Governor Leval Patrick talks “Infrastructure.” Photos of destructive reality.

1. Lovely Words From Governor Patrick.
2. Destroyed Nesting Area, December 14, 2012.
3. Boston Globe: Yet more puffery, passing on Cambridge / DCR’s lies of Responsible Behavior.
4. Alewife, February 16, 2012, Acres of Destruction and Animal Killing.
5. Magazine Beach, destroying by green, August 15, 2012.
6. Summary.
7. Contacts.


1. Lovely Words From Governor Patrick.

Last night, January 16, 2013, Governor Patrick gave his State of the State Address.

He made a lot of noise about infrastructure and money to create it.

Reality is a very destructive use of money destroying infrastructure on one hand and laziness abetting a very destructive state agency in its destructiveness on the other.

His lovely words did mirror the lovely words aimed toward him at the Senator Warren ceremonial swearing in.

[01-10, Walgr; 20-01, 01-05, Warren]

Sorry this photo is so dark. The other five did not come out at all. I was carrying my analog camera.

Please also see my report of January 6, 2013, the day after, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/day-403-patrick-administration-rotten.html.

My preliminary report and photos, including before and after may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html, and at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html. The latter were taken on December 12, 2012.

2. Destroyed Nesting Area, December 14, 2012.

[01-10, Walgr; 01-20, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 02-19, 12-14, DNA]

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The lower structure in the background is Memorial Drive. Responsible people would be parking under it.  The BU Bridge workers parked there for a period of years during that project.  But flat out lies work in the City of Cambridge.

[01-10, Walgr; 04-17, 12-14, DNA]

The structure in the background is the BU Bridge.  

[01-10, Walgr; 05-16, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 06-15, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 07-14, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 09-12, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 10-11, 12-14, DNA]

[01-10, Walgr; 11-10, 12-14, DNA]

3. Boston Globe: Yet more puffery, passing on Cambridge / DCR’s lies of Responsible Behavior.

The basis of the following report was received while I was working on the current report:

THE DESTROYED NESTING AREA AND THE CHARLES RIVER WHITE GEESE ARE BY THE BOSTON GLOBE SHOWN AS A MODEL OF WHY CAMBRIDGE IS HOLIER THAN THOU.

http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/boston-globe-uses-outrageous-falsity-in.html.

4. Alewife, February 16, 2012, Acres of Destruction and Animal Killing.

Please see my report with photos at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/cambridge-pols-destroy-alewife-photo.html.

5. Magazine Beach, destroying by green, August 15, 2012.

Please see my report with photos at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/magazine-beach-using-vegetation-for.html.

6. Summary.

I had hoped for decency and honor from Governor Patrick. This was because he may have vetoed Obama moneys to destroy hundreds of excellent trees on Memorial Drive between Magazine Beach and the third bridge to the east, the Longfellow Bridge. In not at all surprising behavior, the application was based on key lies from the Department of Conservation and Recreation. They filed papers with Cambridge saying that all the trees were healthy. The public lies talked diseased trees.

The Boston Globe printed a report on it, quoting the lies from the DCR without question in the form of: How dare you disagree with these [flat out liars].

Patrick has been made aware of the latest laziness induced outrage at the Destroyed Nesting Area. His response was neutral, fitting the rottenness in Cambridge and from the DCR.

7. Contacts.

Governor Leval Patrick: 617-725-4005; http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

MBTA, manager of commuter rail: http://www.mbta.com/customer_support/feedback/.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation: http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation: http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.

Boston Globe uses outrageous falsity in Puffery about Cambridge

Thank you to Phil Barber for pointing out the following from the Boston Globe in December 2012:

The lies which Cambridge puts out about itself are multiplied by unknowing reporters repeating those lies.

It is silly to call the repeat of the lies by the Cambridge Machine “unknowing.”

Cambridge and the DCR are doing everything they can, in particular, to kill off the Charles River White Geese.

My current series of reports provides multiple photos about the latest outrage in this exact location.

It is the goal of Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation to kill off all resident animals on the Charles River.

Cambridge and the DCR have indulged in October - November 2011 in a massive destruction of acres of Alewife including a pogrom of hundreds of resident animals.

I have done a series of reports on the latest outrage. I will follow shortly with a detailed update with new photos and links to old photos

Days 407 and 408. Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese looks bad

We conducted visibilities on Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15, days 407 and 408, at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese on the Charles River at the intersection of the BU Bridge and its on ramp to Memorial Drive in Cambridge, MA, USA.

It looks bad.

Both days we were there in early rush hour, after, apparently, the railroad’s workers left.

On Monday, the gaggle was huddled against the BU Bridge at the bottom of the slope and near the Charles River. They moved closer to the tree they have lived their life under since the Department of Conservation and Recreation and Cambridge started deliberately starving them by walling off Magazine Beach. They did not go all the way. They huddled against the Charles River in an area that was densely vegetated until the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy” started destroying the environment for the DCR.

On Tuesday, they were in the second location when I came and moved up the artificially created undeveloped area by the BU Bridge when a couple of good people came, perhaps with needed food.

The ground which has been their main habitat since the start of starvation looks like a solid floor. It is hard to believe that the destruction which existed before could be made worse, but it has been made significantly worse, apparently unhabitable.

It is possible that these irresponsible people have finished their job and left to leave additional destruction to someone else.

The reality is that the BU Bridge workers, except for the plans from the DCR, functioned responsibly. The task was transferred to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation after most of the task was dictated by a really irresponsible agency. MassDOT did not implement the DCR’s goals of killing off all animals any more than was dictated by the DCR and Cambridge.

This latest phase from Commuter Rail with DCR blessing is inexcusable, downright rotten, behavior. This latest phase is consistent with the rotten situation in the City of Cambridge and with regard to Cambridge’s multiple irresponsible cohorts.

Days 405 and 406 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese: Corruption

1. Days 405 and 406 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
2. Types of destruction.
3. Corruption.

1. Days 405 and 406 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

On Saturday, January 12 and Sunday, January 13, I conducted visibilities at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

They were huddled almost in their favorite part of the world, under the big tree kitty corner from the entrance illegally built by Boston University at BU Bridge and the On Ramp to Memorial Drive.

This Saturday, there were no workers destroying their home. They rested between the formerly natural area which has irresponsibly been turned into a parking lot, to their north, and the Charles River to the south.

