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Fifty years ago last week, Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot organized a Government agency to preserve what was left of the American forest. They were none too soon: in less than three centuries, the pioneers had ripped deeply into the continent's skin of trees, and another century might have left the U.S. as bare and barren as a desert. From the time of the first settlers, Americans had operated on a theory of chop and run; they had none of the Western European's respect for the wealth of forests. The mythological hero, Paul Bunyan...
European Notions. Forest Ranger Nevan McCullough, who was an infant when Roosevelt and Pinchot began the Forest Service, is typical of the new breed of forester-and the old as well. His father, an Irish immigrant who got the conservation bug, was a ranger before him, and his eldest son, a forestry student at the University of Washington, plans to follow the family tradition. McCullough, a wry, wiry man with a grey cowlick and steel-rimmed glasses, is boss of a 164,000-acre tract of the Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington State. He conducts the Government's business...
...Pinchot appointed Fine to a judgeship. Fine took the job reluctantly, more to protect his prestige as a patronage dispenser than because he wanted it. In 1947 Governor James Duff promoted him to the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Each time, after his appointment was up, Fine was elected to the posts. It never bothered Fine-and it never bothered most of the people in Luzerne County-that he was a political boss and a judge at the same time...
...mine patch was thrilled to be the confidant of so big a man. "I felt highly honored to be in the presence of Francis Shunk Brown," says Fine. "I looked up to him with the most profound respect and admiration." But Fine told him that if ever Gifford Pinchot, to whom he owed his judgeship, should decide to run for governor again, he would have to support Pinchot. Brown thought that quite proper. Three years later, when Pinchot actually tried for the nomination against Francis Shunk Brown, the situation grew a little tight for Fine...
...first, not being sure of Pinchot's plans, he favored Brown. When he dropped in to see Pinchot in Washington, on his way to Florida, Mrs. Pinchot, snapped: "You're against Gifford!" Fine promptly returned to Pennsylvania, told Brown he had to go to work for Pinchot. Brown was hurt. "I didn't mean that Pinchot owned you for life," he said. As Fine recalls it: "We both had a tear and I left." Pinchot won with a slim majority of 21,000. Fine's own Luzerne County gave him a majority...