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Breaking new ground / Gifford Pinchot.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
- Series:
- Conservation classics
- Conservation classics.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
- Pinchot, Gifford.
- Politicians--United States--Biography.
- Politicians.
- United States.
- Conservationists--United States--Biography.
- Conservationists.
- Conservation of natural resources--United States--History.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 522 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1987]
- Summary:
- Vigorous, colorful, bold and highly personal, Breaking New Ground is the autobiography of Gifford Pinchot, founder and first chief of the Forest Service. He tells a fascinating tale of his efforts, under President Theodore Roosevelt, to wrest the forests from economic special interests and to bring them under management for multiple- and long-range use. His philosophy of "the greatest good for the greatest number over the longest time" has become the foundation upon which this country's conservation policy is based.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1947.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0933280505 :
- 0933280424
- OCLC:
- 16833483
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