ECOLOGICAL CRIME OF THE DECADE 2003-2013 IV

MANY people may look at the photos, evidence of the crime in question, and may think, so what?
Well, if you are worried about environmental issues, organic/slow food for example, or if you are not, perhaps putting this imbecility in context may help.

Here a few words from Life in a Cubic Foot, by Edward O. Wilson, National Geographic, February 2010, page 70.

 

Most of the organisms in the biosphere, and the vast number of the its species, can be found at the surface or just below it.  Through their bodies pass the cycles of chemical reactions upon which all of life depends.  With precision exceeding anything our technology can match, some of the species break down the dead plant and animal material from above.  Specialized predators and parasites feed on these scavengers, and higher level specialists feed on then in turn.  The whole, working together in a constant turnover of birth and death, returns to the plants the nutrients needed to continue photosynthesis. Without the smooth working of all this linkage the biosphere will cease to exist.

 

In brief when Mallea/Ocampo,  gave the order to destroy all the vegetation, besides compacting the soil, arbitrarily and capriciously, all life on the soil was washed down, exterminated.

If you pale reader still have any doubts about the implications of this ecological crime, kindly check this link:
http://antigonumcajaneveningpost.blogspot.com/2011/06/parque-dona-ines-alberto-areces-mallea.html

The information above, a three part post,  is taken from the most important reference there is regarding forest restoration, The Once and Future Forest, a book Mallea/Ocampo and their accomplices, Recursos Naturales et all,  evidently never heard off or had a chance to read.

It is ironic that Tito Trinidad, a former boxing champion from Puerto Rico, was fined 250,000
USA dollars for moving soil/water on his property, by Recursos Naturales, actions for which the engineer and employee were responsible.  I believe, when I look at the photos to your right, it was because he was black, not having any of the academic titles of the criminal in charge of Parque Donha Ines.

On the next episode, some of the vegetation destroyed.  When I look at the photos, can not stop thinking of Hebrews in Germany, Muslims in Kosovo.  The intention, attitude was not different.

One last word. The total salary earned by the Mallea/Ocampo tag team,  before taxes in this decade, is about a million around/or  100,000 annually.

that is that

 

 

 

PARQUE DONHA INES CRIMEN ECOLOGICO DE LA DECADA

DURANTE el 2003 fui testigo de la destruccion de 15 cuerdas de terreno en el Parque Donha Ines, con la complicidad de la Fundacion Luis Munhoz Marin i su junta de directores.  Recursos Naturales, el municipio de Trujillo Alto en adicion a los medios de comunicacion que con bombos i platillos anunciaban el gran proyecto que a un costo de unos 10 millones de dolares dejaron una destruccion de toda la vegetacion que cubria el suelo, flora/fauna sin un inventario botanico para poder determinar si el suenho endemico de Alberto Areces Mallea/Gabriela Ocampo seria un exito o fracaso para nuestro medioambiente, luego de destruir todo el habitat con un tractor gigantesco compactando el suelo, dejandolo expuesto a la erosion todo el entorno como puede apreciarse en las fotos.

El otro crimen inexplicable fue la erradicacion de arboles, vegetacion de todo tipo con el unico proposito de triturarla para los montajes que el Sr. Mallea llevaba a cabo para que Recursos Naturales le permitiera el alquiler de una trituradora descomunal cada cierto tiempo.

Nadie cuestionaba la correccion, proposito de tales absurdos que durante los ultimos anhos he venido denunciando en varios blogs
que por este tiempo estuve publicando.  Mallea, un academico con mas titulos que la Duquesa de Alba, no contaba con el titulo mas elemental, instalacion/manejo de areas verdes, sino en investigacion de cactaceas, lo cual demostro con su arrogante actitud, junto a su esposa que sin ser agronoma colegiada en Puerto Rico, firmo un pocoton de documentos como tal, lo cual es fraude en cualquier foro

Nunca olvido la occasion en que al ver el resultado de su estupidez garrafal al haber dejado el suelo totalmente desnudo, luego de cada aguacero,  procedio junto a su senhora a tirar semillas de Bermuda grass/Kentucky rye.

