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Biography

Name: Gifford Pinchot
Birth Date: August 4, 1865
Death Date: October 4, 1946
Place of Birth: Simsbury, Connecticut, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: conservationist, public official

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Biography of Gifford Pinchot
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Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), American conservationist and public official, was chiefly responsible for introducing scientific forestry to the United States. Gifford Pinchot was born in Simsbury, Conn., on Aug. 11, 1865, the scion of an old Huguenot...


Quotations
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Gifford Pinchot Quotes
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World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its...


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Gifford Pinchot (1865 – 1946) American Conservationist and Forester Summary
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Pinchot was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, to a prosperous business and industrial family, part of whose wealth came from timber holdings in several states. The Pinchots, like other lumber investors of their day, practiced clear-cutting on forests to...
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Society of American Foresters Summary
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Established in 1900 by Gifford Pinchot, considered to be America's first scientifically trained forester, the Society of American Foresters (SAF) is a scientific and educational organization representing the forestry profession in the United...
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Gifford Pinchot Information
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Gifford Pinchot, 1909, by Pirie MacDonald. At the time of this photo he was the first Chief of the United States Forest...


News and Journals
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Environmental History
The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot
10/01/2002: 595 words, approx. 2 pages
The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot. Edited by Harold K. Steen. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 2001. ix + 230 pp. Illustrations, names, index. $29.00. After serving as a punching bag for environmentalists and the acolytes of John Muir and Aldo Leopold for...
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American Forests
The Pinchot paper caper. (Gifford Pinchot's papers)
07/01/1989: 530 words, approx. 2 pages
Tom Harlan recently retired as Assistant Director of the U.S. Forest Service's Office of Public Affairs. Occupying more than a quartermile of shelf space, the collection will shed extra light on a special period in conservation history. Gifford Pinchot must have...
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AP Features
Mount Rainier National Park updates
5/14/2007: 343 words, approx. 1 pages
Six months after November floods ravaged Mount Rainier National Park, the Nisqually Road to the Paradise Visitor Center is open again.Visitor centers and services will be open at each of the corners of the park, but people who expect to be able to drive through...
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AP News
Furloughs loom in Pa. amid stalled talks
7/8/2007: 419 words, approx. 1 pages
Pennsylvanians will be unable to take a driver's license test, visit a state-run museum or place a casino bet starting Monday unless an 11th-hour breakthrough ends a budget stalemate that threatens a partial government shutdown.If Sunday ends without a compromise between Gov. Ed Rendell and...
 


 

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