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28. Feb. 2015 · Gifford Pinchot was born in 1865 to a family of French descent that made its fortune from mining in the forests of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Yale in 1889 and went to Europe to study forestry for 13 months under the advice of his father with the intention of making forestry his profession – something unheard at the time in the United States.
As a child, Gifford Pinchot was sent to a series of prominent schools, first attending boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy and then entering Yale University. On his father’s recommendation, Pinchot then traveled to France to train at the French National School of Forestry. When he returned to the United States, he applied the skills he learned abroad to growing the forestry movement ...
Gifford Pinchot was one of America's leading advocates of environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century. Born into wealth and endowed with imagination and a love of nature, he shared his money, possessions and intellect to further the causes of the common good. It was at Grey Towers that James Pinchot first encouraged his son to explore the profession of forestry. But such ...
Gifford Pinchot (11 août 1865, Simsbury - 4 octobre 1946), est un homme politique américain chef de file du mouvement conservationniste, aspirant à la protection de la nature pour les générations à venir. Biographie. Fils de James ...
Gifford Pinchot (1865 – 1946)American conservationist and forester. Pinchot was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, to a prosperous business and industrial family, part of whose wealth came from timber holdings in several states. The Pinchots, like other lumber investors of their day, practiced clear-cutting on forests to maximize their profits ...
Gifford Pinchot. Credit: Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-hec-21098) Pinchot graduated from Yale in 1889 and studied at the National Forestry School in Nancy, France, and in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
4th Chief of the Division of Forestry, 1898-1901; 1st Chief of Bureau of Forestry, 1901-1905; and 1st Chief of the Forest Service, 1905-1910. Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) Gifford Pinchot was born on August 11, 1865, in Simsbury, Connecticut. His family were wealthy merchants, politicians, and landowners. As a young boy, Pinchot spent his free ...
