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Forest Supervisor Barrett informs Gifford Pinchot that it will not be possible to survey the area under consideration until summer due to the snow, but makes several recommendations about areas that the government should reserve as monuments. Physical examination of the area may give more precise coordinates of the areas to be reserved.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
1907-01-30
Forest Supervisor Barrett responds to Chief Forester Pinchot’s request for further information on the Lassen Peak region by describing further why he believes the points of interest near Lassen Peak should be particularly protected as National Monuments. Designating these areas as National Monuments will allow for greater selectivity than designating the entire region as a National Park, and Barrett believes this will be more palatable to people living in the region as it will not impede the use of the land for timber or grazing. Further, the area can be cared for by Forest Officers with little additional expense.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
1907-02-22
Forest Supervisor Louis A. Barrett has closely studied the Lassen Peak region, and recommends a number of points of interest to be set aside as National Monuments. None of the areas he recommends will interfere with the stock or lumber interests of the region, but are likely to be areas of significant tourist interest. If these areas are reserved, provision should be made to improve the roads and trails of the area for easier access.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
1907-01-05
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1913-08-13
Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt
A receipt for mail delivery from The Outlook to Gifford Pinchot.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-05-22
David Starr Jordan writes to Chief Forester Pinchot regarding the proposed removal of the Pinnacles National Monument from the National Forest of which it is currently a part. Jordan acknowledges that the Pinnacles cannot be harmed whether they are owned privately or publicly, but he believes that if they were privately owned, access to them would be restricted, which he opposes. While the forest around the Pinnacles is not of much value as a forest, there is value in having the lands under governmental protection, as it preserves the local flora and fauna, which would otherwise be threatened by the grazing of sheep.
Pinnacles National Park
1908-05-11
Stanford University President Jordan offers Chief Forester Pinchot his assessment of the Pinnacles region. In his opinion the Pinnacles have no value other than scenic purposes. There are a variety of rare plants, and the formations are somewhat peculiar, but not many fossils. Were the area to fall into private hands, there would not be much that they would be able to do to it. Possible injuries resulting from such an outcome might be restricted access to the region, and the possible destruction of timber, flowers, and deer in the region.
Pinnacles National Park
1905-02-22
President Roosevelt introduces James Andrew Drain, president of the National Rifle Association. Drain has done a great deal to promote rifle shooting in the National Guard and with the public.
1909-01-02
Theodore Roosevelt wants to know if Gifford Pinchot would object if Roosevelt wrote to Henry Wallace about a misunderstanding of the word “upright,” which Roosevelt used in a speech regarding William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-12-30
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary responds to Gifford Pinchot, conveying that Senator William Borah is taking care of the stated matter and will respond to Senator Root.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-07-15
President Roosevelt has appointed Gifford Pinchot to the Board of Scientific Surveys that will estimate the cost of a comprehensive scientific survey of the Philippine Islands.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-09
Vice President Roosevelt asks Gifford Pinchot if there is an opportunity for the son of Jacob A. Riis to go on “some government trip” out West as a handyman. The boy does not require “any but the smallest wages,” and would like the chance to go on an outdoor government trip.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-04-16
At the request of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary encloses a letter from Harry Cullyford.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-31
President Roosevelt will instruct Secretary of War William H. Taft to go to Idaho to speak in support of Governor Frank Robert Gooding against “those dynamiters and thugs” as he seeks reelection.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-15
George B. Cortelyou informs Gifford Pinchot that President Roosevelt is pleased to send the enclosed letter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-27
Gifford Pinchot is advised to look at Theodore Roosevelt’s editorials in the Kansas City Star and Metropolitan Magazine about the League of Nations. Roosevelt was in favor of the League as an addition, rather than a substitute, for the prepared military strength of the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1919-01-21
Theodore Roosevelt believes he should have taken Gifford Pinchot’s suggestion, but it is too late for this article.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-12-17
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary asks Gifford Pinchot to read and give feedback to Roosevelt on his next article for Metropolitan Magazine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-12-09
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Gifford Pinchot for the letter and the telegram and hopes to see him soon. Roosevelt will try to prepare the kind of editorial that Pinchot mentioned.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-11-19
Theodore Roosevelt points out that the Socialist papers are the central papers backing the Non-Partisan League. Roosevelt has been dealing with the Non-Partisan League based on the people he trusts in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Roosevelt believes the League is misleading farmers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-10-19