Pinchot Institute for Conservation

[1] It is named after Gifford Pinchot, the founding Chief of the United States Forest Service and two-time Pennsylvania Governor.

The mission of the Pinchot Institute is to contribute to the conservation and sustainability of natural resource management through thought, policy and action.

Grey Towers needed significant renovation to bring the historic home to its new role as a world-class conference center.

He helped to develop key statutes governing the conservation, management, and research of natural resources in the United States.

Starting in 2002, the Pinchot Institute partnered with rural communities to sustainably manage tropical forests in Ecuador through their Ecomadera project.

Gifford Pinchot, 1909, by Pirie MacDonald, when Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service.
President John F. Kennedy and U.S. Forest Service chief Edward P. Cliff at the dedication of the Pinchot Institute in Milford, Pennsylvania in 1963.