Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (signed association copy)
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Jane Cottrell, Best wishes, Char, 2-3-07, Portland." Uncommon signed. Jane Cottrell rose to become the Forest Service's Deputy Chief, an office which sits just below the agency's Chief and Associate Chief (i.e. third in command). Char Miller is an environmental historian, a professor at Pomona College, and the author of more than a dozen environmental book on subjects as diverse as Death Valley, Hetch Hetchy, water policy and controversy, and a lot more. He is a fellow of the Forest History Society. A nice association in light of the subject, and a book described as a "masterful biography," the first of Pinchot in four decades. Blurbs by Jack Ward Thomas (former Forest Service Chief) and Carolyn Merchant. A fine book in fine jacket, as new. Fine / Fine. Item #1092
ISBN: 9781559638227
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