Tagged: National Forest

Environment
12:07 pm
Mon February 28, 2011

Forestry Law Created in NC Turns 100

Credit usda.gov
Pisgah National Forest

A forestry law pushed by civic and business leaders in Asheville one hundred years ago is being celebrated today. The Weeks Act allowed the federal government to purchase private land for the establishment of National Forests. sg

James Lewis is a historian at The Forest History Society. He says what started in Asheville has grown to almost 20 million acres nationwide. 

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