OBJECTIVE FORESTRY

Detailed explanation-1: -Finally, on July 1, 1905, the Bureau of Forestry became the Forest Service, with Gifford Pinchot as its first Chief.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though most Americans today know little about Gifford Pinchot and his launching of the conservation movement, his legacy endures. Most of our national forests exist largely because of his persistence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gifford Pinchot, America’s first professionally trained forester rose to national prominence as a conservationist and political progressive under the patronage of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Detailed explanation-4: -On this trip were Gifford Pinchot, a young forester who would eventually become the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, and John Muir, the most famous naturalist in American history. The two have come to embody the conflicting philosophies at the heart of the American public land system: preservation vs.