Gifford Pinchot and The Upward Battle of Conservation
Why does this Gifford Pinchot have a place in history. This man has had a huge impact in people 's life today and most don 't even know who he is because most school don 't teach about the man who defined conservation. A conservationist is a person who believes in using the land while maintaining the nature of it.
Motivation
Gifford Pinchot was a highly motivated man. He worked hard and achieved his goal of getting people to conserve the precious resources that we now have. His most well known achievement is the forest service(US Forest Service History) which manages responsibly the forest responsibly. Which was something that the us was in great desperation for because “Neither Yale nor
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Preparation
He went to school in france because there were no adequate forestry schools in the US he then came back and worked on trying to get people in the US to care about the environment (Gifford Pinchot early american conservationist). This created a determination to make people care about the trees. He used this determination to fuel him. He used connections to get a job in the vanderbilt forest where he helped
GIFFORD PINCHOT AND THE UPWARD BATTLE OF CONSERVATION 3 vanderbilts forest and learned everything he could from that forest this job would prepare him to go on to do greater. He was very passionate about forestry which made it easier for him to keep on the good fight.
Accomplishment
He was able to get the government and a lot of the people of the united states to care about conserving the environment. “He became a close friend and collaborator with Teddy roosevelt” (Gifford Pinchot: Early American Conservationist). This helped him get a job as the 4th Chief of the Division of Forestry. One of his most famous accomplishments is his “Famous battle with John Muir over the need for a dam in
California’s Hetch Hetchy Valley, within Yosemite National Park. Pinchot said