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History
The Pinchot Institute is named for Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the
U.S. Forest Service, governor of Pennsylvania, and one of the founders
of the American conservation movement.
Pinchot and his family lived at Grey Towers in Milford,
Pennsylvania. His son, Dr. Gifford Bryce Pinchot, donated Grey
Towers to the Forest Service in 1963. President John F. Kennedy
accepted this gift from the Pinchot family and then dedicated the
Pinchot Institute for Conservation. The founding purpose of the
Institute was to facilitate communication and closer cooperation among
resource managers, scientists, policymakers and the American public.
The Institute was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
in 1994, and today carries Pinchot's legacy of conservation leadership
as a center for research and policy analysis supporting sustainable
management and conservation of forests. We work in partnership
with the Pinchot family and the Forest Service, at both the national level and at the Grey Towers National Historic Site.
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