cradle of forestry trails Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/cradle-of-forestry-trails Sun, 12 Mar 2017 17:04:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Cradle of Forestry http://toursmaps.com/cradle-of-forestry.html http://toursmaps.com/cradle-of-forestry.html#respond Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:45:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=235470 A LOOP AROUND PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST When George W. Vanderbilt arrived in western North Carolina in the late 1800s to build his grandiose Biltmore Estate, he had visions even grander than erecting the largest private home in America. Vanderbilt wanted a working estate, one with farms and forests that paid for themselves and were managed responsibly. He hired Gifford Pinchot as Biltmore’s first forester and eventually purchased some 125,000 acres of land southwest of Asheville, which he called Pisgah Forest. In 1895, German forester Dr. Carl Alvin Schenck took Pinchot’s place and founded Biltmore Forest School, the nation’s first school

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