William B. Greeley

Greeley c. 1920

William Buckhout Greeley (1879–1955) was the third chief of the United States Forest Service, a position he held from 1920 to 1928.[1] Greeley was born September 6, 1879, in Oswego, New York, to parents Frank Norton Greeley, a Congregational clergyman, and Anna Cheney (Buckhout) Greeley. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1901, and received a Master of Forestry degree from Yale University in 1904.[2] In 1924 he established the first wilderness area in the United States: Gila Wilderness in Gila National Forest, New Mexico.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Morgan, George T., Jr. (1961). William B. Greeley: A Practical Forester. St. Paul, Minnesota: Forest History Society, Inc.
  2. ↑ Yale University. Dept. of Forestry (1913). Biographical Record of the Graduates and Former Students of the Yale Forest School. Yale Forest School. pp. 77–78.
  3. ↑ Steen, Harold K. (2004). The U.S. Forest Service: A Centennial History. University of Washington Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-295-80348-7.

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