South Georgia Spotlight: Albany, Georgia Albany was founded in 1836 by Nelson Tift, who named it after Albany, New York, hoping the new settlement on the Flint River would become…
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.
