South Georgia Spotlight: Baxley, Georgia Baxley earned its place on the map the old-fashioned way: timber, turpentine, and a railroad. Named for Wilson Baxley, a North Carolinian who arrived in…
Georgia is the nation’s No. 1 timber state, a $59.4 billion industry supporting 177,000 jobs. But 20 pulp and paper mills have closed across the Southeast in the past decade, and pulpwood prices sit at a 40-year low. Part II of our timber series looks at how the industry is answering, from new state tax credits to new uses for Georgia pine.
