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Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School of 1893-1913

By Carl Alwin Schenck, Ovid Butler (Editor), Steven Anderson (Introduction)
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By Carl Alwin Schenck, Ovid Butler (Editor), Steven Anderson (Introduction)
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Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck, a forester born and educated in Germany, arrived in America in April 1895 to manage the 125,000-acre forest on George W. Vanderbilt’s famed Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, celebrated today as the “Cradle of Forestry in America.”

To train men to assist him in the woods, in 1898 Schenck started the Biltmore Forest School, America’s first forestry school. As Schenck noted with pride, “My boys worked continuously in the woods, while those at other schools saw wood only...

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