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The Pinchot South Sea Expedition[1] was a 1929 zoological expedition to the Caribbean and South Pacific led and financed by Gifford Pinchot.[2][3]

  1. ^ Alternate names: Gifford Pinchot South Seas Expedition (1929); Gifford Pinchot's expedition of 1929 to the South Seas; Pinchot Expedition to South Seas
  2. ^ Pinchot South Sea Expedition 1929, Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution
  3. ^ Pinchot, Gifford (1930). To the South Seas. New York City: Blue Ribbon Books.

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Pinchot South Sea Expedition was a 1929 zoological expedition to the Caribbean and South Pacific led and financed by Gifford Pinchot. The expedition departed...

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Gifford Pinchot

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magazine (1920s) (November 23, 1925) National Irrigation Congress Pinchot South Sea Expedition Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "as though...

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Cornelia Bryce Pinchot

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and hiking over lava-encrusted volcanoes.” Known today as the Pinchot South Sea Expedition, participants conducted zoological research and collected specimens...

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Giffordius pinchotii Pinchot South Sea Expedition Pilsbry H. A. (1930). "Notes and News". Nautilus 43(4): 142. Miller C. (2001). Gifford Pinchot and the making...

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Alexander Wetmore

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secretary between 1945 and 1952. In 1929 he participated in the Pinchot South Sea Expedition. In 1939 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Royal Australasian...

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Albert Kenrick Fisher

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participated in the Death Valley Expedition in 1891, the Harriman Alaska Expedition in 1899, and the Pinchot South Seas Expedition in 1929. Many bird skins collected...

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Henry Augustus Pilsbry

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Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1929 he participated in the Pinchot South Sea Expedition. Pilsbry was the first president of the American Malacological...

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Olympic Mountains

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hunting in the Olympics. The Forest Reserve was reorganized under Gifford Pinchot as the Olympic National Forest in 1905, with an emphasis on commercial...

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Theodore Roosevelt

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politics, he quietly met with Gifford Pinchot, who related his own disappointment with the Taft Administration. Pinchot had been forced to resign as head...

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Conservation in the United States

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He introduced Gifford Pinchot, the "father of American forestry", to Brandis and Ribbentrop in Europe. From these men, Pinchot learned the skills and...

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Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

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of the mouth of the Columbia River, commemorates the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Administration of the park, which includes both federal and state lands...

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Benjamin Franklin

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relations campaign, secured secret aid, played a role in privateering expeditions, and churned out effective and inflammatory propaganda." By the time...

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Smedley Butler

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proponent of Prohibition, known as a "dry". Butler allied with Gifford Pinchot but was defeated in the April 26, 1932, primary election with only 37.5%...

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Deception Pass

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years. The first Europeans to see Deception Pass were members of the 1790 expedition of Manuel Quimper on the Princesa Real. The Spanish gave it the name Boca...

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Frederick Russell Burnham

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friends Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot. He and his associate John Hayes Hammond led novel game expeditions to Africa with the goal of finding large...

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Edward Low

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was also depicted in the Max TV series Our Flag Means Death by Bronson Pinchot. Some of Low's haunts, such as the waters around the Isles of Shoals off...

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Columbia River Gorge

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Columbia River Gorge, photographed from the southern edge of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest The view east towards The Dalles from Dog Mountain Native...

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American frontier

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committed to conserving natural resources. He worked closely with Gifford Pinchot and used the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902 to promote federal construction...

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San Francisco Peaks

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established the San Francisco Mountain Forest Reserve, at the request of Gifford Pinchot, the head of the U.S. Division of Forestry. The local reaction was hostile –...

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Pinnacles National Park

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Congressman James C. Needham. Jordan and Needham, in turn, influenced Gifford Pinchot to advocate the establishment of the Pinnacles Forest Reserve to President...

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List of suicides

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skateboarder known for his role in the 1995 drama Kids, hanging Rosamond Pinchot (1938), American actress and socialite, carbon monoxide poisoning H. Beam...

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History of Alaska

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detailed his journeys throughout Alaska. Was instrumental, along with Gifford Pinchot, in establishing the first wilderness and forest preserves in Alaska during...

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Nantahala National Forest

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William journeyed together to collect plants in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Following this expedition, Bartram was sponsored by John Fothergill to...

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December 1901

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Impact Statement (U.S. Department of the Interior, 1979) p. 8 Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Ground (Island Press, 1998) p. 239 Marci Spencer, Pisgah...

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