Gifford Pinchot National Forest - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Jun 09
  

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  The origins of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest are firmly rooted in the great national conservation movement that swept this country at the beginning of the 20th century. The story of its creation involves two men who were among the foremost leaders of that movement: Gifford Pinchot and Theodore Roosevelt. Working together, Pinchot, Chief of the Forest Service, and Roosevelt, as President, had set aside millions of acres of new national forest lands in 1907. By proclamation, Roosevelt established the vast Rainier National Forest along half the length of the Cascade Range in Washington. To better administer these lands, the southern portion of the Rainier became a new national Forest in 1908. With the stroke of a pen, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 820, creating the Columbia National Forest on July 1, 1908. Encompassing 941,000 acres, the boundaries extended along the crest of the Cascade Range from Mt. Adams to the Columbia River, and west to Mount St. Helens.

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