Records of the Forest Service. 1870 - 2008. Forest Service Public Information Films and Public Service Announcements. 1945 - 1995. Cradle of forestry
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Schenck, Carl Alwin, 1868-1955
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Carl Alwin Schenck, founder of the first forestry school in the United States, Biltmore Forest School (1898-1913), was born in Darmstadt, Germany on March 25, 1868. Prior to the opening of the school at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, he studied forestry in Tubingen and Giessen Universities, receiving a Doctorate of Philosophy. In 1895, he was appointed forester of the Biltmore Estate. He returned to Germany to marry Adele Bopp in 1896, and settled in North Carolina, where he o...