2. Types of destruction.

This outrage has clarified that there are two types of environmental destruction going on.

There is the deliberate type achieved by the falsely named Charles River “Conservancy.” Since they started destroy the environment for the Department of Conservation and Recreation, almost all ground vegetation has been destroyed between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse a block (2/10 mile?) to the east. In the nesting area, this has meant the deforestation of the ground under all trees, including the killing of vegetation used for nesting.

But the irresponsibility of the CRC has been accelerated by vehicles driving over larger, more organized areas including areas which have been coming back from destruction. Clearly, looking at these irresponsible workers, such rotten behavior has been a very major factor in destruction as well.

3. Corruption.

I had a pleasant conversation with a gentleman taking photographs.

He had very clear and very negative opinions about how Cambridge, MA, is run. He used the word “corruption.” I agreed with him but corrected him.

The City of Cambridge, I said, is too corrupt for the stereotypical municipal definition of corruption to apply. The situation is too corrupt to make payoffs have any sense.

The fake groups are white collar corruption. These subtly but very really controlled groups lie that they are independent and control well meaning people while stabbing them in the back.

The achieved destruction and massive animal killing at Alewife with the fake groups working to make the situation that much worse is one excellent example.

Locally the problem is the continued destruction on the Charles with its own fake group who lie about “concern” but

a. do not want to know about reality,

b. do not want to know about the ongoing and increasing heartless animal abuse and irresponsible environmental destruction

c. while fighting to make things worse

strikes very close to home as well.

If you are lying about which side you are on and fooling well meaning people to destroy the causes for which they stand, you are corrupt. In Cambridge, MA, USA, corruption is the norm.

Day 404, plus Environmental Destruction on the Cambridge Common

1. Day 404 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
2. Cambridge Chronicle notices Cambridge Common.


1. Day 404 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

On January 10, I conducted day 404 of our visibilities at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. I had good response including one gentleman who has been a regular.

The area turned into an irresponsible parking lot includes a very significant portion which is now a quagmire. We have had a freeze followed by a thaw.

The gaggle of the Charles River White Geese rested on the ground on the safe side of their favorite spot, now parking. When the workers left, the gaggle moved to the artificial emptiness next to the BU Bridge where they rested. Was the original spot a plea to decency from people with no ethics?

2. Cambridge Chronicle notices Cambridge Common.

The January 10, 2013 edition of the Cambridge Chronicle modestly front paged a report on the proposed destruction on the Cambridge Common.

I have submitted the following letter. I enclosed copies of the Environmental Notification Form and of the Kelley motion mentioned in the letter. Two typos corrected.

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RE: Cambridge Common Environmental Destruction: Cambridge words and reality.

You have reported on Cambridge’s latest foray into environmental destruction.

This time, it is on Cambridge Common and Flagstaff Park.

The report quotes a city representative as saying that 20 trees will be destroyed, “some of the [20] trees are diseased.”

Interestingly, as is very common with Cambridge environmental destruction, a different reality occurs when you look at the official documents.

The Environmental Impact Statement in the second paragraph on the fourth page says:

“To create this path and visual connection twenty-two trees will be removed.” The short version of “visual connection” is that the planners are disturbed that trees are blocking the view. NO MENTION OF DISEASED TREES AMONG THE 22 appears in the ENF. Contrary to this normal mentality among city planners, responsible people consider trees to be the view. Such a position by Cambridge “planners” is nothing less than outrageous, but is highly normal among these people.

The city council passed a motion on this matter submitted by Councilor Kelley on November 5, which stated: “The Cambridge Common renovation project plans to remove close to one hundred significantly sized trees.” Perhaps the looksee corrected a misunderstanding by the Cambridge City Council. However, the Cambridge City Manager has routinely kept secret as much environmental destruction as he can get away with.

The highway proposal through Flagstaff Park goes through an area with very significant trees. That highway project is mentioned in the ENF. This mention of the highway with no more could be the City Manager’s usual mention of destruction without mentioning the destruction. The City Manager thinks it is the duty of responsible people to cross examine the City Manager and to find what he has kept secret.

If Councilor Kelley was correct, those magnificent trees could explain the difference between the 22 HEALTHY TREES which are being destroyed for blocking the view and the 100 he mentioned.

In any case, contrary to the diseased nonsense and at absolute minimum, 22 healthy trees are being destroyed because they block the view.

This bizarre level of priorities fits Cambridge’s destruction of acres of Alewife and killing hundreds of animals for a “flood protection” project which will not protect against floods but which meaningfully could be done on nearby properties without any environmental destruction.

This bizarre level of priorities fits multiple outrages on the Charles River which are in the process of being made much worse.

Business as usual in the City of Cambridge.

Cambridge (MA) Chronicle assists mass animal killing, encourages more

I sent the following letter to the Cambridge Chronicle on December 22, 2012.

In general, they have been extremely good on publishing my letters.

To put it succinctly, the Chronicle devoted the first page of its second section to a photo report on The Machine's celebration of the environment at Alewife. The Machine has destroyed acres of Alewife along with mass animal killings of permanent residents. The Machine, through the usual distractions and telling people to look at everything except what counts is fighting for perhaps total destruction of Alewife.

The below letter addressed the Chronicle’s guilt and has not been published. It is possible that the editor may also have had problems with my accurate description of the corruption which is the norm in Cambridge government and the Cambridge Machine.

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RE: Chronicle Puffery assists Alewife Destruction

I see the Chronicle has devoted yet another first page of the second section to the falsely named Friends of Alewife lying about which side they are on.

The last time I remember this Cambridge Machine front being in the Chronicle, it was bragging in a letter about its friends destroying acres of the irreplaceable Alewife reservation and killing off its animals.

Never before that destruction did this falsely named group publicly mention its fight for destruction at Alewife. The group lives by the constant REAL slogan of the Cambridge Machine: “Don’t look at what we are destroying; look at how great we sound when we yell at the other guy.”

The Cambridge Machine / “Friends” of Alewife has had another victory in its fight for possibly total destruction of the irreplaceable Alewife reservation.

The Alewife area needs flood storage. The lie put out when they quietly fought for the first outright destruction was that they were providing flood storage. The “flood storage” provided by that destruction would protect against the worst possible rain storm in a two year period. Alewife has seen two fifty year storms in the last twenty years. Alewife should have protection against hundred year storms.

