Environmental Analysis (Pomona)
Grey Towers, U.S. Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, conservation, forestry, forest history
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation and the donation of the Pinchot family home Grey Towers to the U.S. Forest Service. In the following essay, historian and Pinchot biographer Char Miller discusses how the Institute is applying Gifford Pinchot’s principles to contemporary environmental issues. It is adapted from Seeking the Greatest Good: The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot, his new history of the Institute, and is published with kind permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
© 2013 Forest History Society
Miller, Char. Making Common Cause for Conservation, Forest History Today, Spring/Fall 2013, 1-11.