Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Gifford Pinchot
Born: August 11, 1865
Died: October 4, 1946 (aged 81)
Bio: Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935.
Known for:
- The fight for conservation (1910)
- A primer of forestry (1899)
- Fishing talk (1936)
- The training of a forester (1914)