Where Republicans Put on Neo-Pagan Pageants

You can imagine my enjoyment in seeing Bohemian Grove popping up here and there across the aether.  I am a collector of conspiracy theories in the same way Albus Dumbledore collects memories.
I came across Bohemian Grove while browsing a book once—can’t remember the title at this point.  I remember turning a page and seeing this forest scene, with a semi-circle of tables and hordes of men staring up at a cameraman, who must have been positioned on an elevated walkway (like the Ewoks) or else he’d scaled a redwood.  It was rather frightening and absurd at the same time.  What were these men doing eating a meal in a semi-circle in the middle of a forest?
Another photograph showed Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan flanking the then Bohemian chief Harvey Hancock.  As I researched Bohemian Grove, I learned that it was founded by a group of San Francisco journalists and artists—men of a more progressive spirit.  They desired to support the theatrical arts at Bohemian Grove, but soon realized that they needed money to accomplish their goal.
What did they do?  They started to invite Republican businessmen and political leaders.  In fact, every Republican president since 1923 has attended the midsummer encampment.  Their ranks swelled with Republicans until it became a summer Republican retreat filled with pageants, dinners, naked tomfoolery, pagan rituals, a great fake stone owl voiced by Walter Cronkite and the motto “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here.”
The Bohemians have logged the Grove however they saw fit for many years, but environmentalists like the Sierra Club have gone after the Grove for divesting itself of acres to fall below the 2500 acre threshhold to keep its 100-year logging permit.  According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Sonoma County Judge Rene Chouteau ruled that California forestry officials violated the Environmental Quality Act when it approved the club’s logging plan for the Bohemian Grove in 2009.”