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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480032403321

Autore

Pinchot Gifford

Titolo

Gifford Pinchot : selected writings / / edited by Char Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-271-07984-3

0-271-07986-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

634.909748

Soggetti

Forests and forestry

Electronic books.

Pennsylvania Politics and government 1865-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART 1: FORESTS, FORESTRY, AND FORESTERS -- Government Forestry Abroad -- Th e Forests of Ne- Ha- Sa- Ne Park in Northern New York -- A Plan to Save the Forests -- In the Philippine Forests -- Dear Forester -- The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves -- Speech to the Denver Public Lands Convention -- The ABC of Conservation -- Mr. Pinchot on Forest Fires -- Roosevelt’s Part in Forestry -- National or State Control of Forest Devastation -- A Letter to Foresters -- Old Evils in New Clothes -- PART 2: WAR AND PEACE -- Declaration of Principles: North American Conservation Conference -- England in War -- Preparedness and Common Sense -- An Agricultural Policy for the United States in War Time -- A Forest Devastation Warning -- Conservation as a Foundation for Permanent Peace -- PART 3: GOVERNING THE KEYSTONE STATE -- The Reclamation of Pennsylvania’s Desert -- The Influence of Women in Politics -- Inaugural Address -- The Blazed Trail of Forest Depletion -- Why I Believe in Enforcing the Prohibition Laws -- Old Age Assistance in Pennsylvania: Righting the Neglects of Yesterday -- Politicians or the People? -- Inaugural Address -- The Case for Federal Relief -- Lifting the Farmers Out of the Mud -- Liquor Control in the United States: The



State Store Plan -- The Pennsylvania State Forests -- PART 4 : WATER, ENERGY, AND POWER -- What Shall We Do with the Coal in Alaska? -- Testimony on the Hetch Hetchy Dam to the House Committee on Public Lands -- Muscle Shoals -- Giant Power -- Prevention First -- The Power Monopoly: Its Make- Up and Its Menace -- The Long Struggle for Effective Federal Water Power Legislation -- PART 5 : NATURAL ENGAGEMENTS -- One Afternoon at Pelican Bay -- Swordfishing -- South Seas Reflections -- Two’s Company -- Time Like an Ever Rolling Stream -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"Collection of essays by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania. The social, political, and scientific insights in these essays anticipate many contemporary environmental-policy dilemmas and the growing demand for environmental justice"--Provided by publisher.