Sawmills and wood pellet plants pop up across Louisiana as firms bet on timber industry

  Earlier this month, Gov. John Bel Edwards and a gaggle of other officials trekked to the tiny town of Plain Dealing in northern Bossier Parish, where they announced the construction of a new, $110 million sawmill by British Columbia-based Teal Jones. The groundbreaking, where Edwards held a shovel and wore a cowboy hat as…