The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-01-10
DEPoSED CHIEF FORESTER PINCHOT|

Pinehot, Clifford. forester, was born
at Simsbury. Conn, Aug. IL, 1865,
ssn of James and Mary e. (Eno)
Pfnheot, and grandson of Constantine
Cyril Desire Pinchot, native OF Bre-
teuil, France, who, for his political
faith, came to America IN 1915, set
Ting at Milford. Pa, where he be-
came merchant with large western
interests. Gifford Pinchot attended
Phillips Exeter Academy, and was
graduated at Yale university in 1889
His love Of the woods was a passion
from childhood, and while he found
time to captain the college football
team, and carried off several of the
most coveted of the college prizes, he
also won for himself the reputation
Of being mad on trees" Deciding
to take up forestry in October, 1889,
he went to England to consult with
the men best able to direct his stud
les. AS a result of his observations
and after having spent some time in
examining the forestry exhibit at the
Paris exposition he entered the Ecole
Rationale Forestiere at Nancy. Early
in 1890 he began field work in the
French Alps and the Vosges, and af-
ter further study in Switzerland,
Germany and Austria, returned to
America. In 1891 he travelled in
Arizona, Arkansas, California, Ore
son. Washington and British Column
hia, and aided in the preliminary ex-
animation of George Vanderbilt's for
eat at Biltmore, n. c., where, in Janu-
airy, 1892, he began the first sys-
tematic forest work done in the Uni
ted States. In December, 1891, he
opened an Office in New York City,
as consulting forester, and was en-
gagged for the next three years in
miscellaneous work in various sec
tions of the country. He was a mem
Der of the commission appointed by
the National Academy of Science in
1896, at the request of the secre-
tary of the interior, to investigate
and report upon the inauguration of
a rational forest policy for the lands
Of the United States, and thus helped
TO lay the foundation of the nation s
present forest policy, which he was
shortly TO become the chief agent in
developing. AS a result of the COM
missions report, II new western for
est reserves were created with total
area of over 100000 acres, and
legislation was enacted by congress
in 1897, defining the purposes for
which forest reserves should be ere
ated, and providing for their admin
istration by the department of the
interior. The commission also re-
commended the putting into forest
reserves all lands more valuable for
the production of timber than for
agriculture, and policy providing
for the immediate use of the forests
by the public, as we'll as their produc-
ton for the benefit of the future. On
July /, 1898, Mr.. Pinchot was ap-
pointed chief of the division of for
estry in the United States department
of agriculture, and here confronted
him the dual task of bringing the
public to a realization of the eco
nomic Importance of forest preserva-
tion, and gathering the technical
knowledge and staff necessary to put
forestry into actual practice in the
United States There were then less
than ten professional foresters in the
country and no science or literature
of American forestry was in eistence,
while little practical work in this di-
rection had as yet been attempted by
the division. The broadening activity
of the latter led to it's reorganization
rs the bureau of forestry" July l.
1901. On Feb. /, 1905, the admin
istration of the forest reserves was
transferred by act of congress from
the department of the interior to the
department of agriculture. The de-
velopment of all their resources now
began in earnest, and the bureau be-
came the forest service" Under Mr..
Pinchot's guidance the policy origin
ally recommended by the committee
of 1897 was practically carried to
conclusion, and to make clear the
purpose of securing their fullest use
the forest reserves were now desig-
mated as national forests" The
growth of the service is illustrated
by the increase of its expenditures
from $28,520 in 1899 to s3,894,370
in 1909; while its receipts, of which
there were none in the first-named
year, grew to $1,765,000 in 1909.
These are derived largely from the
sale of mature timber. and the
charges for private commercial uses
OF the land, such as grazing and the
development OF water power. The
aggregate area of public land in the
national forests increased from 40