{"product_id":"gifford-pinchot-9780271078427","title":"Gifford Pinchot","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollection 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGifford Pinchot: Selected Writings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jameson Karns \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—V. Alaric Sample \u003ci\u003eJournal of Forestry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Al Holliday \u003ci\u003ePennsylvania Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Brian C. Black,author of \u003ci\u003eGettysburg Contested\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCrude Reality: Petroleum in World History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Mark Harvey,author of \u003ci\u003eWilderness Forever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGifford Pinchot: Selected Writings \u003c\/i\u003eprovides great insight into the conservation movement, Theodore Roosevelt-style progressivism, and Pennsylvania politics.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—J. Wesley Leckrone \u003ci\u003eCommonwealth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForests, Forestry and Foresters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernment Forestry Abroad, 1891\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Forests of Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park in Northern New York, 1893\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Plan to Save the Forests, 1895\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Philippine Forests, 1903\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDear Forester, 1905\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves, 1906\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeech to the Denver Lands Convention, 1907\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ABC of Conservation, 1909\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Pinchot on Forest Fires, 1910\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoosevelt’s Part in Forestry, 1919\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational or State Control of Forest Devastation, 1920\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLetter to Foresters, 1930\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOld Evils in New Clothes, 1937\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWar \u0026amp; Peace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorth American Conservation Conference, 1909\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland in War, 1915\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreparedness and Common Sense, 1916\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgriculture Policy in Wartime, 1917\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Forest Devastation Warning, 1925\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConservation as a Foundation for Permanent Peace, 1940\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoverning the Keystone State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Reclamation of Pennsylvania’s Desert, 1920\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Influence of Women in Politics, 1922\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInaugural Address, 1923\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Blazed Trail of Forest Depletion, 1923\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy I Believe in Enforcing Prohibition, 1923\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOld Age Assistance in Pennsylvania, 1924\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoliticians or the People? 1926\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInaugural Address, 1931\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Case for Federal Relief, 1932\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifting Farmers Out of the Mud, 1932\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiquor Control in the United States: The State Store Plan, 1934\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePennsylvania State Forests, 1942\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWater, Energy, and Power\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are we going to do about Coal in Alaska? 1911\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTestimony on the Hetch Hetchy Dam, 1913 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuscle Shoals, 1921\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiant Power, 1924\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrevention First, 1927\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Power Monopoly: Its Makeup and Menace, 1928\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Long Struggle for Effective Water Power Legislation, 1945\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatural Moments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne Afternoon at Pelican Bay, 1897\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwordfishing, 1912\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouth Seas Reflections, 1930\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo’s Company, 1936\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime Like an Ever Rolling Stream, 1936\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400797659479,"sku":"9780271078427","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gifford-pinchot-9780271078427","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}