Peeling Back The Bark
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7/31/1865: Austin Cary, the Father of Southern Forestry, Born
By James Lewis on July 31, 2015Austin Cary, one of the great unsung heroes of American forestry, was born this date in 1865 in East Machias, Maine. A Yankee through and through, he found professional success in the South, eventually becoming known as the “Father of Southern Forestry.” In 1961, twenty-five years after Cary’s passing, his biographer Roy R. White wrote…
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"How Could We Lose This Forest?" – Searching for the DAR Memorial Forest
By James Lewis on July 24, 2015“How could we lose this forest?” It’s a history mystery we’d been working on for more than two weeks when Molly Tartt, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution in western North Carolina, asked me that in an email. Indeed, how does a 50-acre forest vanish from maps and memory? No one knows where the forest…
