"For now, at least, the chain saws are off-limits at the Bohemian Grove, the woody retreat of America’s rich and powerful. The Bohemian Club, an all-male bastion synonymous with wealth and influence, had big plans for its private enclave on the Russian River, 75 miles north of San Francisco. Too big, as it turns out".
"Over the years, the Bohemian Club had quietly logged millions of board-feet of timber from its grove, home to endangered or threatened birds such as marbled murrelets and northern spotted owls, coho salmon, steelhead and rare stands of Coast redwoods and Douglas fir, some of them more than 1,000 years old. The land is well hidden from public view, and until recently, state regulators seemed to pay little attention to the club’s forest practices."
"The 133-year-old Bohemian Club includes CEOs, bankers, industrialists, military contractors and high-ranking government officials. Its membership roster is secret, but reportedly includes every Republican president since Herbert Hoover, (with the rumored exception of W, whose membership bid is said to be pending). The billionaire Koch brothers, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, the Bechtels and Clint Eastwood are among the more illustrious of the Bohemians, believed to number 2,300 members".....read more here
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