sentences:  Towards the end of the Second World War, Wier sold his operation and closed down the mill, leading to the decline of Wiergate and Bon Wier.Although Wier Longleaf Lumber Company provided jobs in this area of the rural South during the Great Depression, it was at the expense of tremendous environmental damage and diminishment of ecological diversity.Whereas before the region was home to southern magnolia, black cherry, and white ash trees, the company reseeded the area with faster-growing loblolly pines.