Volume 23 Issue 2 Spring 2019
The Foundations for Practical Conservation
Gifford Pinchot, Simsbury native, is well known as a two-term Governor of Pennsylvania and the first chief of the U.S Forest Service. Less known is his generosity and selflessness when it came to public service. His parents, James and Mary Pinchot, founded the Yale School of Forestry in New Haven with a gift of $100,000 in 1900, a gift that would provide the practical and philosophical foundations for professional forestry in America.
