“The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.”
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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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