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(Washington, Idaho, Montana location of the biggest Forest Fire is U.S. history – 1910)
(Washington, location of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest)
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(Connecticut, birthplace of Gifford Pinchot)
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(Pennsylvania, served two terms as Governor from 1923 to 1927, and 1931 to 1935.)
(August 11, 1865 – October 4, 1946)
Born in Connecticut, built what we know as the Forest Service (with Theodore Roosevelt) and the means to treat a forest like a replenish-able crop, became the first Head of the Forest Service, two time governor of Pennsylvania, and also had a National Forest named after him. Pretty good resume!
The Gifford Pinchot National Forest is well known for Bigfoot sightings.
Bigfoot Eruption attended Oregon State University long enough to learn about this book, from one of the Forestry Professors, “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America” by Timothy Egan. An exciting but tragic account of the largest forest fire in U.S. history.
Take our word for it, this book feels like a book about Gifford Pinchot.
Gifford Pinchot wrote many books about Forestry and Forest Conservation. Also at Amazon.
Wildfire; Image by 272447 from Pixabay.
From our research, so far, Gifford Pinchot’s biggest contributions to the Bigfoot Phenomenon, were knowing Game Hunter and Woodsman, Theodore Roosevelt, and his lifetime of Forestry Management, which earned him the Namesake of a National Park that is full of Bigfoot Sightings. His management and efforts helped create a system of re-planting the cut forests (forest conservation), instead of leaving the forests barren, which was the first early American logging practice.
He was good at talking to both extremes of the forest conservation controversy, but eventually had a falling out with extreme forest conservationist, John Muir.
He had a hand in the decision to flood part of Yosemite, for a reservoir that supplies water to the San Francisco area. A big reason why John Muir hated him. You see Pinchot had no problem using nature resources for the country to prosper – on one hand, and then – on the other hand, being frugal as a conservationist; hard to be in the middle of all that.
Bigfoot Eruption – Gifford Pinchot National Forest
Bigfoot Eruption – Theodore Roosevelt
Forest; Image by Markus Wittmann from Pixabay.
