GIFFORD PINCHOT, FORESTER
BY WILL C. BARNES
ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
For almost a century the unoccupied government lands of the West have been used as a public commons. The stockmen have used the grass and water; the mining, sawmill, and railroad men the timber; until—simply because no one made it his business to object to the spoliation that was going on—what had been done wholly on the suffrance of the national government had come to be regarded and most lustily defended as an inherent privilege and right.
