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