Gifford Pinchot

[fencesitter]

Going to Gifford Pinchot State Park in PA, I decided to look up who he was. Republican and Progressive in the same sentence, what happened to the Republican party?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot

"Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946) was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905–1910) and the Governor of Pennsylvania (1923–1927, 1931–1935). He was a Republican and Progressive.

Pinchot is known for reforming the management and development of forests in the United States and for advocating the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man." Pinchot coined the term conservation ethic as applied to natural resources."

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"Gifford Pinchot's father, James, had made a great fortune from lumbering and land speculation but regretted the damage his work had done to the land. He made conservation a family affair and decided that Gifford would become a forester. He endowed the Yale School of Forestry in 1900, and he turned Grey Towers, the family estate at Milford, Pennsylvania, into a "nursery" for the American forestry movement."

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1. There's a National Forest named for him in Washington State.

Thanks for telling us more about this remarkable man.