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11/23/08
Map of Old Growth Redwood and Douglas Fir Trees NOT shown in Club's NTMP published online

	Over the years, Bohemian Club members have walked throughout the Bohemian Grove admiring the pristine old-growth trees (Redwood and Doug. Fir). Some have kept track of the whereabouts of these groves. This map shows some of the old-growth trees mysteriously excluded from the Club's so called "Non-Industrial" Timber Harvest Plan (NTMP).

9/19/08
John Hooper Update: Bohemian Club's NTMP Application Unnecessary

	In this short 2 minute statement John Hooper summarizes why the Bohemian Clubs NTMP Application is not required if the Club is serious about old-growth redwood restoration... or is the Club's public posturing a disguise for their real intention: perpetual logging of the Bohemian Grove? CLICK HERE

9/19/08
CA Dept. of Fish and Game documents reveal Bohemian Club meddling

It is highly unusual for a member of the public to intervene with a state employee. But the record shows that Pat Gilliigan, then Chair of the Grove Committee of the Bohemian Club, wrote Stacy Martinelli, DFG staff biologist who had written a very critical report about the impacts of the Grove NTMP, asking her to send her report to the Director of DFG. CLICK HERE FOR MORE

9/14/08
National Geographic reporter suprised to find so few old-growth and second-growth redwood forests in California

Mike Fay, who is doing a major article for National Geographic about the coastal redwoods, recently reported on the state of California's redwoods. The "surprises" he identified are highlighted here:

"People asked us what our biggest surprise was. I would say for me they were three. This first was the vast and beautiful network of riparian old growth redwood forests in Big Sur. The second was what amounts to the beginnings of a Marshall Plan of road and creek restoration that his happening on the ground. The third was the young age of the majority of redwood forest in the range."

As environmentalists have been trying say for years, most redwood stands are very young. This is why the combined old growth stands mixed with older (100 year old) second growth redwood stands which compose most of the Bohemian Grove property are so rare and important to protect.

9/13/08
Botanist Peter Baye critiques Bohemian Club's forest studies

Botanist Peter Baye's comprehensive critique of the Bohemian Club's studies of plants, vegetation and endangered wildlife portrays a now familiar pattern on the part of the Bohemian Club of "failing to disclose critical information, submitting sloppy and incomplete studies and generally ignoring basic legal requirements." CLICK HERE FOR MORE

7/13/2008
Bohemian Club's latest ploy: Orchestrating a Bait and Switch

The Bohemian Club is secretly circulating a new NTMP among a selected few individuals in an effort to "pre-sell" a sanitized document which the public has no access to. This could be interpreted as good news, except for the fact that Grove forester Nick Kent was recently quoted in the media saying that the Bohemian Club now seeks to harvest 700,000 board feet of redwood and fir each year. This is half again as much as the historically destructive rate of 500,000 board feet per year which the Club has cut since 1984!

We have written both experts involved alerting them to the likelihood that they have been misled into commenting on a "phantom" document.

Click Here to read the letter exchange between Professor Stephen C. Sillett (Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology - Humboldt State) and John Hooper.

7/21/08
Video Interview with John Hooper

	In this video John describes the opportunity to preserve the largest unprotected old-growth stand in the San Francisco Bay Area and the ecological significance of the grove. CLICK HERE