Record #:

34959

Author(s):

Markovich, Jeremy

Abstract:

North Carolina is known as the birth place of American forestry. Pioneers in the field such as Gifford Pinchot and Dr. Carl Schenk began their work in North Carolina, and created tactics such as prescribed burns, selective thinning, and management plans. This has ensured a profitable logging industry while keeping forests sustainable and healthy.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 5, October 2017, p120-134, il, por, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Forest management; Forests and forestry--History; Schenck, Carl Alvin, 1868-1955

Record #:

34960

Author(s):

Flynn, Louise Jarvis

Abstract:

The first forestry plan in the United States was created for Biltmore Estates by Gifford Pinchot. This would change how the country viewed forest conservation, making it both profitable and practical. Pinchot’s successor, Dr. Carl Schenck, created a forestry school to teach the new generation of forester management skills and techniques. Together, these two men created took European models and tailoring to the American landscape.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 5, October 2017, p137-140, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Forests and forestry--History; Schenck, Carl Alvin, 1868-1955; Biltmore Forest

Record #:

7873

Author(s):

Foster, Eden

Abstract:

When George Vanderbilt purchased 125,000 acres near Asheville to build his home, Biltmore, he also hired landscape architects and forestry experts to restore land that had been eroded and poorly harvested. He hired the well-known forester Gilford Pinchot to implement sound forestry practices. When Pinchot left to head the U.S. Forest Service in 1895, Vanderbilt replaced him with Carl Schenck, a forester from Germany. Schenck founded the Biltmore Forest School in 1898, the first forestry school in the nation. During the school's fifteen years of operation, 350 foresters from all over the country graduated. What they learned and later practiced in their home areas laid the foundations for forest management practices that we take for granted today. The school and 6,500 acres surrounding it were designated a national historic site in 1976.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 1, June 2006, p168-170, 172, 174, 176-177, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Biltmore Forest School; Schenck, Carl Alvin, 1868-1955; Forests and forestry--Asheville

Record #:

3885

Author(s):

Earley, Lawrence S.

Abstract:

Carl Schenck, manager of the Biltmore Forest, founded the nation's first forestry school in 1898. The Biltmore Forest School opened the country to the concept of forest management. Today, such new ideas as seeing forests as sustainable and as part of a larger landscape guide forestry management.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 62 Issue 11, Nov 1998, p22-27, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Forest management; Forests and forestry; Schenck, Carl Alvin, 1868-1955

Record #:

4190

Author(s):

Liles, Granville

Abstract:

When George Vanderbilt purchased 125,000 acres near Asheville to build his home, Biltmore, he also hired landscape architects and forestry experts to restore land that had been eroded and poorly harvested. He hired Carl Schenck, a forester from Germany, in 1895. Schenck founded the Biltmore Forest School in 1898, the first forestry school in the nation. The school and 6,400 acres surrounding it were designated a national historic site in 1976.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 58 Issue 5, Oct 1990, p31-33, il, por

Subject(s):

Biltmore Forest School; Schenck, Carl Alvin, 1868-1955; Forestry management--Asheville; Forests and forestry--Asheville