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Book SynopsisCollection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice.
Trade Review“Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings has resurrected a number of primary sources and offered them in the service of researchers and scholars. Pinchot’s unedited voice and opinions give a rare glimpse into one of America’s most significant figures. The collection and Char Miller’s commentary deserve and will no doubt receive a strong welcome from researchers of the early twentieth century and environmental history.”
—Jameson Karns Environmental History
“There are [no other books] that have better captured the full depth and complexity of Gifford Pinchot, which Miller has skillfully and respectfully afforded Pinchot an opportunity to convey in his own words.”
—V. Alaric Sample Journal of Forestry
“One might say that many of [Pinchot’s] opinions (spoken or written in the earlier parts of the 1900s) are contemporary and suited for analysis today. Highly recommended for libraries, schools, and personal libraries.”
—Al Holliday Pennsylvania Magazine
“A valuable contribution that will significantly enhance our knowledge and awareness of one of the nation’s leading intellectuals in land use. Char Miller has thoughtfully collected and organized the writings that capture the ideas and development of arguably the most important mind in the American conservation tradition.”
—Brian C. Black,author of Gettysburg Contested and Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History
“Despite Gifford Pinchot’s high-profile reputation as a founder of American conservation, most scholars have likely read few of his own writings. With these well-chosen documents from Pinchot's own hand, Char Miller provides a window onto Pinchot’s thinking about rivers, soils, minerals, agriculture, forestry, and public stewardship of natural resources during a time of sweeping change.”
—Mark Harvey,author of Wilderness Forever
“Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings provides great insight into the conservation movement, Theodore Roosevelt-style progressivism, and Pennsylvania politics.”
—J. Wesley Leckrone Commonwealth
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
Forests, Forestry and Foresters
Government Forestry Abroad, 1891
The Forests of Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park in Northern New York, 1893
A Plan to Save the Forests, 1895
In the Philippine Forests, 1903
Dear Forester, 1905
The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves, 1906
Speech to the Denver Lands Convention, 1907
The ABC of Conservation, 1909
Mr. Pinchot on Forest Fires, 1910
Roosevelt’s Part in Forestry, 1919
National or State Control of Forest Devastation, 1920
Letter to Foresters, 1930
Old Evils in New Clothes, 1937
War & Peace
North American Conservation Conference, 1909
England in War, 1915
Preparedness and Common Sense, 1916
Agriculture Policy in Wartime, 1917
A Forest Devastation Warning, 1925
Conservation as a Foundation for Permanent Peace, 1940
Governing the Keystone State
The Reclamation of Pennsylvania’s Desert, 1920
The Influence of Women in Politics, 1922
Inaugural Address, 1923
The Blazed Trail of Forest Depletion, 1923
Why I Believe in Enforcing Prohibition, 1923
Old Age Assistance in Pennsylvania, 1924
Politicians or the People? 1926
Inaugural Address, 1931
The Case for Federal Relief, 1932
Lifting Farmers Out of the Mud, 1932
Liquor Control in the United States: The State Store Plan, 1934
Pennsylvania State Forests, 1942
Water, Energy, and Power
What are we going to do about Coal in Alaska? 1911
Testimony on the Hetch Hetchy Dam, 1913
Muscle Shoals, 1921
Giant Power, 1924
Prevention First, 1927
The Power Monopoly: Its Makeup and Menace, 1928
The Long Struggle for Effective Water Power Legislation, 1945
Natural Moments
One Afternoon at Pelican Bay, 1897
Swordfishing, 1912
South Seas Reflections, 1930
Two’s Company, 1936
Time Like an Ever Rolling Stream, 1936
Acknowledgements
Index
