RECM 201 Gifford Pinchot

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RECM 201Gifford Pinchot
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• 1865 Gifford Pinchot was born at Simsbury,
  Connecticut, on August 11
• 1885 He prepared for college at Phillips Exeter
  Academy, and entered Yale University. Deciding
  to pursue forestry, and finding no such beast at
  Yale, he left for Europe after graduation to
  pursue his dream and enrolled in the Ecole
  Nationale Forestiere in Nancy, France
• 1892 Gifford Pinchot hired as the first American
  professional forester on the Biltmore estate of
  George Vanderbilt in Asheville, North Carolina
• 1898 Gifford Pinchot succeeds Bernhard Fernow as
  chief forester of US Division of Forestry and
  serves through 1910

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Gifford PinchotThe Biltmore Estate
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• 1900 Society of American Foresters is organized,
  with Gifford Pinchot as first President
• 1900 School of Forestry at Yale founded with
  grant from the Pinchot family
• 1910 President Taft fires Gifford Pinchot over
  dispute with secretary of the interior and names
  Henry S. Graves new chief of Forest Service
• 1910 Gifford Pinchot forms and finances National
  Conservation Association and serves as its
  president until 1925
• 1910-1911 Pinchot publicly lobbies for the Hetch
  Hetchy proposal
• 1914 Running on the Progressive platform,
  Pinchot became a candidate for an elective office
  for the first time with his bid to win a United
  States Senate seat in Pennsylvania. He lost.

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Gifford PinchotScientific Forester and
Conservationisthttp//www.pinchot.org/gt/cntrvrsy
.html

• As Gifford Pinchot said "The delight of the few
  men and women who would yearly go into the Hetch
  Hetchy Valley should not outweight the
  conservation policy, to take every part of the
  land and its resources and put it to that use in
  which it will best serve the most people."

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• On December 6, 1913, those on the side of the
  Hetch Hetchy went down to defeat. But hope still
  persisted sources indicated President Woodrow
  Wilson might veto the bill. Although supposedly
  recognizing the views of the preservationists,
  Wilson chose to go along with the dictates of his
  party and cabinet. On December 19, 1913, he
  signed the Raker Act, allowing the damming of the
  Hetch Hetchy Valley.

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Gifford PinchotScientific Forester and
Conservationisthttp//www.pinchot.org/gt/cntrvrsy
.html

• "One of the great mistakes of a long and misspent
  life is that I saw the Yosemite Valley only after
  the grand canyon had dulled my sense of wonder.
  Everything is tame after that."

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• 1923 - Pinchot elected Governor of Pennsylvania
• 1930 Pinchot elected to second term as Governor
  sets up work camps that became models for
  Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps
• 1936 Pinchot begins ten-year effort to complete
  his autobiography, Breaking New Ground
• 1941-45 . During World War II, he developed for
  the Navy a special fishing kit to help sailors
  adrift in lifeboats survive.
• 1946 On October 4, at the age of eighty-one,
  Gifford Pinchot died in New York City of
  leukemia.
• 1947 Breaking New Ground is published
  posthumously

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Gifford Pinchothttp//www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/faqs/

• On July 1, 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt
  established the Columbia National Forest (later
  renamed the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in
  June 1949) from the southern districts of the
  Mount Rainier National Forest.
• The headquarters was initially located in
  Portland, OR but was moved to Vancouver, WA in
  1927.

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Mt. St. Helens, the Gifford Pinchot National
Forest
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ptember2002/print.html
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Gifford Pinchot's Maxims to Guide Foresters in
Public Office

• A public official is there to serve the public
  and not to run them.
• Public support of acts affecting public rights is
  absolutely required.
• It is more trouble to consult the public than to
  ignore them, but that is what you are hired for.
• Find out in advance what the public will stand
  for. If it is right and they wont stand for it,
  postpone action and educate them.
• Use the press first, last, and all the time if
  you want to reach the public. Get rid of the
  attitude of personal arrogance or pride of
  attainment or superior knowledge.
• Dont try any sly or foxy politics, because a
  forester is not a politician.
• From Gifford Pinchot Lectures at the Yale Forest
  School (1910-1920).

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Gifford Pinchot's Maxims to Guide Foresters in
Public Office

• Learn tact simply by being absolutely honest and
  sincere, and by learning to recognize the point
  of view of the other man and meet him with
  arguments he will understand.
• Dont be afraid to give credit to someone else
  when it belongs to you not to do so is the sure
  mask of a weak man. But to do so is the hardest
  lesson to learn.
• Encourage others to do things you may accomplish
  many things through others that you cant get
  done on your single initiative.
• Dont be a knocker use persuasion rather than
  force, when possible. Plenty of knockers are to
  be found your job is to promote unity.
• Dont make enemies unnecessarily and for trivial
  reasons. If you are any good, you will make
  plenty of them on matters of straight honesty and
  public policy, and you need all the support you
  can get.
• From Gifford Pinchot Lectures at the Yale Forest
  School (1910-1920).

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