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Notes on Gifford Pinchot as a Writer

Notes on Gifford Pinchot as a Writer

Continuing a conversation about Gifford Pinchot that has extended over several issues of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Barry W. Walsh comments on Pinchot’s writing career, which extended over five decades. While Pinchot occasionally employed researchers and writers to help him, he wrote many of his pieces entirely by himself, and even provided assistance to Theodore Roosevelt in drafting some speeches.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1988

Gifford Pinchot, conservationist

Gifford Pinchot, conservationist

Barry W. Walsh provides an overview of the career of America’s first and most famous forester, Gifford Pinchot. Walsh emphasizes Pinchot’s work in government to promote forest conservation, and she examines his work with President Theodore Roosevelt and his dismissal under President William Howard Taft. Walsh also examines Pinchot’s bitter quarrel with John Muir over building a dam in the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park, and she notes his advising President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the founding of the Yale Forest School. A photograph of Pinchot appears in the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1987