There has been readily available protection for the area without the destruction this fake group fights for. It could have gone under the massive parking lot across CambridgePark Drive which stretches to Alewife Brook Parkway.

This fake group has kept people looking at everything else while a major condo project has started construction where the most obvious flood storage should go.

There is still a site adjacent to the existing destruction which is slated for a condo project. The balance of the massive parking lot across CambridgePark Drive is still available.

If meaningful flood protection is not provided on these sites, the fake group will have achieved possibly total destruction of the Alewife reservation. Their stalling and misdirection would leave no other target for the flood protection.

I have previously offered the Chronicle photographs of the destruction this fake group has bragged about at Alewife, and of the parking lot where a lot of the flood storage should have gone.

I am still happy to provide those photographs. Reality at Alewife would be very nice on the first page of your second section.

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Ed: The mentioned photographs may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/cambridge-pols-destroy-alewife-photo.html.

Day 403, Patrick Administration: rotten at the Charles River, self praise at Warren Swear In

1. Day 403 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.
2. Commuter Rail Gets Really Rotten.
3. Governor Deval Patrick praised.
4. Irresponsible Cambridge (MA) City Councilor present at Senator Warren celebration.


1. Day 403 at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

I kept track of our visibilities at the Destroyed Nesting Area, reporting each by its number, and the real number (because of groupings of reports) is higher. It has been 17 months since I last reported a numbered visibility. I got sloppy and just stopped counting.

The corruption evident in the current attacks of Commuter Rail on the Charles River White Geese yesterday afternoon in the late afternoon, normal rush hour except it was a Saturday, was such that I got out my leaflets and leafleted. No sign, just leaflets. This will be the first visibility reported without a “Save the Geese” sign.

People were nice and concerned.

I use the word corruption accurately.

Government corruption is a matter of exceeding one’s authorized power for personal benefit or for the benefit of friends.

The situation described below exactly fits government corruption.

2. Commuter Rail Gets Really Rotten.

On Saturday, the same bureaucrat was posted just inside the entrance to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. He lied to people that the Destroyed Nesting Area is a work zone, hard hat only.

[2012/12-12, Walgreen’s; 08-18, DNA]

Here is a photo of the work zone, which is the railroad tracks.

The destroyed nesting area illegally turned into a parking lot is to the right of the trees which are to the right of the railroad track / construction area.

[2012/12-12, Walgreen’s; 20-06, DNA]

Here is a photo of the corrupt behavior he is trying to keep as secret as possible and abusing his office in order to hide the corruption.

This is a photo of that portion of the Nesting Area which was held sacred in the BU Bridge repairs.

The railroad tracks are to the right of the trees to the right which are the same trees shown in the previous photo.

[2012/07-22, Walgreen’s, reverse order; 02 24 07-22, DNA Terrace]

Here is a photo of where the bureaucrat defending corruption in public was standing, in the opening to the right of the fence.

The brick structure is Memorial Drive. Under that structure is where responsible people parked for the BU Bridge project, and under Memorial Drive to the left.

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Here is a photo of where responsible people would be parking private vehicles from the far end of the responsible parking area. Vehicles from workers on the BU Bridge project, to the right were required to park under Memorial Drive, the brick structure to the left. The entrance to the nesting area where the guardian of corruption was stationed is straight ahead and slightly to the right of the car in the middle which is preparing to go up the on ramp.

The guardian of corruption in public, as usual, prohibited photos of the publicly corrupt behavior. He then took a whole bunch of photos of me. His photos did not bother me. I am not trying to hide corruption. I am publicizing it.

3. Governor Deval Patrick praised.

I had just come from the second swearing in ceremony for newly elected Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Prominent in the meeting was Governor Deval Patrick. Also prominent in the meeting was praise for Governor Deval Patrick’s performance in office.

The celebration occurred at Roxbury Community College, perhaps three miles from this continuing outrage.

Governor Patrick’s office has received copies of prior reports on this continuing outrage. The responses were noncommital.

4. Irresponsible Cambridge (MA) City Councilor present at Senator Warren celebration.

I came within a foot of one of the rotten members of the Cambridge City Council at the Senator Warren swearing in. I do not associate with such people.

She is belligerent in her support for heartless animal abuse on the Charles River.

She is one member of a unanimous Cambridge City Council which has never voted for or taken a vote on whether the Cambridge City Manager should be fired for destroying the life of Melvina Monteiro. Jury, trial judge and appeals courts panel were quite united in public communication of their disgust at the Cambridge City Manager’s malfeasance in office.

This black Cape Verdean woman was fired because she filed one of several civil rights complaints complaining that she and other female employees of the City of Cambridge were discriminated against because they are women.

These strong judicial condemnations would easily support the firing of the Cambridge City Manager. The judicial condemnations were simply ignored. Ignoring reality is very much normal in the City of Cambridge. The pols then proceed to declare themselves holier than thou in spite of reality.

I think Senator Warren and others on the stage made very strong comments in favor of women’s rights.

Interesting.

Governmental Destructiveness persists at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese

In the BU Bridge project, the bureaucrats went through the form of responsibility.

They destroyed about half the Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, bounded by the BU Bridge, the Charles River, the Grand Junction Railroad, and a Memorial Drive on ramp, when they only needed to destroy about a third.

Now they are destroying the rest and, through corrupt behavior, are trying to keep the destruction as secret as possible.

Since the beginning of December, Commuter Rail has been working on the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge under the BU Bridge.

If they, and Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation were responsible entities, private vehicles would be parked under the Memorial Drive overpass. That is where the cars of the BU Bridge workers were parked.

But no, they have been parking their private vehicles in the environmentally sensitive area that had been the last undestroyed part of the formerly mile long habitat of the Charles River White Geese. This environmentally sensitive area was protected during the BU Bridge repairs. But these poor dear construction workers are apparently abused by walking to work a shorter distance than did the BU Bridge workers. So they are destroying the tiny home of the Charles River White Geese.

And last Friday, the bureaucrats started ordering their environmentally corrupt destruction be kept secret, photos prohibited.

This fits the goals of Cambridge and the DCR. The DCR’s policies are to kill off all animals in the Charles River Basin. That is in their secret definition of “park.”

This fits the destruction at Alewife. In October and November 2011, Cambridge and the DCR conducted a pogrom of animals over acres of the Alewife reservation as part of their destruction of that irreplaceable treasure. They lied that they were providing meaningful flood protection and lied that the destruction was necessary. Now they seem to be on the way to apparently total destruction.

