Library Record
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Title |
Breaking New Ground |
Catalog Number |
2018.006.012 |
Object Name |
Book |
Summary |
Breaking New Ground Reprinted 1987 >> This posthumously published autobiography of Gifford Pinchot, founder and first chief of the Forest Service. It is a story of how conservation came to America than his own personal story except as he was a part of the movement. The years span from 1885 when Pinchot chose forestry as a vocation and a cause, after leaving Yale, to his defeat and the defeat of his policies under a weak Taft presidency. The first American to make this a profession, he covers, in the text, and in considerable detail, his first field trips, his consultant work for first private lands, then under T. R. Roosevelt, public lands; the creation of the Forest Commission and of vast reserves; the policies and practices applied to government lands; the development of the new science and its spread overseas. >> Intrduction by GeorgeT. Frampton, Jr. >> Originally published in 1947 |
Author |
Pinchot, Gifford |
Published Date |
1987 |
Physical Description |
Hardcover: 6.0" X 8.75", 522 pages with book jacket |
People |
Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Cornelia |
Subjects |
Forest Service History Conservation Society of American Foresters |
Search Terms |
Heritage Program Forest History Forest Service Professional Societies |
Publisher |
Island Press |
Catalog date |
2019-07-25 |
Collection |
Haines, Richard |
Number of images |
0 |