, the top of the hill and the swimming pool area.

To allow for the addition of poisons at the playing fields, the MDC spent money creating a drainage system to drain off poisons which should not be used in the first place.

Your latest destruction includes another expensive drainage system to drain off the added use of poisons.

But the contractors love it.  They are paid to create drainage for poisons which were not needed in the 20th Century and which should not be used now, but they are very happy, and the contractor lobby loves to show up for meetings praising an incompetent management team.

9. My detailed analysis on the view of October 19.

Following is a direct copy of my blog report on the October 19, site review.  The negative comments are fully made part of this analysis.

Please note that the preceding analysis has attempted to minimize duplication of these comments.

V. Link to blog post appended in whole to DCR communication following the above.

The blog post which was appended to the end may be read at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-spot-report-tour-of.html.

Charles River: SPOT REPORT: Tour of Magazine Beach Destruction: Fraud gets Worse

Charles River: SPOT REPORT: Tour of Magazine Beach Destruction: Fraud gets Worse


1. Corrupt Games on trees.
a. Introduction.
b. Lying through word games.
c. Repeated and routine changes.
d. An excellent tree may be destroyed because it is in “decline”.
e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”
f. Trees put in as part of the starvation wall will be redefined as “saved” trees.
2. Tiny opening in Starvation Wall.
3. Lawn to the river.
4. Boat Club
5 Summary.


1. Corrupt Games on trees.

a. Introduction.

I am writing in the evening of October 19, 2016.

I just completed a tour of the Magazine Beach destruction area run by the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation for the Cambridge Conservation Commission.

I have been faced with the usual corrupt games.

b. Lying through word games.

The most basic corrupt tactic is that the bad guys play games with words.  They define words to suit whatever lie they are putting out, and the redefinitions, somehow NEVER work against the goals of the bad guys.

I call that lying.

c. Repeated and routine changes.

First of all, the plans have changed to include outright admission of more destruction.  It took a pulling teeth exercise to get that out of them, but I got a copy of the modified plans.

It is a fool’s dilemma to treat these constant maneuvers as good faith.  I just consider the maneuvers as more lying, and the constantly shifting baseline is just another tactic to get the good guys to chase their tails to try to be fair.  With regard to  the people with whom we are dealing, fair play is a game, a weakness for the bad guys to take advantage of.

I will give the non stop games the respect they deserve, and the respect they deserve is flat out contempt.

I will live with the games so as to recognize them editorially, and I will to try to figure out reality in spite of the games.  I will not sucker into trying to recognize every “modification” or “definition” except in accordance with reality.

AT MINIMUM, 2 more trees are admitted as being destroyed.

d. An excellent tree may be destroyed because it is in “decline”.

First of all, another example of lying through definition.

The plans shown today show a lot of trees “declining.”  My understanding is there is a point where a tree is at its peak, comparable to middle age in humans.  Under the DCR’s definition of “decline,” there is a point of tree middle age which is the peak, perfection of treedom.

Under their secret definition, and translating the latest plans passed out, any tree which has reached peak maturity YESTERDAY, is now in decline.

EVEN IF IT IS A CLEARLY EXCELLENT TREE.

In human terms, say you consider 45 to be peak maturity for a human being.  Under the DCR argument, once that person OR TREE passed peak middle age, 45, it is in decline and the DCR has a right to destroy it using that as an excuse.

Just more lying.

There are a lot of clearly excellent trees they claim to have a right to destroy because they are “in decline” , ONE DAY or more beyond that magic day of perfection, EVEN IF THEY ARE CLEARLY EXCELLENT TREES.

e. Bizarre SECRET definition of “trees”

On October 17, working from the plans I had on hand and the 200 or so photos I have taken, I reported an excellent trio of trees being destroyed in a location which is a the edge of the top of the hill / bath house area.  That trio of trees form an excellent backdrop for the playing fields.

That was reported at:  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.

When I got the tour guide to that point, I pointed out that there are a lot more than three trees in that location.  There clearly are ten free standing trees there not three.

Another secret, dirty definition.

What happens is that the trees, to my view, have been planted close together so that they can be grown together, but they have not been grown together yet and the DCR intends to destroy them before they get a chance to grow together.

There are a number of excellent examples of this type of single large tree creation from multiple trees in the Newport mansion area.

These ten independent trees are shown on the DCR’s maps as three trees.  The latest map shows the three “trees” in decline.  So they call them three trees because they could be grown into and merged into three trees.  But they also call them in “decline”.

