Resident Instruction 



During the Lumbering Period 

 (1880 to 1930) 



The Early Programs— In 1898. the 

 first two forestry schools in 

 America opened for business. One 

 of these was in the South — the 

 Biltmore Forest School located on 

 George Vanderbilt's Biltmore 

 Estate near Asheville. NC. 



Biltmore offered a 1-year "highly 

 practical but professional*' training 

 program leading to a "Bachelor of 

 Forestry" degree to male high- 

 school graduates 20 years of age 

 and older with some lumbering 

 experience. With 2 additional years 

 of practical forest work, the 

 graduate qualified for a second 

 degree. "Forest Engineer*' (Dana 

 and Johnson 1963. Jolley 1971). 



Biltmore opened in 1898 and 

 closed because of low enrollment 

 in 1913. During this period, 

 approximately 300 graduated, and 

 more than half of them went into 

 forestry after graduation. Most 

 went to work for public forestry 

 agencies, although the purpose of 

 the program in the eyes of the 

 founder and director. Carl 

 Schenck. was to prepare men for 

 forestry careers in industry 

 (Tainter and Cool n.d.. post 1974: 

 Clepper 1971). 



In 1906 the University of Georgia 

 established the second southern 

 forestry program. The professional 

 forestry teaching program started 

 in 1909 and produced its first 



graduate in 1912. From then 

 through 1924. the program 

 operated at a low level, producing 

 only eight graduates. 



Although a "concentration in 

 logging engineering" was offered 

 beginning in 1913 to 1915. a 1935 

 report to the Society of American 

 Foresters listed only a single 

 undergraduate 4-year curriculum in 

 forestry leading to a bachelor of 

 science in forestry degree. 



Through 1934. Georgia's program 

 had graduated a total of 71 . with 67 

 reported as entering the forestry 

 field. The first master's degree was 

 awarded in 1932 (Chapman 1935). 



Louisiana State University 

 established a curriculum leading to 

 the bachelor of science in forestry 

 degree in 1924. The first such 

 degree was awarded in 1926 to a 

 2-year transfer student. A 

 Department of Forestry in the 

 College of Agriculture was 

 established in that same year. 

 Through 1934. the Department 

 graduated 41 in the single 

 curriculum offered — "technical 

 forestry." Of these 41, 35 entered 

 forestry after graduation (Blackwell 

 and Burns 1963. Chapman 1935). 



The Department of Forestry in the 

 School of Agriculture of North 

 Carolina State College of 

 Agriculture and Engineering (now 

 North Carolina State University) 

 was founded in 1929. It hit the 

 ground running because of an 



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