Rocking the Cradle: Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of American Forestry

Authors

Char Miller, Pomona CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Department

Environmental Analysis (Pomona)

Publication Date

1992

Keywords

history of forestry, centennial celebration, Deitrich Brandis, Bernhard Fernow, Frederick Law Olmsted

Abstract

The celebration of scientific forestry's centennial in 1992 may be late. It was neither first introduced on George Vanderbilt's Biltmore estate in 1892, nor was its implementation there by Gifford Pinchot an unqualified success.

Comments

Originally published in Robert Thatcher and Thomas McLintock, eds., 100 Years of Forestry..

Rights Information

© 1992 Society of American Foresters

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Recommended Citation

Miller, Char. “Rocking the Cradle: Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of American Forestry,” in Robert Thatcher and Thomas McLintock, eds., 100 Years of Forestry, (Bethesda: Society of American Foresters, 1992), 69-76.