Didn't he say something during his "confession" to Gale that he wanted to build a church? Maybe that's where he plans to put using the trees he's cutting to build a log cabin-type of structure.

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Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

--Lines 2-6, "The Second Coming" by Wm. Butler Yeats