...pioneer conservationists, Hon. Gifford Pinchot, who once defined true conservation as utilizing our natural resources for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time. A situation is conceivable where the public welfare would best be served by granting a "polluter" whose...

...pioneer conservationists. Hon. Gifford Pinchot, who once defined true conservation as utilizing our natural resources for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time. A situation is conceivable where the public welfare would best be served by granting a "polluter" whose...

...of conservation. It is defined in his book which was published not too long ago, "Conservation means the use of the natural resources for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time." We believe that definition well describes the attitude and the work of the Forest Service during the...

...definition of conservation has stood the test of time. They were thinking in terms of all mankind — "The use of the natural resources for the greatest...good of the greatest number for the longest time." It seems to me that we should hesitate before abandoning the philosophy of conservation given to us...

...than a half-century ago by WJ McGee,* associate of Pinchot and the first Roosevelt, who said, "It is the use of the natural resources for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest possible time." Pinchot, McGee, and Roosevelt did not attempt to eliminate the cutting of the forests,...

...former President Theodore Roosevelt and our first Chief Forester, Gifford Pinchot. These two men gave to conservation • its true. meaning. Their definition...he will be longest and most gratefully remembered." In connection with the philosophy so well stated by Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, I would...

...Gifford Pinchot who began to advocate and pursue a unified national conservation program, based on "the use of the natural resources for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time" (in the words of Pinchot's associate WH McGee). Roosevelt regarded himself as trustee of the American...

...Pinchot, considered by many as the Father of Conservation, who stated that "conservation is the use of natural resources for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time." Yet, to the planner who must formulate and evaluate water conservation measures, how does such a definition...

...night, at a special cabinet meeting, Secretary McGee coined the word ' 'conservation,' ' defining it as "the use of the natural resources for the greatest...good of the greatest number for the longest time.' ' Thus the conservation movement was born in an adamic ecstasy at a special place, and the resulting...

...scientific brains of the new movement." It was McGee, according to Pinchot, who "defined the new policy as the use of the natural resources for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time."29 Pinchot then discussed the idea with Roosevelt, who "adopted it without the smallest hesitation....