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Gifford Pinchot:

Selected Writings
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Collection 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.


Contents

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


Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings provides great insight into the conservation movement, Theodore Roosevelt-style progressivism, and Pennsylvania politics.”

—J. Wesley Leckrone, Commonwealth

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