Todos esos millones de dolares, provenientes de bancos conocidos por lavar dinero i fondos publicos, no mejoraron para nada nuestro medioambiente/habitat/flora/fauna, sino un entorno reducido, sepultado bajo concreto/asfalto como cualquiera que pase e investigue podra constatar.

Lo patetico es que aun no existe alguna pagina en la web para ver que importancia o trascendencia puede tener haber colectado arboles endemicos mayoritariamente, sin contar con arbustos, plantas, pastos nativos, cubresuelos o enredaderas, i haber sembrado sin haber hecho un analisis de suelo pertinente en dicho parque.

El danho exacto jamas se sabra, no habiendo un inventario botanico previo a lo que podria calificarse como limpieza botanica, parecida al concepto 'ethnic cleansing'.  La impunidad con la que se llevo a cabo, la indiferencia de los medios deja claro una cosa.  En Puerto Rico cualquier chupatuercas puede venir a destruir nuestro patrimonio con teorias que solo tienen algun valor en las mentes enfermas/utopicas, sin credenciales de quienes solo pueden encontrar un nicho entre ignorantes, dociles i dispuestos a obtener su sueldo, sin importer las consecuencias para la flora i fauna, lo que se intentaba mejorar.
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ANTOLOGIA MINIMA PRIMERA DECADA

He decidido poner al alcance de nuevos lectores,
particularmente a los enajenados que sienten, piensan, creen, promulgan que unas mierda de tubos PVC, son un 'jardin', con plantas equivocadas que moriran sin riego, para no entrar en las joyas pictoricas que 'adornan' edificios abandonados, I sin mencionar cuanto restara de los cien mil toletes que con bombo y platillo anunciaron seria el costo de estas abominaciones. 

Los enlaces dejan ver algo de la trayectoria critico/pragmatica, con referencias, una practica con mas de cien especies... que como indica el titulo, no comenzo ayer, del mismo modo que no he recibido un centavo por sembrar nada en aquellos espacios abandonados, restaurados y consistentemente destruidos.

El primer proyecto de denuncia fue el Parque Donha Ines, en complicidad con la FLMM y 007
Recursos Naturales. En Isla Estrella cualquiera obtiene un pocoton de dinero para destruir el entorno sumido en la mas garrafal ignorancia del entorno urbano, la flora I fauna.

Los enlaces no estan en orden sino tema.

Si puede refutar, sientase libre.

 

 

http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/search?q=alberto+areces+mallea


http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2013/05/parque-donha-ines-crimen-ecologico-de_20.html

http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2013/05/parque-donha-ines-crimen-ecologico-de.html

http://endemismotrasnochado.blogspot.com/2009/03/critical-horticulture-parque-donha-ines.html


Sobre este asunto existen no menos de 15 articulos, pero para no cansar a los legos que seguramente nos visitaran, vamos a otros temas.

UN video alegre sobre el patetico paisaje de la suburbia bayamonesa e Isla Estrella, en general.  Como he escrito mas de cien veces hay que ser bien cretino para tener grama, cuyo manejo, a menos que posea cabras/ovejas/vacas require gasoline, aceite, ruido I contaminacion con gases, fertilizantes, herbicidas, fungicidas, insecticidas I riego con agua potable...Las palmas ya sabemos otra estupidez por su tamanho e inutilidad respecto a dar sombra, capacidad de crear toneladas de basura organica con semillas/pencas.

.http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2014/01/pendejismo-paisjiista-cookie-mold-kind.html

Me voy cansando. Asi que aqui me quedo. Si llego  hasta aqui y siente alguna curiosidad, esta listo para refutar algo o todo de lo expuesto, siga adelante I visite:

endemismotrasnochado.blogspot.com
caribbeanbotanicalreview.blogspot.com
antigonumcajaneveningpost.blogspot.com
thephotoarchivesof endemismotrasnochado.blogspot.com
anglospanoreview.blogspot.com

I otros, cuyos nombres ya no recuerdo. Asi que ya sabe, sentar pautas es la motivacion, debatir en el foro pertinente siempre es posible si hubiere muestras de credenciales, absoluta falta de pecunio, fondos federales/estatales despilfarrados como es uso y costumbre. Este es sobre ustedes.
http://noalpendejismopaisajista.blogspot.com/2013/06/la-tirania-de-la-ignorancia-supina-en.html#comments.

