Save Bohemian Grove

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY

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Letter from
Philip W. Rundel
Distinguished Professor of Biology
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

TO: Ms. Leslie Markham
California Department of Forestry
RE:Bohemian Grove NTMP 1-06NTMP-011 SON

"...it appears that the information presented in the draft NTMP on conifer volume, sustained yield, and harvest levels are not calculated appropriately because of the inclusion of areas of old growth forest that will not be logged. For the areas specifically proposed for harvest, the scheduled intensities of logging are well beyond sustainable levels."

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Letter from
Mark A. Finney
Research Forester
Rocky Mountain Research Station

TO: Ms. Leslie Markham
California Department of Forestry
RE:Bohemian Grove NTMP 1-06NTMP-011 SON

"...this plan is little more than a strategy for
extracting commercially valuable products from the forests. Even if the logging could possibly lead to some reduction in hazard, I can find no evidence of an analysis capable of supporting this conclusion."

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Letter from
Reginald H. Barrett
Certified Wildlife Biologist

TO: Ms. Leslie Markham
California Department of Forestry
RE:Bohemian Grove NTMP 1-06NTMP-011 SON

This Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Management from UC Berkeley states: "...the RPF’s justification for the plan’s harvesting regime—that it will return the forest to something more like its original (old growth) condition—is erroneous."

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Letter from
Gregory A. Giusti
University of California
Cooperative Extension
Registered Professional Forester

TO: The California Department of Forestry
RE: THE BOHEMIAN CLUB NTMP
(1-06NTMP-011SON)

"The proposed silvicultural changes in the amended NTMP contradict the conventional wisdom among academics, researchers, practitioners and conservationists as how to best minimize the risk of coastal redwoods to catastrophic fire."

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COMMENTS ON CUMULATIVE
WATERSHED EFFECTS
FROM THE BOHEMIAN GROVE NTMP
(1-06NTMP-011SON) WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE
AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT AND
ESA-LIST PACIFIC SALMON SPECIES
by Patrick Higgins
|Consulting Fisheries Biologist

(13 megabyte pdf file)

This extensive 52 page report is repleat with maps, charts, diagrams.

"The proposed activities under the Bohemian Grove logging plan [1-06NTMP-011SON) are exactly the opposite of what is needed for the recovery of fish and wildlife in western Sonoma County and the Lower Russian River."

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ENGINEERING GEOLOGIC OVERVIEW OF SITE
Of Nonindustrial Timber Management Plan 1-06NTMP-011 SON
by Raymond Waldbaum
Registered Geologist 3142
Certified Engineering Geologist 923

This geological report concludes that the proposed Bohemian Grove logging is in an area "...where geologic instability... are present....investigation of the site is required to demonstrate the geologic feasibility of the defoliation and grading related to the proposed timber harvesting."

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REVIEW OF NTMP 1-06NTMP-011SON
The Proposed Bohemian Club Nonindustrial Timber Management Plan
by Professor Don C. Erman
Professor Emeritus

"The proposed timber harvesting plan for the Bohemian Grove will result in substantial changes in the structure of the forest and increased disturbance to the watershed. The plan will reduce the amount of hardwood by 50% area-wide and have a similar reduction in the amount of large diameter conifers. The streamside zones (riparian) will lose significant functional processes and the aquatic community will suffer over time."