Timber’s Term of the Week: Timber Beast

Timber Beast n

Forest Service personnel (or any establishment types) who invariably side with timber industry. Someone obsessed with denuding woodland of all marketable timber. A logger. A lumberjack. The title of a book by Archie Binns, copyright 1944.

Like most definitions, the meaning of Timber Beast has morphed over the years. The first definition is how it is currently used, foresters abetting the timber industry’s greed. In the first part of the twentieth century, a timber beast was often at odds with [...]