But it is ten trees the DCR is calling in “decline.” And they want to destroy about two thirds of them before they can merge.

So the ten separate trees will not be allowed to merge but nevertheless, the ten separate trees are called “three?”

And it would be silly to consider the merged tree as mature until the ten trees are merged into the merged tree.  So the three merged trees cannot possibly be in decline before merger occurs.  But the DCR lies that ten trees are three trees there and that the three trees are in decline.

Flat out lying.

f. Trees put in as part of the starvation wall will be redefined as “saved” trees.

They suddenly discovered that the INTRODUCED wall of bushes includes trees.  They want to keep the wall blocking to starve the Charles River White Geese, so they are recognizing introduced stuff that grew into trees, which they will now recognize as trees being saved.

2. Tiny opening in Starvation Wall.

The Starvation Wall has a tiny opening in it.

It has suddenly be defined as a kayuk ramp, the first time that term has ever been used.  The reality is that the opening corresponds to an opening the highway the DCR and Cambridge wanted to use to connect to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.  IN THE CHARLES RIVER.

This clearly has proven to be more blatantly irresponsible than they can get away with.

So they now call it a kayuk ramp.

A fake pond was initially created which the Charles River White Geese loved and used to access their feeding area of most of the last 35 years.  Failure to starve the Charles River White Geese was unacceptable, so it was converted into an artificial wetlands, and a massive internal wall of introduced shrubs was added to REALLY prevent access.

The tiny opening is being expanded.  It is now officially a kayak ramp, and the DCR wants to force the public to pay to use any boats larger than a kayak.

So they are adding a permanent structure for observation, which would be more difficult to destroy later, and bragging that they are “allowing” kayaks.

3. Lawn to the river.

The DCR, or somebody, mentioned the requirements of the sanctified Charles River Master Plan.

I pointed out that the starvation wall is sitting in the middle of an area promised to be a LAWN TO THE RIVER.

They do not want a LAWN TO THE RIVER.  They do not want MEANINGFUL ACCESS TO THE RIVER.  That would prevent their deliberate starvation of the Charles River White Geese.

We got a whole bunch of confusion after that.

4. Boat Club

There is a boat club in the area which I have called the western area because it is on that portion of the destruction plans.  The Boat Club members use the parking lot behind the swimming pool.

I pointed out to one of the members that trees are being destroyed (and the number being destroyed is increasing) to move the parking lot.

The member was very insistent that the Boat Club owns the parking lot and that the DCR has no business destroying anything there.  He, furthermore, was very insistent there is no plan to do such a thing.

I pointed out that the DCR disagrees with him and was just showing off the level of destruction.

I anticipate the member was wrong, but this sort of situation helps the achievement of irresponsible behavior.  The bureaucrats keep things as secret as possible.  They satisfy the minimum, and that is it.  Meaningful communication might force the bureaucrats to be responsible.

To the bureaucrats, responsible behavior is not acceptable.

5 Summary.

I have tried to get this down as fast as possible.  It is now about an hour and a half since the end of the tour, and you have gotten my fresh recollection.

As I have gone through this, photos would have been excellent.  You have one link which will give key photos, and I expect I am going to have to get photos of that “three” trees which, in reality are ten.

This is part of the reason why the Legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission.  The MDC was very destructive.  Their planners went to the DCR and are DESTROYING.

I will try to minimize my detailed response of the con games.

These people and their games deserve no respect.

Charles River: Destruction Threatened around Magazine Beach Swimming Pool.

Charles River:   Destruction Threatened around Magazine Beach Swimming Pool.

0. Supplement.
1. Introduction.
2. Destruction plans.
3. Doomed trees, swimming pool.
a. Views from across the street.
b. Views from the Magazine Beach area.
4. Summary.
5. Prior reports.
a. Accomplished Destruction.
b. This series, current threats.

0. Supplement.

These reports are issued in three formats.  This blog has the complete report.

Condensed reports are published on Facebook and in an email mailing.  Both include the URL for the complete report.

As I went to put out the condensed reports, I received a communication from the key woman who has been in the middle of the fight for massive destruction of the environment on the Charles River.

She and her friends pulled a Company Union fraud which could have been key in the destruction of hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive this year.

Now she is putting out the flat out lie. that the trees she is fighting to destroy at Magazine Beach NEED to be destroyed.

