South Georgia Spotlight: Cairo, Georgia Cairo (pronounced KAY-row) earned its best-known nickname the old-fashioned way. In the 1800s, Seaborn Anderson Roddenbery began selling open-kettle cane syrup from a horse-drawn buggy,…
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.
