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In 1891 there was not a single acre of forest under forestry anywhere in the United States. Gifford Pinchot, the first American-born forester, was brought by George Vanderbilt to manage Biltmore Forest in February 1892, and his work there, which began on February 3, 1892, made Biltmore Forest the beginning of practical forestry in America.
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