Georgia-Pacific: Plywood’s Southern Yellow Revolution By K. Brad Barfield In the early 1960s, America’s plywood industry was geographically fixed in place. The Pacific Northwest—home to the towering Douglas fir—held a near-total monopoly on softwood plywood, and most experts believed it would stay that way forever. Southern Yellow Pine, the dominant species of the American South, was viewed as unworkable: too dense, too resinous, too unpredictable to peel into veneer. And yet, in that moment of

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