Title Slide

Summary Slide

Map of the Cumberland Plateau

The Sewanee Domain

Soils and Rainfall

Forest Cover Types

Pre-1800

Native Americans on the Plateau

1820 The Beginnings

University Founding

Sewanee Mining Company

University Growth

The Beginnings of Forest Management

"Conservation Forestry" Movement

Gifford Pinchot

Sewanee's First Forest Management Plan

Recommendations for Forest Management

Sewanee's First Foresters

Logging

1901-1910 Management Initiated

"Conservative Lumbering"

Establishment of a Forestry School

The First Managed Harvest

1911-1950

Fire strikes the Domain

1939 Management Plan

Charles E. Cheston

Former Forestry Professors

1953 Management Plan

Water shortages remedies

1966 Managemant Plan

Secondary reservoirs created

USFS and Sewanee

Research at the Sewanee Silviculture Lab

Snowden Forestry Building

1979 Land Use Plan

Water and Sewage Management

Pine Harvests in the 1990's

Forestry Education in the 1990's

Forest Recreation on the Domain

The Domain 2020 Land Use Study

Recent Changes in Sewanee's Forests

The Impact of Deer on the Domain

Land Use In and Around the Domain

2002 Forest Management Plan

Summary

History of Domain Inventory and Harvesting

Income Generated from Timber Management

Forest Management Priorities-Multiple Use

The Domain