Biltmore Forest

… a part of the Biltmore Estate in S Buncombe County, approx. 11,000 acres along the Swannanoa and French Broad Rivers. Alt. approx. 2,000-2,300. Est. 1890 on land largely cut over; planting continued until about 1911. Gifford Pinchot, the first trained American forester, planned and directed the work. In 1898 Carl A. Schenck founded the Biltmore School of Forestry there, the first such school in the United States. See also Carl Alwin Schenck Forest.