That’s a very good article. It makes me think about landscaping/landscape architecture in ways I hadn’t before.
He is best-known for his design of New York’s Central Park, but he is truly the father of the science of forestry management.
When George Vanderbilt purchased the 125,000 acres that would ultimately be the Biltmore estate, that land had been almost completely clear cut from the timber industry. Virtually every tree you see in that area south of Asheville was planted by Olmsted.