[PDF] Gifford Pinchot And The First Foresters eBook

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1610910745

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Gifford Pinchot is known primarily for his work as first chief of the U. S. Forest Service and for his argument that resources should be used to provide the "greatest good for the greatest number of people." But Pinchot was a more complicated figure than has generally been recognized, and more than half a century after his death, he continues to provoke controversy. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism, the first new biography in more than three decades, offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of the famed conservationist and Progressive politician. In addition to considering Gifford Pinchot's role in the environmental movement, historian Char Miller sets forth an engaging description and analysis of the man -- his character, passions, and personality -- and the larger world through which he moved. Char Miller begins by describing Pinchot's early years and the often overlooked influence of his family and their aspirations for him. He examines Gifford Pinchot's post-graduate education in France and his ensuing efforts in promoting the profession of forestry in the United States and in establishing and running the Forest Service. While Pinchot's twelve years as chief forester (1898-1910) are the ones most historians and biographers focus on, Char Miller also offers an extensive examination of Pinchot's post-federal career as head of The National Conservation Association and as two-term governor of Pennsylvania. In addition, he looks at Pinchot's marriage to feminist Cornelia Bryce and discusses her role in Pinchot's political radicalization throughout the 1920s and 1930s. An epilogue explores Gifford Pinchot's final years and writings. Char Miller offers a provocative reconsideration of key events in Pinchot's life, including his relationship with friend and mentor John Muir and their famous disagreement over damming Hetch Hetchy Valley. The author brings together insights from cultural and social history and recently discovered primary sources to support a new interpretation of Pinchot -- whose activism not only helped define environmental politics in early twentieth century America but remains strikingly relevant today.

Author : Jeffrey H. Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0811771679

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The story of how America’s public lands—our city parks, national forests, and wilderness areas—came into being can be traced to a few conservation pioneers and proteges who shaped policy and advocated for open spaces. Some, like Frederick Law Olmsted and Gifford Pinchot, are well known, while others have never been given their due. Jeffrey Ryan covers the nearly century-long period between 1865 (when Olmsted contributed to the creation of Yosemite as a park and created its management plan) to the signing of the Wilderness Act of 1964. Olmsted influenced Pinchot, who became the first head of the National Forest Service, and in turn, Pinchot hired the foresters who became the founders of The Wilderness Society and creators of the Wilderness Act itself. This history emphasizes the cast of characters—among them Theodore Roosevelt, Bob Marshall, Benton MacKaye, Aldo Leopold, and Howard Zahniser—and provides context for their decisions and the political and economic factors that contributed to the triumphs and pitfalls in the quest to protect public lands. In researching the book, Ryan traveled to the places where these crusaders lived, worked, and were inspired to take up the cause to make public lands accessible to all.

Author : Bibi Gaston
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780997216202

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The First class of American Forest Rangers under Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot tell of hardship, confrontations with cattlemen, miners, loggers, and the challenge of turning confrontations into cooperation and gratitude. It was a life of service for which they were grateful, a chance to live a meaningful life in a time of struggle.

Author : Gifford Pinchot
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : 9780271078410

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Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.

Author : Harold T. Pinkett
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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The legend that America was a land of unlimited natural wealth began in Columbus' time. Americans have since treated natural resources as if they were infinite, and have destroyed forest land at will. Today growing numbers of active conservationists are challenging the motive of commercial developers who seek to appropriate more forests. Harold Pinkett here describes and appraises the work of Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), the man who initiated the challenge. Pinchott was the foremost American apostle of conservation, the first professionally trained American forester, and the chief agent in the introduction of scientific forestry into the woodlands of the United States. -- Jacket.

Author : Elers Koch
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496217268

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Elers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot, he helped establish the boundaries of most of our national forests in the West, designed new fire-control strategies and equipment, and served during the formative years of the agency. Forty Years a Forester, Koch’s entertaining and illuminating memoir, reveals one remarkable man’s contributions to the incipient science of forest management and his role in building the human relationships and policies that helped make the U.S. Forest Service, prior to World War II, the most respected bureau in the federal government. This new, fully annotated edition of Koch’s memoir offers an unparalleled look at the Forest Service’s formative ambitions to regulate the national forests and grasslands and reminds us of the principled commitment that Koch and his peers exemplified as they built the national forest system and nurtured the essential conservation ethic that continues to guide our use of the public lands.