I have seen way too much of this sort of behavior under the Cambridge City Manager Machine which has been in power in Cambridge since 1974.  Honesty will not get the bad guys the terrible things they have fought for because Cambridge has an electorate which wants a responsible government.

So a well organized small minority indulges in corrupt tactics to achieve the goals of a bad city government / its friends in spite of the direct conflict with the clearly wished goals of so many Cambridge residents.  A tiny number of people can raise Hell with a bunch of well meaning people who do not understand but want to be fair.

It is my very strong hope that the City Manager select will clean up the mess which has dominated politics in the City of Cambridge in an increasingly effective manner starting in 1974.


1. Introduction.

This report is the latest in a series.  The series, with URL’s is presented in the last part of the report.

This report concentrates on destruction at the Magazine Beach swimming pool.


2. Destruction plans.

First of all, here is a satellite photo of this portion of Cambridge and the Charles River.  Magazine Beach IS the curve of the river.  Boston is below the river, Cambridge above.

Here is the index to the destruction plans.

To use these on our scanner, we have divided each page into two parts: right / left, west / east.

On the plan of plans, the western part of the destruction area leads, followed by the swimming pool area, followed by the hill / bath house area, followed by the playing fields.

This report concerns the swimming pool area, so here is the relevant part of that page.  The right hand side includes no trees, so I am not repeating it.

The vaguely rectangular building is the swimming pool.

The massive destruction on the hill is connected to the swimming pool on the right, so please review that report to place this destruction in context.  It is all one irresponsible package.  Document links in section 4 provides this information.

To place things in context, here is the destruction plan to the east of the swimming pool.

3. Doomed trees, swimming pool.

a. Views from across the street.

The most irresponsible destruction faces Memorial Drive.

Here is the view approaching the swimming pool.  This area was reported in the first hill destruction report.  However, the view from Memorial Drive was not provided.

Please compare this photo to the relevant photos and plan for the hill.

The big yellow tree is NOT BEING destroyed.  There are very few other trees in this photo which are also not being destroyed.

This is the same scorched earth destruction practiced by the DCR, Cambridge and their cheerleaders between the BU and Longfellow Bridges, where more destruction is yet to come.

Moving west.  A tree behind the yellow tree is being destroyed, then the next tree to the west is destroyed.

Then one tree is not destroyed.  Looking at the positioning on the plan, it looks like the small yellow tree is being destroyed, and there is another tree mostly hidden by the big yellow tree that is not being destroyed.

Moving west with the camera, the big yellow tree at the entrance dominates the photo. Then follows one tree with leaves and one leafless street trees which are not being destroyed.  After them is a yellow leaved tree which is being destroyed.

Moving west, the doomed yellow leaved tree is followed by another doomed street tree.  Both are dwarfed by a large tree behind them which is not being destroyed.

Moving further west, the doomed tree west of the yellow doomed tree can be seen more clearly.  This is a significant tree.

My guess is that these street trees are being destroyed to extend the gold plated bike highway which replaces the existing perfectly good bike highway, and which is the supposed cause of the destruction of so many of the hundreds of trees between the BU and Longfellow Bridge.

The waste is so blatant, it is silly to consider these outrages as other than Make Work for Contractors.

Proceeding west, three out of four trees between the sidewalk and the parking lot are being destroyed.  This includes one extremely large tree, of the scale of the one which is not being destroyed and which overwhelms the street trees just shown.  There are two others of significant scale being destroyed and one tiny tree not being destroyed.  The tiny tree not being destroyed is probably on the right with the brown leaves.

The trees hidden by the tree behind the yellow tree look like the victims.

This looks like the two largest condemned trees with the little safe tree to their right.


b. Views from the Magazine Beach area.

Looking from the parking lot, I think the three trees on the left are the three doomed trees.  The nearest tree on the left is the one which previously could not be seen.

Here is a photo from the parking lot, looking past the yellow tree into the swimming pool.  Note the paving on either side of the yellow tree.  The yellow tree is doomed.

Looking at the lay of the parking lot, my guess is that the massive tree straight ahead but partially blocked right and left is doomed.


4. Summary.

Nothing has changed in the 16 years I have been following the vile behavior of Cambridge and the state bureaucracy on this part of the Charles River except that the destructive bureaucrats have been moved to a different department.

The legislature tried to protect the Charles River from a truly reprehensible bureaucracy which operates in lock step with a bad government in the City of Cambridge.  They destroyed the entity containing the bureaucracy, but transferred the irresponsible bureacrats, AND THEIR PLANS, to the DCR.