The bureaucrat who ordered “no photos” had an additional threat. They are going to “repair” the damage. What is the DCR and Cambridge’s idea of repair? As much as they can get away with toward killing off all animals.

The “repair” for the BU Bridge project was bushes. What does the DCR do with bushes, with the approval of Cambridge? Look no further than the walling off of Magazine Beach from the Charles River with massive bushes. These bushes have been allowed to grow and overwhelm things. They have starved the 30 year resident Charles River White Geese by keeping them away from their food of most of the last 30 years at Magazine Beach.

For photos of the current destruction, before and during, please see http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html and at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/nesting-are-of-charles-river-white.html.

Note that the outrageous personal parking is fully and clearly separated from the construction zone at the railroad tracks and is only a few hundred feet from the readily available parking area under Memorial Drive.

For photos of the outrage of the reality of the introduced bushes, please see http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/magazine-beach-using-vegetation-for.html.

But they do love to claim environmental sainthood.

The Environmental Destroyers’ idea of “Improvement” on the Charles River in Cambridge, MA, USA

I reported yesterday on Commuter Rail’s throwing me out of the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese because I had the nerve to photograph their vehicles parked in this environmentally sensitive area. Workers on the BU Bridge repairs were required to park under Memorial Drive in a location a few hundred feet from this latest outrage but the environmental destroyers find responsible behavior offensive. That report may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/commuter-rail-ups-ante-on-its.html.

My attacker threatened to “Improve” the area they are destroying after they leave.

Photos of the environmental destroyers’ idea of “improvement may be viewed at: http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/magazine-beach-using-vegetation-for.html.

Really rotten people.

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Email addresses for contacts are:

Governor Patrick:

http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (controls Commuter Rail):

http://www.mbta.com/customer_support/feedback/.

Massachusetts Department of Transportation:

http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/contactus.aspx.

The City of Cambridge and the Department of Conservation and Recreation are beneath contempt.

Commuter Rail Ups the Ante on its Environmental Destruction at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA

Commuter Rail Ups the Ante on its Environmental Destruction at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, Charles River, Cambridge, MA, USA.

I have just had a person with an MBTA marking on his chest prohibit me from photographing the private vehicles parked in the last refuge of the Charles River White Geese where they have been irresponsibly parking private vehicles for the last four weeks.

He ordered me out of this public park and its irresponsible parking lot.

The poor dear could not understand why his big burly workers should be required to park under Memorial Drive as so many workers were required to do during the BU Bridge work.

He threatened to impose efforts to supposedly correct the destruction, very clearly by extending the DCR’s outrageous bushes which have been planted in half the area already. A rapid sample of this kind of “improvement” may be seen in the wall of bushes blocking access between the Charles River and the Magazine Beach playing fields. This bizarre wall has been starving the Charles River White Geese by keeping their food from them.

The reprehensible state bureaucrats are ramping up their goal of killing of all animals on the Charles River Basin. Based on their secret definition of parks, free animals need not apply and anything and everything they can get away with will be inflicted.

Prior reports with photos include reports at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html and at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/nesting-are-of-charles-river-white.html. Note that the outrageous personal parking is fully and clearly separated from the construction zone and only a few hundred feet from readily available parking area under Memorial Drive.

The Cambridge Machine Questions Credibility

A few weeks ago, I reported on an exchange between two individuals concerning development in Cambridge, MA, USA.

One was a Machine type crying “too much development”. The other was a developer type blasting the Machine type for being unrealistic.

My evaluation was that the two were on the same side and that the developer type was helping the Machine type pull the usual con game on well meaning people by giving The Machine undeserved credibility.

We have had another such con game. This time the Machine type (different person) questioned the developer type’s (I do not have the slightest idea if this one was the same or another; they all sound the same. They all read from the same script.) credibility.

My response with some clean up:

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[Name omitted to protect the guilty] is correct.

There is a severe problem with credibility on development and environmental issues.

It starts with [Name omitted to protect the guilty].

A little over a year ago, I communicated the very real problems facing Alewife and for a long time, I have communicated the very real problems on the Charles River.

At Alewife, in a meeting of this group, when action was needed immediately, [Name omitted to protect the guilty] said nobody was destroying anything and he/she claimed he/she knows what he/she is talking about.

Since then, Cambridge and the DCR have destroyed acres of Alewife and conducted a massive pogrom of its animal residents. More destruction is imminent because the project will not provide the flood protection claimed. So it is a matter of building underground in a location where underground is disappearing or destroying the rest of Alewife. The Machine has a position, stall and blame the other guy.

The same thing is going on on the Charles. The problem on the Charles is 13 years of environmental destruction and heartless animal abuse by, once again, Cambridge and the DCR. The Machine claims to be concerned about the Charles River but denies the last 13 years exist. So The Machine says to help with an historical building but ignore plans to destroy its parking lot until it is too late to prevent that destruction. Ignore the poisons being dumped on Magazine Beach. Ignore the bizarre wall blocking off Magazine Beach from the Charles and starving the 30 plus year resident Charles River White Geese. Ignore the replacement of healthy grass with sickly stuff that needs the poisons. Ignore the ease to seed responsible grass instead of seeding poisons. Ignore the ease of chopping down that bizarre wall.

Ignore the destruction of playing fields to drain off poisons which should not even be there.

Ignore the use of the tiny area the Charles River White Geese have been confined to as a parking lot for Commuter Rail workers. Ignore the bizarre massive thicket of bushes being seeded there.

Ignore reality. Listen to The Machine.

Latest Outrage continues at Destroyed Nesting Area, Cambridge Machine Speaks

1. Report.
2. The Cambridge Machine speaks.
3. Prior Posts.
a. Before Photos.
b. After Photos.
4. Contacts.

1. Report.

Yesterday, December 21, 2012, was a very rainy day.

In spite of this, there were six vehicles parked on top of the environmentally sensitive core area of the Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese. An area which was filled with ground vegetation until the Charles River “Conservancy” started destroying the environment for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

One looked like a construction vehicle. The rest should have been parked at the top of the hill under Memorial Drive. But Massachusetts has a destructive government, lying about which side it is on.

The Charles River White Geese were huddled against the BU Bridge as far as they could get from this inexcusable attack.

