Planting Southern Pines: Wakeley Envisioned Economic Potential

By Jim Barnette, Forests & People

The period from 1900 to 1920 marked the “golden” era of lumbering in Louisiana; an era when the state’s old-growth forests were harvested with a “cut-out and get-out” attitude. Large and small sawmills harvested these forests with no thought of reforestation.