I have tried for years to avoid mentioning the fraudulent groups which grease the way for a bad government.  I have been forced to mention them.

The fake group through most of this has been the falsely named, and very destructive Charles River Conservancy.  They bragged about the misleading arguments by which they obtained the destruction money for the hundreds of trees destruction.  During the middle of this, dah dah, yet another fake protective group friendly to the City Manager’s people announced its creation and took over with the company union con game which is so popular with groups aligned with the City Manager’s people.

Now the latest fake group has gone public.  It is no longer just a con game.  Their latest leader has publicly supported the destruction of 42 trees in the area for which this fraudulent group has proclaimed love.

The destruction on both sides of the swimming pool is one big outrage.

The city council has replaced the retiring third City Manager of the Cambridge City Manager machine with a manager who is not the primary assistant to that third face in the Machine.  The City Manager position has been passed from City Manager to key assistant, an on.  The City Manager select has been strictly in the financial part of the city government.

That is an improvement, I hope.  We will have to watch the performance of the City Manager select, who has yet to take office.  So far the Acting City Manager is the assistant to the prior one.


5. Prior reports.

a.  Accomplished Destruction.

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

b.  This series, current threats.

(1). 9/28/16, Government Agency Expanding Poison Usage on the Charles River, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/govt-agency-expanding-poison-usage-on.html.
(2). 10/1/16, City Council Extends 42 Year City Manager Machine?  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/cambridge-ma-extends-destructive-42_1.html.  Note: includes links to Court Decisions / “non” Decision damning deliberate Civil Rights violations by the then Cambridge City Manager.  The "non" decision was the Appeals Court panel's denial of Cambridge's appeal.  They refused to dignify the appeal with a formal opinion, but it certainly looks like an opinion.
(3). 10/3/16, Charles River:  Cambridge Cheerleaders fight to Destroy 42 MORE Trees, at Magazine Beach.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-cambridge-cheerleaders.html.
(4). 10/6/16, Charles River, Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Plea to Cambridge.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-magazine-beach.html.  Includes extensive analysis of a corrupt governmental situation.
(5). 10/12/16, Charles River, First Magazine Beach Photos, Hill / Swimming Pool DESTRUCTION.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.  Provides photos of doomed trees on the hill west of the playing fields.
(6). 10/17/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.   http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-first-magazine-beach.html.
(7). 10/16/16, Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.  http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/10/charles-river-another-magnificent-grove.html.  Excellent grove being destroyed which is on the hill, but towers over the playing fields.

Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.

Charles River: Another magnificent grove threatened by DCR and its Accomplices.

I recently published a number of posts which reported major destruction proposed by the Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation at Magazine Beach, particularly in the hill area.  Of 42 trees slated to be destroyed, 23 are in that area between the pedestrian overpass and the swimming pool building.

In my hill area report, I omitted a magnificent, dominant grave slated for destruction in this area.

Here, again, is the destruction plan for the hill area.

Note the three doomed trees together at the right about a third of the way from the bottom.

They look a lot better in person:

The trees to the right.

On the left in this photo.

On the right in this photo.  The bath house is visible to their left.

Proud and doomed by an entity the legislature tried to protect the Charles River from.  The Department of Conservation and Recreation is unfit to manage the environment.  It should be replaced by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.  MassDOT has been the adult in the room on key matters with the DCR and Cambridge on the wrong side.

I have gone into much greater detail on the guilt of the City of Cambridge in my letter to the City Council and the incoming City Manager which I posted on this blog.

Now retired City Manager Rossi conducted a meeting last year at the main branch of the Public Library, in which he bragged of magnificent improvements coming on the Charles River.

I did not attend because the lies of omission have been so rampant.  Since his bragging, hundreds of trees have been destroyed between the BU and Longfellow Bridges with more to come.

And now the DCR is bragging WITH LIES OF OMISSION of all its “improvements” to Magazine Beach.  The count, including this excellent grove is 42 trees to be destroyed in the Magazine Beach recreational area including 23 on the hill around the Bath House, including this grove.

The fake neighborhood association fought for the hundreds of destroyed trees by telling people to only look at the bath house area through standard Company Union tactics.  The fake group’s latest “leader” supported all proposed Magazine Beach tree destruction in front of the Cambridge Conservation Commission, including, WITHOUT EXCEPTION all of the destruction around her supposedly beloved bath house..