Lo mejor es quedarse en su habitat acuatico, habiendo mostrado una ignorancia garrafal,  como ISlA ESTRELLA, de estatura gigante respecto a instalacion manejo de areas verdes, flora/fauna en el entorno urbano.

Unos tubo PVC jardin?  Ni sonhandolo.

 

60 YEARS WITH BOTANICAL INVENTORIES

THANKS to my training in the New York Botanical, I have kept some focus on all the issues regarding horticulture, gardening, farming, environment, reforestation, nature, habitat, flora and fauna, water, soil and air and many other issues directly/indirectly related to those things, creatures that keep us living. 

These last ten years have not been easy around here.  It seems the national pastime is not to accept criticism, to act like a fool over and over expecting new, different results.  The default on the 100 billion national debt, is just one token.

In the beginning, I believed that not having a botanical inventory at hand, would make any juan a jerk in this field, unfortunately, that is the rule, the majority of the population does not keep one, including owners of nurseries, local edible garden gurus/preachers and other people in related enterprises.

The only possible way any nature/landscape restoration can take place in the mostly sterile asphalt/concrete urban contexts in Puerto Rico is to study, propagate and plant vegetation according to their eco-region.  Contrary to custom and use: selling trees or giving them gratis to the people to be planted in the worst possible places, sidewalks for example.

Every tree in the metro zone of San Juan, has been chosen mistakenly and planted by feeble minds. It is not the exception, but the rule.  There are some Higuaca Landscape people in Guanica, a desert by isle standards, planting turf and very proud of it.  Same goes with palms, hedges and Ficus.

Inventories could solve many problems in the long run, if people started thinking, looking, considering growth habits before any planting takes place.  The other advantage of this study, is to become aware of how fashion, impositions from nurseries to the public destroy the variety, aesthetics and beauty of the scenery, not only in my context, but those in rural areas are also contaminated with the same nursery  available crap.

The first link below is our own. With over one hundred species keeping and updating the inventory allows your truly to determine how fast/slow anything growths, effects of drought, shade, humidity and diseases depending on their relation to the four cardinal points, another issue swept under the carpet.

These plants, trees, bushes, succulents, orchids, vines, moss in Sociedad Horticultural Bouret's collection are not from nurseries except, maybe five out of the over one hundred.  The garden has been a work under construction for the last five years with one great misfortune. The Guaicum officinale, me pride and joy, passed away last month after a rotation to avoid them branches to hang in the electrical wires as time went by. RIP 

http://moorslayer.blogspot.com/2013/01/botanical-inventory-2012-refried-post.html


The most documented garden in the Caribbean is followed by the inventory from the Luis Munhoz Marin Plantation in Trujillo Alto and the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras.

http://anglospanoreview.blogspot.com/2009/10/fundacion-luis-munhoz-marin-foundation.html

Let the record show that many edibles/fruit trees in the LMM plantation, --ruled by leeches-- were destroyed by the Alberto Areces Mallea/Gabriela Ocampo team, their rivals from Parque Donha Ines . Therefore, the inventory is not about what is left standing, but was there once upon a time when the god like figure in the isle politics, lived there with wife and children.

 

 

 http://caribbeanbotanicalreview.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html

The UPR was a magnificent example of green scenery with some rudimentary beauty, since no landscape architect/arborist was there to design a plan with rules of composition, an aesthetic most, or integrated pest management or just management for  trees and surroundings. A visit there now, will let you down...It feels like Detroit, Michigan...instead of abandoned, dilapidated structures...it is the vegetation...sick, mutilated trees, ill pruned hedges too tall or too wide, cracked, uneven pavements, hell on earth if you ask me.


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The last link, the Diaz/Sola family botanical inventory at Manuel Soto Aponte street in the Caguas Country, has some affective load, beyond my usual distant, cold ways regarding gardening study and research.

I met the family during my high school/college days spending lots of fun and joy times during that decade, circa 1969.  The historical significance of all these inventories is that I do not know of any one bothering to study the pathetic, dull, boring, lacking imagination  aesthetics/composition gardens, except Parque Luis Munhoz Rivera, in San Juan, the only exception, but that was seven decades ago.

