Carl Alwin Schenck Forest

… central Wake County, approx. 3 mi. W of North Carolina State University. Covers 245 acres. Est. 1936 and afterward named in honor of Schenck (1865-1955) who, in 1898, founded the first forestry school in the United States at Biltmore Forest, which see. The school was closed in 1912. The Schenck Forest, owned and operated by the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, N.C. State University, is used for demonstration, research, and forest genetics. Schenck's ashes are scattered in the forest.