Charles River, First Magazine Beach Photos, Hill / Swimming Pool DESTRUCTION

Charles River, First Magazine Beach Photos, Hill / Swimming Pool DESTRUCTION

1. Introduction.
2. Part of the COMING outrage in some photos.

1. Introduction.

I took approximately 200 photos of the threatened Magazine Beach recreation area over the past week.

I had intended to defer publication of the photos until I created a massive letter for transmittal to the Cambridge City Council.

I am afraid that the vileness, the hypocrisy of the enemy has just gotten to me.

The reality is that this is just one part of a long lasting fraud going on in the City of Cambridge by which a lot of destruction has been achieved in Cambridge by the City of Cambridge and its accomplices in which the way has been greased by fake protective groups which commonly have great affection for to the City of Cambridge, but neglect to mention that great affection for the City of Cambridge when they proclaim their “protective group” status.

The Company Union which claims to be defending the adjoining Cambridgeport neighborhood has spouted non stop lies about love for the Charles River and Magazine Beach.  The lies have centered for several years on one building, a bath house which has not been used for 80 years.

The pitch is stereotype company union fraud.  The Company Union loudly claims to be defending an excellent cause, and then, after establishing false credentials, fights against its stated cause by telling well intended people not to look at outrages it really is fighting for.

For at least four years or so, this fake group fought for the destruction of hundreds of trees on Memorial Drive using this fraud.  Translation “Look at Magazine Beach.  Look at the Bathhouse.  How dare you look at what we and our friends are destroying.”

The outrage by Cambridge and the DCR this Company Union fought for, and has heavily achieved,  is recorded at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.

2. Part of the COMING outrage in some photos.

The fraud has centered on supposed love for a 19th / 20th  Century Bathhouse which has not been used for 80 years.

The latest leader of this particular Company Union, at the Cambridge Conservation Commission hearing on September 26, PUBLICLY supported the destruction of 42 trees in the Magazine Beach recreation area including 23 trees which are part of the framing of her supposedly beloved bathhouse.

The following is just part of the destruction plans for the hill / bathhouse area.  These plans are PART OF MUCH LARGER DESTRUCTION PLANS SHE SUPPORTED. We have posted at the full destruction plans at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/charles-river-latest-magazine-beach.htm.

On the destruction plan, the bathhouse is the near rectangle slightly left of and below the center of the plan.  As you look toward the top of the plan (north), left (west) and middle, the doomed trees constitute almost every tree in their groupings.

Here is the supposedly beloved bathhouse.  Most of the trees you see stand out in the plans because they are not being destroyed.  MORE THAN A MAJORITY of the trees to the right (west) and behind the camera (north) are slated to be destroyed.  The tree to the far left, looking at the destruction plans, is doomed.  All destruction will be WITH THE SUPPORT OF THIS COMPANY UNION LEADER.

Here are some excellent photos of threatened trees in the area that she lies that she loves.

In this photo, the fence is the fence around the swimming pool.  All of the four large trees lining the fence are DOOMED along with the large tree further out between the two middle trees.  Additionally, the two trees at the far left beyond the fencing are doomed, but in the next page of the destruction plans (and not counted by me in the above number).

On the plan, I count 14 doomed trees in the area near the swimming pool building alone (including the doomed parking lot), and there are 5 doomed trees just east (right)t of those trees along Memorial Drive.

In this photo, the ONLY readily visible tree not to be destroyed is the one with yellowed leaves.

In this photo, there may be two nearby trees which are not doomed.

My guess is that the two nearest trees are being destroyed.

This tree is doomed.

In this photo, at minimum, the two largest trees are doomed.

I have run out of time.

This is the CORE area this woman and her Company Union have spent years lying that they love.

This is the sort of fraud I have been standing up to since the 42 year Cambridge City Manager Machine came into place.

Right now, I do not have the time to pick out the doomed, tree by tree.  I will come back to do so.

It is not at all difficult to compare the plans to the photos.

Charles River, Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Plea to Cambridge

Charles River, Magazine Beach Destruction Plans, Plea to Cambridge

On October 5, 2016, I hand carried the following letter to the Cambridge City Clerk for delivery to the Cambridge City Council at its next meeting.

I tried to do the same to the new City Manager.  Unfortunately he is not in office yet.  The door to the City Manager suite has a blank for the name of the City Manager.  Next to that name is the space for his top manager.  Her name is there, and the title is changed to Acting City Manager.

