A locally produced documentary about the introduction of forestry in America is scheduled to hit the silver screen this weekend at Biltmore Estate. The one-hour film, First in Forestry, tells the story of Carl Schenck and the Biltmore Forest School, the first forestry school in the country.
“It’s the story of how American forestry started, and the forces that were pushing that along,” says Paul Bonesteel, director.
Bonesteel Films, an Asheville production company, wrote and directed the film for the Forest History Society, a nonprofit library and archive in Durham.
“All the actors and almost all of the crew are local, and that’s a huge part of what we love about Asheville,” Bonesteel says. “There are a lot of talented people in the region who are very professional about what they do, and so we want to provide as much work as we can, and share the project as much as possible.”
Filmed during the summer of 2014, Bonesteel says the crew returned to many of the original sites where Schenck took the first forestry students in the nation.
From Mountain Xpress: https://mountainx.com/news/local-documentary-traces-origins-of-u-s-forestry-in-wnc-screens-this-weekend/