More crushed stone has been dumped on top of the area which had been showing green.

One good sign: more destruction of the DCR’s introduced vegetation. The DCR likes gardeners. The DCR is aggressively working to kill off all animals on the Charles River Basis by whatever means it can find an excuse for. This is one such outrage.

But a little has backfired. The irresponsible workers, in addition to piling on more crushed rock, are wearing down the rock and wearing down some introduced vegetation which is intended to create another massive outrage like the wall blocking off the Charles River from Magazine Beach.

2. The Cambridge Machine speaks.

The poor dears from the Cambridge Machine are looking for money for their historical project.

They lie of their “concern” for the Charles River and the Magazine Beach area.

They do not want to know about the ongoing outrage at the Destroyed Nesting Area.

The last 13 years with its repeated and inexcusable destruction does not exist in their world.

They want suggestions as to how to “improve” the area as long as the improvements do not undo 13 years of environmental destruction and heartless animal abuse.

The claims of concern are silly to describe as other than flat out lies.

While yelling about their historical building, they keep equally silent about their plans to destroy its parking lot.

After all, they will not destroy the parking lot until they get the money. So don’t worry, until they get the money and then they will destroy without further notice, like the ongoing outrage at the Destroyed Nesting Area and the 13 years of outrages they do not include in their history.

3. Prior Posts.

a. Before Photos.

http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/bureaucrats-allow-railroad-to-raise.html.

b. After Photos.

http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/nesting-are-of-charles-river-white.html.

4. Contacts.

The Massachusetts Governor may be contacted at his on line form at http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.]

MassDOT may be contacted at their on line form at http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.

Harvard expansion destabilizing the Allston Brighton section of Boston?

1. Background.
2. Allston Brighton Community Corporation concerns.

1. Background.

Boston has two neighborhoods bordering on the Charles River which are far less exclusive than the much more renown Back Back and Beacon Hill neighborhoods. The Allston neighborhood is directly across the Charles River and slightly west of Magazine Beach. The Brighton neighborhood is adjacent to and west of Allston.

As far as connections to the Charles River go, they are pretty much indistinguishable. The borderline is Everett Street. Everett Street is the eastern boundary of the destroyed shopping center I reported on yesterday in my report on Harvard expansion, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/harvards-empire-in-allston-across.html.

The reality is that the distinction between the Allston and Brighton neighborhoods on the Charles River is more historical than realistic. The construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike / Interstate 90 has created a very real separation of the Charles River portion of the neighborhoods from the larger, more landlocked areas. There really are now three neighborhoods.

The Allston Brighton Community Corporation has been in existence for quite a bit of time now. It has organized around open space and housing.

The Allston Brighton Community Corporation has distributed an email letter of concern on housing impacts. This report of problems looks to me like possibly recognizing the impact of Harvard’s empire building.

The report does not distinguish exactly where in the neighborhoods they are talking about. The primary part of Allston is a very major and very dense student enclave based on Boston University. The primary part of Brighton shares with Brookline a rather significant student enclave based on Boston College, with its own dense areas. The Charles River portion has been sleepy with a significant but not overwhelming student presence. A very significant portion of Brighton north of the Boston College enclave has the appearance of residential rather than student housing. Its use is like the Charles River portion but much nicer.

I lived in the Charles River section during my first semester at Boston University School of Law and commuted to BU Law on bike using Memorial Drive and the BU Bridge. I performed in a movie shoot in November 2012 about two blocks from my former home. These locations are less than a mile from Harvard Square and are directly impacted by Harvard’s empire building.

My personal opinion is that I would much rather see housing expansion instead of Harvard expansion in the area targeted by Harvard for Harvard expansion. There is another, major area I consider much more appropriate for Harvard expansion.

2. Allston Brighton Community Corporation concerns.

The Allston Brighton Community Corporation report starts:

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Without swift action, we are at risk of losing our community.

The Allston Brighton real estate market favors cash-ready absentee investors over community-based owners.

In 2012, approximately 75% of all residential home sales in Allston Brighton were to absentee investors, not to people who will put down roots in our community. Half of all sales were 100% cash deals, transacted quickly and without warning.

Now that we’ve unearthed this data, the Allston Brighton CDC is devising solutions to increase neighborhood stability and we need your help to enact them.

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Details may be obtained at:

Allston Brighton CDC
20 Linden Street, Suite 288
Allston, MA 02134

T. 617-787-3874
F. 617-787-0425

info@AllstonBrightonCDC.org
www.AllstonBrightonCDC.org

Harvard’s empire in Allston, across the Charles River from Cambridge, takes another step with filing of zoning plans

1. Introduction.
2. Harvard Gazette. Details from press release.
3. Harvard Magazine. Extended background analysis.


1. Introduction.

Harvard University has filed zoning plans for the Charlesgate Housing site at North Harvard and Western in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, a couple of blocks or so from the Charles River and Harvard Square.

Charlesgate Housing is a 40 year old subsidized housing project which is being subjected to a forced move by Harvard University.

Harvard bought the rather good neighborhood shopping center two blocks from the project and turned almost all of it into a ghost town by failing to rent stores as the tenants vacated. To no great surprise, the owners of Charlesgate “voluntarily” agreed to sell and to move the housing to the site of 7 to 10 former stores. These stores formerly included a K mart, an OfficeMax, a package store, and other such facilities. They were the equivalent of an entire strip mall in the far, western end of the shopping center. These stores were emptied by Harvard.

A Shaw’s Market in the southern portion of the shopping center remains in a smaller building. It has been downsized into a Shaw’s related Star Market facility. A MacDonald’s on the northern / Western Avenue end has been rebuilt to fit into the new configuration. One other building containing, I believe, a pet store, on the nearest, northeast corner, also remains.

Construction in this part of Allston is of major importance to those concerned about the Charles River because the distance varies from a short one block distance to a distance equal to about two blocks.

The environmental problems and attacks on the Charles River White Geese seem to be directly related to plans for relocating Harvard Medical School to the Allston project area, to the Allston off ramps of the Massachusetts Turnpike and the Beacon Railroad Yards.

These facilities were purchased by Harvard months after a transit study determined that an off ramp to Cambridge could be built from the Massachusetts Turnpike over the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge which in turn leads to key areas next to the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese.

The future Harvard Medical School and related facilities is visible from the Magazine Beach playing fields. It is the eastern end of the possible Allston projects. It is about equal in size to Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.

