DR. CARL ALYIN SCHEXCK, 

 DIRECTOR OF THE BII/TMORE FOREST SCHOOL. 



DR. CARL ALVIN SCHENCK is widely known as the forester to the Biltmore estate, in 

 North Carolina. He was born March 25, 1868, at Darmstadt, in Hesse ; attended the 

 high school and polytechnic institute in his native town ; studied a year at the Uni- 

 versity of Tubingen, and in 1888 entered for the prescribed course in forestry at the LTniversity 

 of Giessen. From that institution he was graduated in 1891, and immediately entered upon 

 the military service which every able-bodied German is obliged to perform. In 1894, after 

 some further study, he passed the state examination and was appointed Forstassessor, or 

 assists nt-in-f or esty to the government of Hesse-Darmstadt. In 1895 he obtained the degree of 

 Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Giessen. 



Dr. Schenck's energy and quick perception of all that relates to his profession recommended 

 him to Sir Dietrich Brandis, the German forester, to whom is due the great credit of estab- 

 lishing systematic forestry in British India. It was natural, therefore, that when Mr. Vander- 

 bilt asked Sir Dietrich to recommend a man to manage his forest estate in North Carolina, the 

 latter proposed his young friend Schenck. In this way German}- lost a good forester and the 

 United States gained one. 



Since taking up his work at Biltmore, in 1895, Dr. Schenck has shown his ability to 

 adapt his German training and German point of view to American forest conditions ; he has 

 broadened himself and so improved the forest under his charge that it is to-day the most con- 

 spicuous example of successful forest management in this country. In addition to all the 

 work ..ttcndant upon this task, Dr. Schenck, with Mr. Vanderbilt's concurrence, established a 

 school for foresters in iSt)S. The course of study is practical as well as theoretical, and aims to 

 give a young man, in one year, a comprehensive idea of the objects and methods of the forester. 

 In this the school is unique ; its success is an indication of Dr. Schenck's idea of the present 

 need in that direction. 



