Download or read book Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism written by Char Miller and published by Shearwater Books. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles and examines the life of pioneering American conservationist and Progressive politician Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service, whose beliefs about conservation and social issues came to be directly related.