2. Harvard Gazette. Details from press release.

The Harvard Gazette, an official organ of the University reported on December 19, 2012, that Harvard’s agent had formally filed its plans with the Boston Redevelopment Agency, Boston’s equivalent of a zoning board.

This report, in turn, linked a press release dated December 17, 2012. This is Harvard’s version of the situation: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/12/barrys-corner-plan-filed/

The press release includes the following key paragraph:

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The Project consists of the construction of two buildings with residential uses on the upper floors, residential, amenity and retail uses on the ground floor, and parking in the basement. The north building ranges from seven to nine stories in height and is located along a newly created road within the project site. The south building is six stories tall and has frontage on Western Avenue, North Harvard Street, and a second new road within the project site and bordering Smith Field.

3. Harvard Magazine. Extended background analysis.

Harvard Magazine’s report, another house organ, posted about a week ago, has quite a bit of detail, plus a good map at http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/economic-realities-in-allston. This is their January - February 2013 issue.

The lead paragraph gives an apparently good description based on a document filed in October 2012:

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Harvard’s October filing of a new Institutional Master Plan Notification Form (IMPNF), describing projects it hopes to build in Allston during the next decade, marked the formal withdrawal of the grandiose plans for a new campus described in a similar submission in January 2007. Gone are the reconfigured bridges over the Charles River, the new undergraduate Houses, the 10 million square feet of building space, and the performing-arts pavilion at Barry’s Corner. In the vicinity of the latter, a parking lot is now contemplated for the construction vehicles used to build the mix of housing, retail, and athletic facilities that administrators are proposing for the land Harvard began quietly acquiring in 1988, 25 years ago. Later, a mixed-use institutional building is slated to rise on the southernmost portion of the Charlesview apartments site. (Harvard planners, comparing the new IMPNF to the former one in meetings with the Allston community during the past 18 months, have characterized its proposals as practical, noting their greatly reduced scope, geography, and time frame—a decade, rather than the 50-year vision detailed in 2007.)

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[The report continues through a number of paragraphs.]

Environmental Con Game Accelerates in Cambridge, MA, USA

About a month ago I wrote a letter to the editor replying to Councilor vanBeuzekom’s nonsense at Alewife. She was defending the air and did not want to know about the acres of virgin woodland she and her friends are destroying. And she does not want to know about her plans to accelerate the destruction at Alewife to perhaps total destruction. And she does not want to know there is a readily available, responsible alternative. She does not want to know about the con game her friends are working to make the destruction that much more likely.

The letter was printed on this blog and in the Cambridge Chronicle.

The con game is accelerating.

I just received one email from the supposed group in front of which the councilor spoke. The email wildly claimed to be defending the environment.

Right after that email, I received an email from “another” group claiming the first group’s statistics are all wrong.

So what.

They are both on the same side.

The reply to the initial con game gives credibility to a group which has no right to credibility. Is the “reply” from an independent group or just another arm of The Machine helping a fake group from The Machine fool people?

This is how environmental destroyers keep up the destruction in Cambridge, MA, USA. They keep on piously claiming to be on a side strikingly different from the side they are on, and they have a massive organization spouting the lie to as many people they can get to.

And massive animal abuse and killing, and massive environmental destruction. All things that they very belligerently do not want to know about, but they love to lie that they are responsible people and environmentalists.

Latest Outrage Continues at Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese

Cambridge, MA, USA, formerly wild property managed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the north side of the Charles River. Managed so as to maximize heartless animal abuse while lying about being environmental saints.

Today, the Charles River White Geese remained huddled in the man made wasteland against the BU Bridge. They were kept from the tiny part of their world not really destroyed the them yet. The attackers were worker’s cars parked on top of their humble home. The workers are too lazy to park at the top of a not particular large hill under the adjacent Memorial Drive over pass.

There are not as many irresponsible workers' vehicles destroying this sensitive environmental area, but still too many.

The crushed stone which was dumped on top of the area which had been returning to nature has expanded and has been ground in by strikingly irresponsible people doing the dirty work for really rotten governments. Portions of the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s access highway have been deviated from to disrupt the DCR’s introduced vegetation. The crushed stone dumped on top of the DCR’s crushed stone creating that highway has been crushed in on top of what was too much before the Commuter Rail people started their totally inexcusable destruction.

Nesting area of Charles River White Geese Turned into a Parking Lot

All of these were taken on December 4, 2012, on Analog film which was returned on December 9.

The comments I have previously made are very good. Links are at the end. I will try to add a little analysis. Basically, my prior comments work very well. There is no need to overdue the analysis.

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This photo is taken from the area next to the Charles a little west of the BU Bridge. It was untouched during the BU Bridge repairs although, like the rest of the area between the BU Bridge and the BU Boathouse perhaps half a mile to the east, has had major destruction of ground vegetation by the Charles River Conservancy. The view is up through the undeveloped swath next to the BU Bridge where the Commuter Rail outrage has forced the scared Charles River White Geese.

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To the right is the support for the Grand Junction Bridge. The vehicle is standing on the tracks. The area nearest the camera is the key part of the habitat.

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The area nearest the camera is the far portion of the area in the photo shown a number of times in the prior reports. That photo showed nature healing itself as many spots of green. The gray nearest the camera is massive amounts of dumped crushed stone. The area away from the camera is the eastern highway created by the DCR’s destructive ‘improvements’. Major dumping of stone on that highway is shown in later photos.

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The yellow vehicle is for work on the bridge. It almost certainly runs on rails and, along with the red vehicle at the far end of the bridge, was brought in from the Beacon Yards, straight ahead and to the right. These are the vehicles needed for the work. Almost all of the wheeled vehicles, with responsible entities, would have been left under Memorial Drive.

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This is the opposite view from the first shot, taken up the emptied area next to the BU Bridge. The Charles River White Geese are huddled as near as they dare next to vegetation which has not been destroyed. The geese to their left would be the ones seen up close in the first shot.

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At this point, the gaggle got up the nerve to move further from the river. The corner in the plastic wall is the separation between the area (nearest) which needed to be cleared for work on the BU Bridge and the area (further away) which was simply destructive. But note in the other pictures the crushed stone dumped on top of crushed stone on the new highway created in this eastern, totally unnecessary, leg.

