CHIEFS OF THE FOREST SERVICE 

 Gifford Pinchot 



I had no personal contact with &quot;G.P.,&quot; as he 

 was known to his associates in his day until long 

 after he was fired by President Taft in connection 

 with the Ballinger case. But like everyone in the 

 Service in those days, I was conscious of the spirit 

 with which he imbued the men of the Service. I 

 think there has never been anything like it in the 

 public service before or since. He made conserva 

 tion crusaders of us but he also insisted on sound, 

 practical ways of doing business. If he didn 1 t like 

 a letter someone had prepared for his signature he 

 would simply spread across it the word &quot;rewrite&quot; 

 and return it to the author with no indication of 

 what was wrong. Above all, he battled the enemies 

 of conservation and of the Forest Service and enlisted 

 the mightiest battler of all, President Theodore 

 Roosevelt. We shall never see another Pinchot. 



