The Biltmore Forest School was the first school of forestry in North America. Carl A. Schenck founded this school of "practical forestry" in 1896 on George...
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Biltmore Forest is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,343 in 2010. It is part of the Asheville Metropolitan...
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Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. The main residence, Biltmore House (or...
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Biltmore may refer to: Biltmore Forest, North Carolina, a town in Buncombe County Biltmore Village, a village now within Asheville The Biltmore Estate...
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The Biltmore Company is an American firm that owns and operates Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The company is owned by the family of William...
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The Cradle of Forestry, (Biltmore Forest School), located in the southern part of the forest, was the site of the first school of forestry in the United...
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Carl A. Schenck (category Biltmore Forest School)
the Biltmore Estate, he became the third formally trained forester in the United States. He established and operated the Biltmore Forest School, the...
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The Biltmore stick is a tool used by foresters to estimate tree trunk diameter at breast height. The tool very often includes a hypsometer scale to estimate...
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Outline of forestry (section Forest management)
management techniques into American forest management, and founder of Biltmore Forest School, the first forestry school in the United States Károly Bund...
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Forestry (redirect from Forest science)
Ingenieros de Montes), founded in 1844. The first in North America, the Biltmore Forest School was established near Asheville, North Carolina, by Carl A. Schenck...
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at Cornell had 24 students, Biltmore Forest School 9, and Yale 7. Despite its small size, from its beginnings the school influenced American forestry...
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West Shore Railroad Western Union American Women's War Relief Fund Biltmore Forest School Council on African Affairs Foch Hospital International Auxiliary...
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National Forest (part) Pisgah National Forest (part) Biltmore Forest School Bracken Preserve Davidson River Recreational Area Dupont State Forest Game Land...
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George Washington Vanderbilt II (section Biltmore)
United States Forest Service, Biltmore was the first professionally managed forest in the U.S. It was also the site of the Biltmore School of Forestry,...
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Inman F. Autobiography of and by Inman F. Eldrege. (Asheville, NC: Biltmore Forest School. 1905)". Lib.ncsu.edu. Retrieved 2012-03-17. "Wentling, John Philip...
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Frederick E. Olmsted (category Biltmore Forest School)
initially trained in forestry at the Biltmore Forest School, an educational outgrowth of his uncle's suggestions for Biltmore Estate. His son, Frederick Olmsted...
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Swift Berry (category Biltmore Forest School)
degree from the Biltmore Forest School, in part due to a thesis on logging and lumber flumes in California. In 1912, he became Forest Examiner and in...
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received his PhD in forestry from Giessen, founded the Biltmore Forest School, the first such school in the United States. Fitsum Assefa is an Ethiopian...
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Imperial University, now Kyoto University, Japan 1898, September 1 - Biltmore Forest School, Asheville, North Carolina, USA (Carl A. Schenck, founder); closed...
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America's First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment about the history and legacy of Carl A. Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School. The Society...
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Gifford Pinchot (category United States Forest Service officials)
Schenk, Carl (1955). Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913. Forest History Society. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-89030-055-8. Bradley...
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designated by Sister Cities International: Pietroasa, Bihor, Romania Biltmore Forest School Brevard County, Florida "North Carolina Gazetteer". Retrieved December...
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nearby is the Cradle of Forestry, where the very first school of forestry, the Biltmore Forest School, was founded by Carl A. Schenck in 1898. Three miles...
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of Biltmore Estate is completed. 1897 – Zebulon Baird Vance monument erected in Pack Square. 1898 Manor Hotel in business. Biltmore Forest School established...
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Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (category Madeira School alumni)
inherited the Biltmore estate. Her mother sold approximately 86,000 acres (350 km2) of the Biltmore property to the United States Forest Service to create...
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Paul Starrett (category Lake Forest Academy alumni)
In 1883, he graduated from Lake Forest Academy, an elite boarding school for boys which was part of the Lake Forest, Illinois, educational experiment...
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Forestry in Bangladesh - Bernard Fernow - Forestry in Bhutan - Biltmore Forest School - Biltmore stick - Biochar - Biscuit Fire publication controversy - Bog-wood...
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Fernow visited George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate, where Dr. Carl Schenck was establishing the Biltmore Forest School. Fernow saw the mission of forestry...
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sold the land around the Biltmore Estate to the United States Forest Service. This became part of the Pisgah National Forest. On October 22, 1925, she...
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Joseph S. Illick (category Biltmore Forest School)
to 1951. He was a graduate of Lafayette College (1907), and the Biltmore Forest School (1913); he studied at the University of Munich, as well. Prior to...
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