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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