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I. Gifford Pinchot and the Politics of "Conservationism" Born into an East Coast family of great wealth and privilege, Gifford Pinchot accepted his father's suggestion to pursue a career in forestry. The decision was surely eased by the fact that he had little need to con-cern himself with paying the bills.2 This concern would otherwise have 1.
Public Debates of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot 763. The supply of timber seemed inexhaustible to most lumbermen, who had little in the 20 years since Pinchot's father had denuded the mountainsides ern Pennsylvania. "They regarded forest devastation as normal and second. a delusion of fools," Pinchot wrote.
8 de mar. de 2007 · American Wilderness: A New History. American Wilderness. : Michael Lewis. Oxford University Press, Mar 8, 2007 - History - 304 pages. This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present.
The Wilderness Idea explores this important chapter in American environmental policy, using the lives of John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club, and Gifford Pinchot the first chief of the U.S ...
In this documentary, the debate over the damming and flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is examined by looking at the two most notable faces of the debate, United States Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot, and celebrated Scottish-American naturalist John Muir, two friends and notable conservationists who found themselves in complete opposition with one another in ...
3This article is a contribution to the debate over the ideology of early 20th-century utilitarian conservationists. It focuses on Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the US Forest Service and the most influential member of the founding generation of utilitarian conservation in the US. The article looks at how he viewed the National Parks and ...
1 de dic. de 1997 · Later interpreters have usually described Gifford Pinchot and John Muir as defining two different conceptions of nature: "conservationism" and "preservationism." While the difference between these conceptions is significant, it plays a much less central role in guiding practical proposals than is typically assumed. This article highlights the independent influence and importance of contrasting ...