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Emergency at the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese, assistance needed

The Charles River White Geese have lived on the Charles River for 32 years. They have created a community which is loved by decent human beings.

In recent years, they have been heartlessly abused by Cambridge, MA, and by its friends in state government.

The explanation for the abuse offered by the front organization representing the interests of Cambridge, MA in the community is that the last 13 years do not exist. But the front organization, The Cambridge Machine, runs around lying that it is concerned about the Charles River and its environment.

For most of the last 32 years, they have lived in a one mile long habitat on the Charles River centered on the BU Bridge in Cambridge, MA, USA. They fed at and lived at the Magazine Beach playing fields. Once a year during nesting and also during extreme weather conditions, they lived in their nesting area bounded by the BU Bridge, by an on ramp to Memorial Drive and by the Grand Junction Railroad.

For several years now, Cambridge and its friends in the state have been deliberately starving them by walling off their food at Magazine Beach and by dumping poisons on that food. The worst accomplice at the state level, the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) has created a secret goal for the Charles River Basin hidden in their definition of Parkland. The goal is to kill off all animals on the Charles River basin, and they implement this goal by dirty tricks sneaked into otherwise innocuous projects.

Half the tiny area to which the Charles River White Geese have been confined was destroyed in repairs to the BU Bridge. This is the almost all of the western portion of the area running along the BU Bridge. About half of that destruction was totally unnecessary. The destroyed area has been filled in with introduced bushes which look likely to recreate the bizarre wall which is walling off Magazine Beach.

The Charles River White Geese, until this week, were confined in the eastern half of their Nesting Area.

During the period commencing with the appointment of the Charles River “Conservancy” to destroy the environment for the DCR, almost all ground vegetation running about half a mile east from the BU Bridge has been destroyed.

We had blamed the CRC for this destruction but the outrage which initiated this last week indicates that significant parts of the destruction has also been done by irresponsible maintenance workers with DCR consent, outright or tacit.

This photo from the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese demonstrates the rottenness of the people with whom we are dealing.

2012 / 06-08 / 19 05-13-12, DNA dirt regrowing, natives, highway, geese.

The green spots are nature reclaiming land destroyed by human destroyers. This week, this area has had large amounts of crushed stone dumped on it. All the now brown areas were previously native and healthy until the destroyers went to work on them. Pretty much all of the brown areas have been used since the weekend for parking or access to parking. My prior report showed where responsible people would park.

The Charles River White Geese need your help.

Contacting the DCR or Cambridge is a waste of time. These people are beneath consideration.

The governor and the Department of Transportation are other matters.

The governor may have stepped in to keep the DCR from getting Obama moneys for the destruction of more than 100 healthy, excellent trees near the Charles River in the area between here and the second bridge to the east. The DCR lied that all the trees were diseased. The lie was proven in the DCR’s submittal to Cambridge which the governor received.

The Department of Transportation has been a breath of fresh air after dealing with Cambridge, the DCR, and the Cambridge Machine. The commuter rail workers committing this outrage are under the aegis of the Department of Transportation.

Contacts are:

Governor Patrick, 617-725-4005; http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/, and

The Department of Transportation, http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.

Additionally, assistance to the Friends of the White Geese is very much crucial.

We need money to help with our efforts, and we need workers. We may be contacted by email at charlesriverwhitegeese@yahoo.com. We take paypal which in turn takes any major credit card. We have a link at the top of our Blog at charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com.

Checks and other snail mail communications may be mailed to Friends of the White Geese c/o Robert J. La Trémouille, PO Box 391412, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Friends of the White Geese is a non profit organization registered with the Attorney General of Massachusetts. Contributions are NOT TAX EXEMPT because of our necessary political activities.

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Bureaucrats turn last refuge of Charles River White Geese into a parking lot.

My thanks to Nick Lopen who sent us an email that he had seen vehicles in the Destroyed Nesting Area of the Charles River White Geese and he did not see any of the geese.

I was at this cherished area at about 11 am on December 3, 2012.

The Department of Conservation and Recreation is allowing commuter rail people to use the last refuge of the Charles River White Geese as a parking lot for work on the railroad.

Here are some photos of the area before the latest destruction.

I will follow with the actual photos in a few days.

Actually, this outrage could explain how this delicate area has been destroyed and destroyed and destroyed and not allowed to grow back.

One excellent example of the outrage is an area where gravel / crushed stone was casually dumped.

2012 / 06-08 / 19 05-13-12, DNA dirt regrowing, natives, highway, geese.

This is a prior photo. See the green spots. Nature is starting to regain itself. So an irresponsible government just casually destroys.

Further away from the camera is significant parking.

2012 / 07-06 / 14 06-24 DNA E intro, native, dirt

The Charles River White Geese were huddled in fear in the artificially created wasteland next to the BU Bridge.

This area has turned into the only part of their 30 year nesting area the Charles River White Geese dare to use.

This is the northern end of the area to which they are confined. They were in this area when I left. When I got there, they were closer to the river. There is a narrow band of introduced bushes between this area and the few undestroyed native bushes and then the area that has been destroyed since the Charles River “Conservancy” started environmental destruction for the DCR. Vehicles are parked in the open area just beyond the native bushes.

2012 / 06-15, DVD 06-26-12 / 09 05-29-12 DNA dirt, geese, E natives, E introd

This is a pretty good view of the area where they were when I first saw them this afternoon. This area is about halfway down the BU Bridge side of the Destroyed Nesting Area. The gray blocks to the right are probably part of the BU Bridge’s eastern extreme.

2012 / 06-08 / 07 05-13-12 DNA Terrace, east, grass and thicket.

This is a good view of the area from near the northern end of the BU Bridge. The bushes on the wood chips are part of a group of bushes creating a terrace at the entrance which was illegally created by Boston University where the BU Bridge meets the on ramp to Memorial Drive. The large tree to the right, showing in this and prior photos, is on the Charles River. There was significant tree destruction in the area which is now undeveloped and holding the frightened, abused Charles River White Geese. The area to the left rear held parking on December 3.

2012 / 07-06 / 26 06-27 dirt, geese, natives, W intro, terrace W highway and parking lot.

There were approximately 12 vehicles parked in the area which was not touched by the outrageous aspects of the BU Bridge repairs. Gravel had been dumped on top of the western of the of two new highways started to “repair” the inexcusable destruction in the BU Bridge repairs. Gravel had been dumped in a wide part of the area which had been previously destroyed after the Charles River “Conservancy” started destroying the environment for the Department of Conservation and Recreation in 2003.

