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 on their desks.” Many of the school’s more than 300 graduates became influential leaders in both government and industrial forestry.
Cradle of Forestry in America is Schenck’s own story of his beloved school. But it’s also the story of the birth of forest conservation in America. Clashes with men like Gifford Pinchot—his predecessor, friend, and rival—helped shape the very movement inspired and spurred by Schenck’s Biltmore work. Today Schenck’s philosophy remains controversial: “That forestry is best which pays best.”
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Cradle of Forestry in America
The Biltmore Forest School of 1893-1913
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- 1. Background For A New World
- 2. Sir Dietrich Brandis
- 3. Biltmore, U.S.A., 1895
- 4. Profile Of Pisgah Forest
- 5. The Dam On Big Creek
- 6. The Cloudy Dawn Of Private Forestry
- 7. The Germ Of A Forest School
- 8. The Pinkbeds And The Mountaineers
- 9. A Trip To Minnesota
- 10. A Mistress Arrives At Biltmore
- 11. Random Journeys
- 12. Some Notables Who Came To Biltmore
- 13. Foresters, Beware!
- 14. The Year Of Upturn
- 15. The Parting Of Ways With Pinchot
- 16. A Portent Of Coming Events
- 17. Reverses At Biltmore
- 18. A Visit From Peter Thomson
- 19. “Try To Sell Pisgah Forest”
- 20. The Biltmore Forest Festival
- 21. Last Days At Biltmore
- 22. The Odyssey Of The Biltmore Forest School
- 23. A Farewell Message To My Biltmore Boys
- Some Publications by the Author
- Index
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