Pisgah National Forest Grace And Style Of The Stone Bridge
by Carol Montoya
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Pisgah National Forest Grace And Style Of The Stone Bridge
Artist
Carol Montoya
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Photograph - Photography
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Pisgah National Forest grace and style of the stone bridges are along Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway US Highway 276. As you travel experiencing beautiful mountain scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina you will pass over several bridges taking you to, and by several well known waterfalls!
Along the Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway, the "American forestry has roots in what is now the Pisgah National Forest. Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway (Biltmore Forest School), located in the southern part of the forest, was the site of the first school of forestry in the United States. It operated during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The school was opened and operated at the direction of George Washington Vanderbilt II, builder of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. The Forestry Education offered at Biltmore was taught by Carl Schenk. A native German Schenk was referred to Vanderbilt when Gifford Pinchot resigned to operate the newly formed Division of Forestry. The Cradle of Forestry and the Biltmore Estate played a major role in the birth of the U.S. Forest Service. Today these lands are part of an educational and recreational area in Pisgah National Forest."
The Forest Heritage National Scenic Byway is also known as "Cooperhead Loop," which is very popular motorcycle drive with it's many twists and curves.
Pisgah National Forest covers 512,758 acres surrounds and encompassing 12 counties in western North Carolina. They are Transylvania, McDowell, Haywood, Madison, Caldwell, Burke, Yancey, Buncombe, Avery, Mitchell, Henderson, and Watauga counties which is contains totally in North Carolina.
"The Pisgah National Forest was established in 1916, one of the first national forests in the eastern United States. The new preserve included approximately 86,700 acres that had been part of the Biltmore Estate, but were sold to the federal government in 1914 by Edith Vanderbilt. Some of the forest tracts were among the first purchases by the Forest Service under the Weeks Act of 1911. While national forests had already been created in the western United States, the Weeks Act provided the authority required to create national forests in the east as well."
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August 23rd, 2016
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