Bowen Forest

Bowen Forest in Mount Holly, Vermont, United States, is a component of the Yale Forests system. This system also includes the 7,900 acres (32 km²) Yale-Myers Forest located in the towns of Union, Ash-ford, East-ford, and Woodstock, Connecticut, and the 1,100 acres (4.5 km²) Yale-Tourney Forest in the towns of Swanzey, New Hampshire and Keene, New Hampshire.^[1] Bowen Forest is 462 acres (1.87 km²) in size, and like the other Yale Forests, is owned by Yale University and administered by the Yale School of the Environment.^[2] It was given to the university in 1922 by Elma S. Bowen in honor of her son, Joseph Brown Bowen, a 1917 graduate of the School of Forestry who was killed in France during World War I.^[3]

References[edit]

^ "The School Forests: Locations". Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Yale University. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
^ "The School Forests: Management". Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Yale University. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
^ Nettleton, George Henry (1925). Yale in the World War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 274.

43°26′38″N 72°48′14″W / 43.444°N 72.804°W / 43.444; -72.804

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[1] "The School Forests: Locations". Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Yale University. Archived from the original on July 7, 2015. Retrieved September 16, 2015.

[2] "The School Forests: Management". Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Yale University. Retrieved September 16, 2015.

[3] Nettleton, George Henry (1925). Yale in the World War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 274.

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