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Carl Alwin Schenck (March 25, 1868 – May 17, 1955) was a German forester and pioneering forestry educator. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When Schenck came to the United States to work for George W. Vanderbilt at the Biltmore Estate , he became the third formally trained forester in the United States. [ 3 ]
Carl Heinrich Johann Schenck was a German technology pioneer and businessman who established Carl Schenck Eisengießerei & Waagenfabrik in 1881, in Darmstadt, Germany. [1] The company was the first manufacturer of the industrial balancing machine . [ 2 ]
Carl A. Schenck founded this school of "practical forestry" in 1896 on George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina. The school grounds are now part of Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County, North Carolina , as the Cradle of Forestry in America , a 6,500 acres (2,600 ha) historic site which features exhibits ...
In 2015 the Forest History Society produced the award-winning documentary film America's First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment about the history and legacy of Carl A. Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School. [5] The Society moved into its current headquarters building in 2019.
Adolph Schenck (1803–1878), German teacher and entomologist; Aubrey Schenck (1908–1999), film producer; August Friedrich Schenck (1828–1901), German painter; Carl Alwyn Schenck (1868–1955), German pioneer of forestry in the USA and Europe; Carl Schenck (1835–1910), German mercantilist and founder of the Carl Schenck Eisengießerei ...
The New York State College of Forestry, the first professional school of forestry in North America, opened its doors at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the autumn of 1898., [1] [2] [3] It was advocated for by Governor Frank S. Black, but after just a few years of operation, it was defunded in 1903, by Governor Benjamin B. Odell in response to public outcry over the College's ...
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