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Article: Pinchot, Gifford 1865-1946
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PINCHOT, GIFFORD 1865-1946
Head of the forestry division, us. department of agriculture, 1898-1901
Head of the bureau of forestry, 1901-1905
Head of the u.s. forest service, 1905-1910
A Valued Adviser
The most influential of the small group of close friends who advised President Theodore Roosevelt on conservation issues, Gifford Pinchot made conservation one of the leading causes of the Progressive Era. In the course of his career he slowly expanded the nation's concept of conservation from protection of forest resources to the conservation of human society itself.
Background
Born on 11 August 1865 at his maternal grandfather's summer home in Simsbury, Connecticut, Gifford Pinchot, the ...