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Vanderbilt's Pisgah Forest A Vast North Carolina Preserve
The piece surveys George W. Vanderbilt's Pisgah Forest in Transylvania County North Carolina a 100000 acre private preserve. It details the park surrounding Mt Pisgah the mileage of trails wagon roads and shooting paths while noting ranger duties boundary fences and protection of trout streams large game and prey species with limited kills. It mentions Dr Schenck leading forestry study at Bilmore and the Arboretum there and laments over exploitation and the need for conservation.
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George W. Vanderbilt
Mt. Pisgah
Blue Ridge
Smoky Mountains
Pisgah Forest
America
Vanderbilt
Pisgali Forest
Dr. Schenck
Gifford Pinchot
United States
Bilmore
Visgah Forest
Schenck
Pacific Slope