Gifford Pinchot - Pro Damming

Gifford Pinchot was the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service and was strongly sided with the damming because he said it was the most efficient use of resource. He argued that "the fundamental principle of the whole conservation policy is that of use, to take every part of the land and its resources and put it to that use in which it will serve the most people." 
                                                         - Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash

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