Vehicles were parked everywhere there could be rudimentary, growing vegetation, destroying any chance of it growing now.

The near end of this photo is the western end of the new west highway. It was occupied by parking today.

2012 / 07-07 to 15, 07-26 DVD / 017_16

This is the eastern end of that new eastern highway. The crushed stone on the left has gone from nearly innocuous to very truly intrusive. The area to the right is the hillside under the on ramp to Memorial Drive.

2012 / 06-15, DVD 06-26-12 / 21 06-03-12 DNA E Hwy, Gaggle on Dirt, w native, intro to L, E to R

This the opposite view of that new eastern highway. The dirt on the other side of the undestroyed native bushes now sees significant amounts of crushed stone / gravel. The new highway is now much more significant.

2012 / 03-07 to 15, 07-26 DVD / 016_14A

Gravel had been dumped in a wide part of the area which had been previously destroyed after the Charles River “Conservancy” started destroying the environment for the Department of Conservation and Recreation in 2003.

A very significant area nearest the camera is now heavily crushed stone / gravel. The geese have been driven from their favorite spot under this large tree.

2012 / 06-08 / 13 05-13-12 BU Bridge view, both natives, thicket.

This is a view from the BU Bridge. The black line snaking from middle to left and back to middle is a plastic wall built between the area which was destroyed in the BU Bridge repairs and the area which is now being further destroyed by the Commuter Rail people working with the DCR. The two thick green areas to the right of the black wall are remnants of native vegetation which was everywhere before the BU Bridge destruction and the destruction which started when the Charles River Conservancy started destroying the environment for the DCR. This photo was taken in May 2012 and the native bushes were significantly smaller than in other photos.

The figures in the middle of the brown would be Charles River White Geese and other free animals, probably a lot of Canadas.

The eastern highway is a bare sliver going from left to middle about a third of the way from the top of the photo, and ending at the upper of the two native groupings. Immediately to the right of the upper grouping is now gravel / crushed stone. Vehicles are now parked all over this area. The very top of this photo is the hillside under the on ramp to Memorial Drive. The sharp demarcation between brown and green is the demarcation between the introduced, soon to be massive, bushes and the native bushes which fill that hillside.

This photo is very soon after the planting of the introduced bushes.

This is the core, most cherished part of the last undestroyed home of the Charles River White Geese. There are a lot of vehicles parked her.

2012 / 06-08 / 19 05-13-12, DNA dirt regrowing, natives, highway, geese

This is an excellent view of the area where most of the gravel / crushed stone has been dumped. The smidgens of green are no longer there. It is all crushed stone. The vegetation to the right is the farther of the undestroyed native vegetation in the preceding photo.

Some white geese can be seen in the rear left. This area included quite a few vehicles on December 3.

2012 / 07-06 / 26 06-27 dirt, geese, natives, W intro, terrace W highway and parking lot.

Vehicles were parked everywhere there could be rudimentary, growing vegetation, destroying any chance of it growing now.

The near end of this photo is the western end of the new west highway. It was occupied by parking today.

This is the opposite view of the photo above of the northern end of the artificial wasteland in which the frightened geese are huddling.]

2011 / 09-13 / 18 09-04-11 DNA

MBCR signs were on a number of the vehicles. The main action was on the Grand Junction Railroad. MBCR is the managing agent for the Department of Transportation to run the Commuter Rail.

They were clearly working on the Grand Junction Railroad Bridge, and they were doing it in a manner as destructive as could be for resident animals.

This is the standard routine for work on DCR property. DCR goal is to kill off all animals living on the Charles River Basin. Their euphemism is parkland.

So whatever work is done is warped to destroy life as much as possible.

This is a photo from last year. This entire area was used for parking. You can see the geese huddled under the trees.

2011 / 04-04B Clark / 06 03-29 DNA east of Grand Junction.

Also from last year, notice all the geese under the trees. But also notice the green vegetation just sprouting in April.

Used for parking.

2011 / 04-04B Clark / 17 03-29 Grand Junction, geese, Charles, BU Bridge

This is the current construction zone, April 2011 photo. They are working on the Grand Junction Bridge, straight ahead. There is no need whatsoever to park on and destroy the hillside. The area in the immediately prior photo is bottom right.

Please yell at the governor and the secretary of transportation. The staging area for this work, if the DCR were a responsible entity, would be either:

a. Under the Memorial Drive over pass where there is plenty of room, or

2011 / 03-16 Clark / 01 02-13-11 Rotary from west.

In the photo, the area to the left has been used for parking during the responsible parts of the BU Bridge work. It is under Memorial Drive in a location where grass simply will not work.

The nesting area is straight ahead. The car viewed to the left of the snow on the island is preparing to go up the on ramp which is the northern neighbor of the destroyed nesting area.

2010 / 02-01 Clark / 14, 01-05-10, DNA Kathy and Son

This is a photo from February 2010 taken in the area to which the Charles River White Geese have been forced yet again. Straight ahead is the Memorial Drive overpass. Those cars could readily park under that overpass.

b. north on the railroad where the railroad meets Waverly Street. There is a lot of wide street there. Additionally, there is a large, underutilized parking lot there which could readily and harmlessly be borrowed from MIT with permission,



But the DCR destroys as many animals as they can get away with, in consonance with the equally reprehensible City of Cambridge.

The Governor may be contacted at his on line form at http://www.mass.gov/governor/constituentservices/contact/.

MassDOT may be contacted at their on line form at http://www.massdot.state.ma.us/ContactUs.aspx.


What is Cambridge’s position on the destruction? Well the DCR does nothing without being certain they are in line with Cambridge wishes.

The lying by The Machine about environmental sainthood at the priceless Alewife reservation says exactly where The Machine is coming from, plus the nonstop nonsense spouted by The Machine that the last 13 years do not exist on the Charles River says everything about The Cambridge Machine.

The Cambridge City Council has failed to fire the current City Manager, Robert Healy in spite of very clear court authorization / encouragement to do so. The check to the victim was $8.3 million. They are apparently replacing him with his long time assistant who has been in the middle of the environmental destruction.

Why? Well, Cambridge has the massive, lying Cambridge Machine to cover their backs.
? Well, Cambridge has the massive, lying Cambridge Machine to cover their backs.