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Welcome To
Save The Bohemian Grove
This web site is dedicated to disseminating factually accurate information about proposed logging at the Bohemian Grove, using public comment, scientific studies, and expert testimony. Although  the Bohemian Club's  public relations firm seems intent on confusing the public and distorting the facts about the Bohemian Club's proposed logging activities, we will do our best to keep this site free of mis-information and we certainly have no interest in making personal attacks on anyone involved in The Bohemian Grove logging controversy.


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~ Breaking News ~

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

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

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


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

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
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7/15/08
Latest from the 2008 Encampment:

From someone attending
the Bohemian Encampment:

"I find that very few Club members have any idea as to what is going on. All the members know is that the Club is trying to reduce the fire risk and they feel that this is a good thing.  The Club certainly has not been open and truthful with the members about all the issues and why the application has been opposed. They blame it all, simplistically, on a dissident named Hooper without explaining the issues and the real reason for the Commission's refusal.

Incidentally, almost all the tan oaks are dying in the Grove and present a real fire hazard!

Best regards"
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