Pacific Yurts article

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Interesting article about

Pacific Yurts

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Yurts endure | Longtime Cottage Grove firm finds itself on the right side of trends

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A few feet inside the warehouses, it smells like any other wood products manufacturing center: sawdust. But what’s neatly stacked this way and that are no ordinary two-by-fours. They’re curved.

Welcome to

Pacific Yurts

, a Lane County company that has been the industry leader in the yurt-making business since yurt making became a business, at least on a major scale. Which makes sense, really, because before a young college graduate named Alan Bair spotted a National Geographic article on Central Asia 40 years ago, these funny-looking round structures were the stuff of nomadic sheepherders....