President John F. Kennedy officially dedicated the Pinchot
Institute for Conservation Studies on September 24, 1963 to further
the legacy and activism of conservationist Gifford Pinchot
(1865-1946). Pinchot was the first chief of the United States
Forest Service, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. During his
five-year term, he more than tripled the national forest reserves
to 172 million acres. A pioneer in his field, Pinchot is widely
regarded as one of the architects of American conservation and an
adamant steward of natural resources for future generations.
Author Char Miller highlights many of the important contributions
of the Pinchot Institute through its first fifty years of
operation. As a union of the United States Forest Service and the
Conservation Foundation, a private New York-based think tank, the
institute was created to formulate policy and develop conservation
education programs. Miller chronicles the institution's founding, a
donation of the Pinchot family, at its Grey Towers estate in
Milford, Pennsylvania. He views the contributions of Pinchot family
members, from the institute's initial conception by Pinchot's son,
Gifford Bryce Pinchot, through the family's ongoing participation
in current conservation programming. Miller describes the
institute's unique fusion of policy makers, scientists,
politicians, and activists to increase our understanding of and
responses to urban and rural forestry, water quality, soil erosion,
air pollution, endangered species, land management and planning,
and hydraulic franking.
Miller explores such innovative programs as Common Waters, which
works to protect the local Delaware River Basin as a drinking water
source for millions; EcoMadera, which trains the residents of
Cristobal Colon in Ecuador in conservation land management and
sustainable wood processing; and the Forest Health-Human Health
Initiative, which offers health-care credits to rural American
landowners who maintain their carbon-capturing forestlands. Many of
these individuals are age sixty-five or older and face daunting
medical expenses that may force them to sell their land for
timber.
Through these and countless other collaborative endeavors, the
Pinchot Institute has continued to advance its namesake's ambition
to protect ecosystems for future generations and provide vital
environmental services in an age of a burgeoning population and a
disruptive climate.
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