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Gifford Pinchot was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, on August 11, 1865. [5] He was named for Hudson River School artist Sanford Robinson Gifford. [6] Pinchot was the oldest child of James W. Pinchot, a successful New York City interior furnishings merchant, and Mary Eno, daughter of one of New York City's wealthiest real estate developers, Amos Eno. [7]
Gifford Pinchot III (born December 29, 1942) is an American entrepreneur, author, inventor, and president of Pinchot & Company. He is credited with inventing the concept of intrapreneurship in a paper that he and his wife, Elizabeth Pinchot, wrote in 1978 titled "Intra-Corporate Entrepreneurship" while attending Tarrytown School for Entrepreneurs in New York.
President John F. Kennedy and others stand outside Grey Towers, the home of Gifford Pinchot, following the dedication of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies in Milford, Pennsylvania.
Grey Towers National Historic Site, also known as Gifford Pinchot House or The Pinchot Institute, is located just off US 6 west of Milford, Pennsylvania, in Milford Township. It is the ancestral summer home of Gifford Pinchot , first chief of the newly developed United States Forest Service (USFS) and twice elected governor of Pennsylvania .
The expedition brought back several living reptiles: Hon. Gifford Pinchot, who cruised the Pacific on a notable expedition, brought home with him for the National Zoological Park a specimen of the almost extinct Duncan Island tortoise, a Hood Island tortoise, four Albemarle tortoises, and three land iguanas, all from the Galapagos.
Peter Pinchot is set to discuss forestry management at a Jan. 20 luncheon hosted by Grey Towers Heritage Association.
Gifford Pinchot, 1909, by Pirie MacDonald, when Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service. As Gifford Pinchot wrote in his book, Breaking New Ground, "Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest ...
For example, when the US Forest Service was founded by Gifford Pinchot, the prevailing ethos was economic and utilitarian. Leopold argued for an ecological approach, becoming one of the first to popularize this term coined by Henry Chandler Cowles of the University of Chicago during his early 1900s research at the Indiana Dunes.