I understand that the vote to hire Louis A. DePasquale as City Manager which occurred last Thursday, September 29, 2016, needs further action by the City Council to get City Manager Select Louis A. DePasquale in office.  I guess I have to hold his copy until he takes office.

With regard to the attachments, if you would like to view my video on the destruction of hundreds of trees destroyed so far by Cambridge and the DCR, please check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.

The destruction plans for Magazine Beach were posted at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/charles-river-latest-magazine-beach.html.

In the last two days, I have taken considerable photos on the playing fields and the hill.  I still need to shoot the swimming pool area later.  I will match things up and commence with the photo accumulation which created the video.

Lies are the norm in the City of Cambridge on environmental matters.  It is very difficult for bad people, with any semblance of credibility, to deny what is on the Internet for the destruction so far.

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October 5, 2016

City Manager Louis A DePasquale
City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA   02139

City Council
City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA   02139


RE: Governmental Destruction on the Charles River

Gentlemen / Ladies:

I write individually and as Chair of Friends of the White Geese, a non profit organization recognized by the Attorney General since 2001.  Our main purpose is to protect the environment and the wildlife of the Charles River.  The principal threat is destructive government actions.

A bit over a year ago, City Manager Rossi bragged to a meeting in the Public Library that Cambridge was greatly improving the Charles River in the City of Cambridge.

There has been a pattern in which the things which are not communicated in environmental matters are too often more important than the things which are said.

Of relevance to the promises of “improvements” by City Manager Rossi are the following:

1. The enclosed video prepared by me on the Destruction of Memorial Drive, Charles River, City of Cambridge, January - February 2016 [ed: obvious typo, 2015, in original].  Cambridge / the Department of Conservation and Resources admit to destruction of 150 trees as part of this outrage.  The plans, as detailed in the video, call for destruction of 100 or so more additional trees because of destruction shown in the destruction plans of the thick woods between the Grand Junction and the BU Boathouse.

I would be pleased to provide individual copies of this video for members of the Cambridge City Council, although I anticipate that members would prefer to simply review my identical publication of the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTplCCEJP7o.

2. The City Council’s extended discussions on a vehicular / pedestrian highway following the Grand Junction with what appears to be a terminal route in the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and associated animal abuse and environmental destruction.  The City Council has accumulated a large file on this matter, keeping the Charles River impact as secret as possible.

3. The enclosed destruction plans presented by the DCR to the Cambridge Conservation Commission on September 26, 2016.  I count destruction of an additional 42 trees, including

a. destruction of 9 trees at the playing fields,
b. destruction of 23 trees at the top of the hill west of the playing fields,
c. destruction of 9 trees in the swimming pool area, and
d. destruction of 1 tree in the western portion.

The destruction at the playing fields by itself would be outrageous.  It is dwarfed by plans at the top of the hill and by the outrage already accomplished and planned between Magazine Beach and the Longfellow bridge.  The hill plans include destruction of publicly usable parking.

I kept in contact with the City Council starting in September 2015 with emails three or more times a week.  The emails included photographs showing trees Cambridge and the DCR were threatening east of the BU Bridge.  That email communication package was extended to non incumbents in about October, and was extended to reports of destruction in January and February.

The City Council took action in January 2016 in the middle of the massive logging reported in the video.  The City Council, in January, chastised and regulated circuses passing through the City of Cambridge for animal abuse.  Whether this action was intended to be a response to the tree destruction, associated heartless animal abuse and related outrages by the DCR and Cambridge on the Charles River is difficult to ascertain.

City Manager Rossi has retired.  City Manager DePasquale was only, to my knowledge, involved in financial matters.

In the 2000s, Mr. Rossi managed the first phase of destruction at Magazine Beach destruction.  That resulted from a vote by the Cambridge City Council in December 1999.  That vote, in turn, was preceded by the promise of City Manager Healy that Cambridge’s money would be seed money for much larger destruction.

Mr. Rossi also managed the destruction of 3.4 acres or more at Alewife, and, I believe, the destruction on the Cambridge Common as well by which the excellent grove at the Harvard Square entrance was destroyed.

OUTRAGES DWARFED BY TREE DESTRUCTION WHICH WOULD RENDER THE DCR UNFIT ON THEIR OWN.

The destruction of the 2000s had two key aspects which were created by flat out lies or lies of omission.

