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Bernhard Fernow Quotes

1851–1923

Bernhard Eduard Fernow (January 7, 1851 – February 6, 1923) was the third chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Division of Forestry of the United States from 1886 to 1898, preceding Gifford Pinchot in that position, and laying much of the groundwork for the establishment of the United States Forest Service in 1905.

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If we can, by reasonably husbanding present supplies, and by exercise of management, prolong for the human race the use of this most convenient material, should we not rather curb our spendthrift tendencies than rely upon the ingenuity of our children in supplying substitutes?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernhard Fernow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.