South Georgia Spotlight: Blakely, Georgia Early County was created in 1818 and named for Georgia Governor Peter Early. When Baker County was carved out of it in 1825, residents had…
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.
