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Gifford Pinchot was a environmentalist. Gifford was born in 1865 in the town of Simsbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale university in 1889. he studies the for a year at the French National Forestry School in postgraduate. Then he came back to shape the national forest policy. His family had been in the lumber business and had a estate in Pennsylvanian that Gifford turned into a nursery for the forest movement. Then Gifford help make new ways to train the college foresters on how to suit the American condition. He was the Chief of the United states Forest Service for 1905-1910. He was also the 28th Governor of Pennsylvanian from (1923-1927) and (1931-1935). the major accomplishment of his career was making plans for the national forests to be cut down by small privet owners so that the forest would still thrive.

The major problem came when President Taft was elected because Taft let Gifford go for specking out against his and Richard Ballinger polices. This rivalry split the republican party and formed the Progressive Party.The great fire of 1910 lead to the making of a forest fire service. the fires were controlled so the timber could be saved for the government to cut down. this enraged Gifford. This went against what Gifford and Roosevelt thought out. the timber wall to be cut by small family services not large companies. On a trip out west Gifford saw whole mountain sides ride of trees. "So this is what saving the trees was all about."-Gifford

Gifford started the National Conservation Association, were he lead from 1910-1925. This Association help regulate the national forest and the lumber that was cut. Also helped protect the land and save the forest before they were gone.Gifford was a great leader in the protection of the national forest. Gifford Pinchot had a national forest named in his honor in Washington state, as well a state park in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.