Winn Parish capitalist, inventor, steel and railroad tycoon ... and timber man
Rarely do you hear or read of the name William Edenborn, even in Louisiana where he, among other things, with his own resources, built a...
Getting to bottom of ant world
Reforesting the South was big in the 1950s, but a tiny insect that grew in great numbers was thwarting those efforts in western Louisiana...
Direct seeding short-lived solution
Longleaf pine forests of Louisiana and East Texas were particularly devastated during the “golden age of lumbering” in the early 20th...
Passing down legacy of timber, memories
Burns Forest Products in Jonesboro was synonymous with the affable, white-haired LSU-loving forester who made his name in the piney woods...
POWs paid labor for agriculture in U.S.
After the United States entered World War II in 1941, the government of the United Kingdom requested American help with housing prisoners...
From La. to Ariz.: A sawmill town moves
In the early 20th century, when lumbering was at its prime in the South, lumbermen bought old-growth longleaf pine forests for as little...
