Bent Creek Campus of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station (Boundary Decrease)

Bent Creek Campus of the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station is a historic district southwest of Asheville, North Carolina, associated with Forest Service research during 1925-1942. This amendment shrinks the district by roughly 15 acres, from about 35 acres to about 20. The excluded land lay on the north bank of Bent Creek and had once held a white pine experimental plot, an arboretum, an archery practice ground and a base camp for unemployed men who cut firewood. Those uses had largely ended by the close of the period of significance, and the ground has since returned to mixed forest. Investigators found no visible above-ground traces of the earlier activities. Because the area had lost its historic integrity, it was removed. None of the district's counted resources were affected. The new southern boundary follows a modern fence and an existing National Park Service boundary, and the remaining forest still frames the campus.