Gifford Pinchot is best remembered as the first head of the U.S. Forest Service, but he was also a man who for 20 years pined for his dead girlfriend, who astounded his own Republican party by appointing women and blacks to office, and who thought John Muir demented. The first in a two-part series about Gifford Pinchot. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/9.8/download-entire-issue

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