The lack of research, a result of lame landscape architects copying what they see in Florida,  explains why in Puerto Rico the lobby entrance of a hotel, a school, cemetery, backyard residence, highway median all look the same with the same stupid plants hedges, palms, Ficus and turf, planted in the same copy cat way with the same stupid predictable curves,...No context is considered or used, or growth habit, irrigation/soil need and you name it.
 

 

http://caribbeanbotanicalreview.blogspot.com/2011/05/historical-urban-garden-inventory-in.html

 

BAN THE TURF MOVE TO NATURAL LANDSCAPING

THERE are a couple of things most governments and people forget in countries ruled by bankers/politicians in democracies around the world.  The financial crisis, bubble burst had to come soon or later, the destruction of what many thought their way of life, for themselves and their 'future generations'.

If there was no crisis, how could any economy absorb the constant population growth of most countries on one hand, on the other, aging population lasting more and more and more, requiring expensive care...with less and less jobs? 

Think about it...right now lets move to something that governments, people and individuals could do with imagination and commitment, little or no expense, getting rid of turf/lawns in residences and many public spaces, improving life for ourselves, our resources, our flora and fauna, no matter where you live.

'HOW TO' NATURAL LANDSCAPING

 

 



Designing, installing and managing natural landscaping projects will vary in complexity and approach depending upon the nature of the site and  the project goals.  There are different degrees of natural landscaping, ranging all the way from a small native flower patch, to a full-scale replication of a plant community covering many acres.  An otherwise traditionally landscaped site may be installed with a 'natural' stormwater lagoon with a fringe of native wetland plants and upland buffer to trap sediment.

Larger projects have the most at stake, financially and visually. They require a detailed and technical planning process. Some examples of larger scale projects include corporate campuses, university lands and large community parks.

ETHICS OF USING NATIVE PLANTS

Regardless of the scope or goals of your project, there are important ethical considerations regarding how to obtain native seeds and plant material for your project garden.  Native seeds or plugs must be acquired from a reputable supplier.  It is inappropriate under any circumstances for amateur gardeners or professionals to collect seeds plants from 'the wild' except by permission of the owner or as part of a restoration program.

Collection of too many plants or seeds can seriously reduce the ability of the plundered site to replenish itself. Seed collecting ethics are rigorously followed by volunteer groups working with forest preserve districts, other owners of natural sites and professionals in the nursery business.

DEVELOPING AN APPROACH

Planning even if informal, is a fundamental ingredient for a successful natural landscaping project.  The greater the ambition or the shorter the timetable, the more planning and  technical expertise will be required.  A starting point for any natural landscaping project is to analyze the current amenities,
opportunities and limitations of your site and articulate reasonable goals.

A basic underpinning for any natural landscaping project would be an understanding of current soil conditions.  This
knowledge will assist you with your decision about what you can plant where, since soil conditions can vary dramatically across a site.  A soil scientist, such as your local agent from the US Department of  Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, can tell you the type of soil that you have and the kind of material from which it was derived.  The more a project is oriented toward restoration, the more it must take factors  such as particular soil conditions into account.

Prairie, woodland/savanna, and wetland/riparian projects will have different requirements and will be treated separately in this chapter, although all could exist on one site.  In addition,
this chapter will discuss  how to address stormwater management using natural landscaping integrated into a project's overall design.

 A few words for  readers in Puerto Rico

 

 

I will not pretend or give the impression that I am the one and only authority on this subject and many others related, however, let the record show that I have not seen anything in any source locally on the subject, not from phd's such as Alberto Areces Mallea, in Parque Donha Ines, thinking of endemisms as just trees and infatuated will palm trees/turf.  Or the GAIA, Agrochic,  people into the lettuce/tomato/peppers orbit,  los del Estuario, recyclers,

organic agriculture freaks and every other claque one sees on television or media in general.

 

Now imagine any surface covered with turf in the "Botanical" in io Piedras or Caguas, the UPR campus, the San Juan-Ponce highway median to name a few,  planted  instead with Hypogea gangetica, Barleria repens and Arashis or the one of your preference.

 Life without noise, gas/oil/fumes, pollution.

 

Reference

US Environmental Protection Agency

Green Landscaping with Native Plants

Chapter 4

pages 1-2

 

to be continued...