Gifford Pinchot

Pinchot, Gifford (1865–1946), U.S. politician and conservationist who was largely responsible for making conservation a public issue. He headed the Division of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1898–1910), and influenced President Theodore Roosevelt to transfer millions of acres of forest land to public reserves. He was a founder of the Progressive Party (1912) and twice governor of Pennsylvania (1923–29, 1931–35).

See also: Conservation.