I was reading a good article about the Ga timber industry and it was claiming the lumber yards getting bought up from canadian companies and pretty much becoming monopolies. The mom and pop smaller ones cant compete. And if you want your timber cut, there just aren't as many within a 100 miles radius of you as there used to be and these big companies and offering the land/timber owner pennies...take it or leave it type of stuff. There just isn't any competition anymore. Land/timber owners are bending over and taking it.
