In my Dream Commune, the women and children live together in a big timber-frame homestead (in which I have my own wing, cherishing privacy as well as company) and the men have their own Long House where they can watch sports and never worry about leaving socks on the floor.
The occasion was the annual conference of the Sustainable Forest Industry SFII,) a creation of Big Timber whose raison d'etre is to cover up all their unsightly and destructive clearcuts with a kinder, gentler "green" label.
Big timber is a cultural icon of a time long past when dudes with big beards actually did work in logging camps.
ForestEthics and Greenpeace charge that the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, or S.F.I., a group originally formed by big timber companies, defrauds the public by certifying that products carrying its label are harvested using only environmentally responsible practices.
Odds were good that there was at least one unsuspecting local in the joint with an inflated impression of his talent for pocketing balls, and thus a willingness to throw down "big timber" against the out-of-towner.
Big Timber was a town 36 miles away.
He's from an old landowning family; he ran big timber and cattle operations, and was always a member in good standing of the national business elite.
Since 1900, when Frederick Weyerhaeuser, a German immigrant, and 15 partners purchased 900,000 acres (364,217 hectares) of land from a railway company in Washington state, big timber enterprises have held land for decades.
Wes Henthorne, the ranch manager at the B Bar Ranch in Big Timber, Montana, and an expert on this type of cow, compares it to driving a car: "Ancient White Park cattle can sustain themselves on a lower ration of nutrition," he said.
Get some big timber beams and peg them together in a roof shape.
