Record #:

8136

Author(s):

Louder, Darrell E.

Abstract:

The 3,800 acre Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is located in Graham County. This ageless forest, the last virgin forest on the East Coast, has never been touched by an axe and will remain so. It was dedicated in 1936 to the American soldier-poet, Joyce Kilmer, who wrote the famous poem “Trees,\" and was later killed in World War I on July 30, 1918.

Source:

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 30 Issue 8, Aug 1966, p8-9, il

Subject(s):

Old growth forests--Graham County