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“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”

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Gifford Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot was a prominent American forester, conservationist, and the first Chief of the United States Forest Service. He served as the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1911 to 1915. Pinchot was a leading advocate for scientific forestry and played a crucial role in the development of the modern forestry profession. more

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