● The Starvation Wall

Flat out lies created the failed 16 foot high wall of introduced vegetation which blocks access between the Charles River and Magazine Beach.

The DCR promised a lawn to the river, but fine print in their goals includes an outrageous goal to kill or drive away all resident animals on the Charles River.  The bizarre wall’s principal purpose is to starve the 35 year resident, and tourist attraction,  the Charles River White Geese.

A side effect of the maneuvers to kill this popular tourist attraction was the effective closing of the Charles River for almost all private boat access.

Users of the playing fields keep away from the Charles River area because this bizarre wall is offensive.  Users are kept from the Charles River and are offended by what is in place.

The DCR wants to keep this outrage with slight lowering in parts and in another part replacement by a permanent obstacle.  They brag that kayaks can get through their obstacle course, and lie through omission that they are blocking anything bigger.  They want to CHARGE people, further down the river, to use boats which the DCR and Cambride are preventing private parties from bringing to the river.

The bizarre bridge from the parking lot should be replaced with a functional access to the Charles for boat users.  The bizarre wall should be replaced with WHAT THE DCR PROMISED IN THE FIRST PLACE: a Lawn to the River.  The bizarre internal mass of vegetation which further blocks access should be removed.  Boat owners should once again be allowed to use the formerly public dock at the end of the parking lot.  

Charging people for a use that was formerly free and which can readily be returned is yet another outrageous act.

● Use of Poisons.

Magazine Beach survived for the better part of a Century with responsible, non poison, grass maintenance.  In the 2000s, the DCR did the unthinkable.  They introduced use of poisons for fertilizer.

This has also been a blatant failure, witness the playing fields.

So the DCR wants to multiply the use of poisons, putting in more poison drinking grass in the playing fields, and introducing use of poisons at the hill and behind the swimming pool.

During the Conservation Commission meeting, the DCR announced it planned to hire contractors to drain off new poisons behind the swimming pool, poisons which should not be used on the banks of the Charles River in the first place.  To be exact, the purpose of the drainage system was kept secret and the irresponsible people did not reply to my clearly accurate interpretation.

SUMMARY

These latter outrages on their own, WITHOUT THE DCR’S LOVE FOR MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF TREES prove the DCR unfit to manage Cambridge’s valuable open space.

Part of the agreement by which the City Council spent millions on the destruction of the 2000s at the playing fields was an agreement by which the DCR and Cambridge agreed that Cambridge would receive control of management of Magazine Beach.  The chief destroyer on the DCR management team has since reaffirmed the intention of the DCR to transfer management to the City of Cambridge whenever the City of Cambridge deemed it appropriate to visibly take responsibility for management of Magazine Beach.

Remember, Mr. Rossi publicly bragged of “improvements” on the Charles River.  Remember, Healy, in December 1999, sold the City Council on phase 1 of the Charles River outrages as “seed money” for what we are seeing now.  And the current City Council was deafeningly silent during the beginning of the current outrages in spite of multiple reports by me WITH PHOTOGRAPHS leading up to and during massive destruction.

The DCR and Cambridge accomplished the destruction described in the video years after approvals expired.  The DCR, claiming legislative fiat, refused to discuss the destruction, and the City Council, except for its admonishing transient circuses was deafeningly silent in response to my repeated emails.

I think a minimal response to the outrages which have started and which are multiplying is to obtain legislative approval to transfer all duties, responsibilities and funding of the DCR on the Charles River to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation without planners and / or managers.  

MassDOT is not perfect, but the DCR is a lot closer to being perfect in the wrong direction.  MassDOT has performed as the adult in the room on key matters.

Transfer without planners and / or managers is appropriate because the legislature destroyed the Metropolitan District Commission to protect public lands from the MDC.  The MDC planners and managers transferred to DCR and went ahead with MDC plans YEARS AFTER APPROVALS DIED.

Failing or perhaps in addition to transfer of responsibilities to MassDOT, it would seem reasonable of the City of Cambridge to assume the rights in the agreement associated with the 2000s destruction, assuming management of Magazine Beach.  

Cambridge should end the destruction which the DCR threatens in the attached plans, and end the secret outrages which would disqualify the DCR for management responsibilities on their own.  

These actions would be consistent with the constant claims of the City and City Council to environmental leadership.  Those claims of environmental leadership are placed in question by the behavior allowed to and shared with the DCR.

Sincerely, 

Robert J. La Trémouille, Individually, 

and as Chair, Friends of the White Geese