Roads continue to finger into the foothills, ending in cul-de-sacs of modern log homes.
Traditional features are given a new twist – a modern log burning stove, and a suspended oak and steel staircase that leads up to the first floor.
A development built in the 1980's, Mountain View Estates, has houses on two-and-a-quarter-acre lots for $350,000 to $800,000; another development, Happy Hill, has modern log houses for $350,000 to $700,000.
At the highest elevation of Pine Mountain, the Mountain Top Inn and Resort has 30 modern log cabin vacation homes and room for 100 more on privately owned land surrounded by the Roosevelt State Park.
In mechanized modern logging, trees are felled by crosscut saw or power-driven chain saw or, for trees of relatively young plantations, by a machine that cuts the entire tree in one bite.
In effect a traverse would be run with the ship's bearing measured by compass and distances obtained either by measuring speed and time or by a modern log that directly records distances.
The headquarters, which looks like a very modern log cabin, features a big conference table, flat-screen televisions, a bar, pretty assistants and a dining table that is always set.
The tv ads for IVillage.com, one of the rising stars in the ever-expanding galaxy of women's Web sites, suggests that, for the modern woman, logging on to the Internet provides all the comfort Mom found in the long hot bath combined with the fun and fellowship of an evening out with the girls.
Modern cars log detailed data their manufacturers can access if they so desire.
