Gifford Pinchot

(noun)

The first chief of the U.S. Forest Service (1905–1910) and the 28th governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935).

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(noun)

The first chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the twenty-eighth governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935).

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(noun)

Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865–October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the twenty-eighth Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935).

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Examples of Gifford Pinchot in the following topics:

  • Ballinger and Pinchot

    • The Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy was a dispute between U.S.
    • Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger.
    • Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S.
    • Garfield and Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot.
    • By July 1909, Gifford Pinchot, who had been appointed by William McKinley to head the USDA Division of Forestry in 1898, was convinced that Ballinger intended to, "stop the conservation movement" started under President Roosevelt.

  • Roosevelt and Conservation

    • He worked with all of the major figures of the movement, especially his chief advisor on the matter, Gifford Pinchot.
    • Gifford Pinchot had been appointed by McKinley as chief of Division of Forestry in the Department of Agriculture.
    • Pinchot promoted private use (for a fee) under federal supervision.
    • While Muir wanted nature preserved for the sake of beauty, Roosevelt subscribed to Pinchot's formulation, "to make the forest produce the largest amount of whatever crop or service will be most useful, and keep on producing it for generation after generation of men and trees."

  • Legislative Leadership

    • He worked with all the major figures of the movement, especially his chief adviser on the matter, Gifford Pinchot,putting the issue at the forefront of the national agenda.
    • While Muir wanted nature preserved for the sake of beauty, Roosevelt subscribed to Pinchot's formulation, "to make the forest produce the largest amount of whatever crop or service will be most useful, and keep on producing it for generation after generation of men and trees. " In effect, Roosevelt's conservationism embodied the Progressive ideal of efficiency: to protect nature in order to render it serviceable to the needs and uses of man for successive generations.

  • The Transformation of the West

    • He worked closely with Gifford Pinchot and used the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 to promote federal construction of dams to irrigate small farms and placed 230 million acres under federal protection.

  • The Square Deal

    • He worked with all of the major figures of the movement, especially his chief advisor on the matter, Gifford Pinchot.