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Overview
A learned man and admirably accessible writer, Pinchot showed keen insight on issues as wide-ranging as the rights of women and minorities, war, education, Prohibition, agricultural policy, land use, and the craft of politics. He developed galvanizing arguments against the unregulated exploitation of natural resources, made a clear case for thinking globally but acting locally, railed at the pernicious impact of corporate power on democratic life, and firmly believed that governments were obligated to enhance public health, increase economic opportunity, and sustain the land. Pinchot’s policy accomplishments—including the first clean-water legislation in Pennsylvania and the nation—speak to his effectiveness as a communicator and a politician. His observations on environmental issues were exceptionally prescient, as they anticipated the dilemmas currently confronting those who shape environmental public policy.
Introduced and annotated by environmental historian Char Miller, this is the only comprehensive collection of Pinchot’s writings. Those interested in the history of conservation, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American politics, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will find this book invaluable.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780271078410 |
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Publisher: | Penn State University Press |
Publication date: | 04/27/2017 |
Pages: | 264 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
ContentsIntroduction
Forests, Forestry and Foresters
Government Forestry Abroad, 1891
The Forests of Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park in Northern New York, 1893
A Plan to Save the Forests, 1895
In the Philippine Forests, 1903
Dear Forester, 1905
The Proposed Eastern Forest Reserves, 1906
Speech to the Denver Lands Convention, 1907
The ABC of Conservation, 1909
Mr. Pinchot on Forest Fires, 1910
Roosevelt’s Part in Forestry, 1919
National or State Control of Forest Devastation, 1920
Letter to Foresters, 1930
Old Evils in New Clothes, 1937
War & Peace
North American Conservation Conference, 1909
England in War, 1915
Preparedness and Common Sense, 1916
Agriculture Policy in Wartime, 1917
A Forest Devastation Warning, 1925
Conservation as a Foundation for Permanent Peace, 1940
Governing the Keystone State
The Reclamation of Pennsylvania’s Desert, 1920
The Influence of Women in Politics, 1922
Inaugural Address, 1923
The Blazed Trail of Forest Depletion, 1923
Why I Believe in Enforcing Prohibition, 1923
Old Age Assistance in Pennsylvania, 1924
Politicians or the People? 1926
Inaugural Address, 1931
The Case for Federal Relief, 1932
Lifting Farmers Out of the Mud, 1932
Liquor Control in the United States: The State Store Plan, 1934
Pennsylvania State Forests, 1942
Water, Energy, and Power
What are we going to do about Coal in Alaska? 1911
Testimony on the Hetch Hetchy Dam, 1913
Muscle Shoals, 1921
Giant Power, 1924
Prevention First, 1927
The Power Monopoly: Its Makeup and Menace, 1928
The Long Struggle for Effective Water Power Legislation, 1945
Natural Moments
One Afternoon at Pelican Bay, 1897
Swordfishing, 1912
South Seas Reflections, 1930
Two’s Company, 1936
Time Like an Ever Rolling Stream, 1936
Acknowledgements
Index