Eminent Domain: B.L. Wiggins, Forestry, and the New South at Sewanee

Authors

Char Miller, Pomona CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Environmental Analysis (Pomona)

Publication Date

2004

Keywords

Benjamin Lawton Wiggins, forestry, University of South, eminent domain, Theodore Roosevelt, American Forest Congress

Abstract

The history of the University of the South and of its forest is intertwined. The health of the forest—and of the university—hung in the balance when Benjamin Wiggins took charge of both in 1893.

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Recommended Citation

Miller, Char. “Eminent Domain: B. L. Wiggins, Forestry, and the New South at Sewanee,” Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2004, 55-63.