History of forestry in the United States

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: Forestry museums in the United States, New York State College of Forestry, Al Smith, History of the New York State College of Forestry, Louis Marshall, Gifford Pinchot, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, New York State College of Forestry at Cornell, Bernhard Fernow, Pennsylvania Lumber Museum, Collier Memorial State Park, Michigan logging wheels, Randolph Greene Pack, Carl A. Schenck, Franklin B. Hough, Biltmore Forest School, Ralph Hosmer, Christopher Columbus Andrews, Cranberry Lake, Lumberman's Monument, Raphael Zon, Clarence Petty, Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Beavers Bend Resort Park, World Forestry Center, Harvard Forest, Charles Lathrop Pack, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Harry A. Slattery, Thomas Harvey Gill, Sierra Nevada Logging Museum, Chippokes Plantation State Park, George Pack, George Willis Pack, Thornton T. Munger, New York State Ranger School, Nelson C. Brown, List of heads of the New York State College of Forestry, Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr., Forest Capital Museum State Park, Camp Five Museum, Journal of Forestry, George Hewitt Myers, John R. Clancy, William F. Fox, Hugh P. Baker, William L. Bray, Coos County Logging Museum, Fernow Hall, Ross S. Whaley, Joseph S. Illick, Camp 6 Logging Museum, F. Franklin Moon, Clemmons Educational State Forest, John Aston Warder, Edward C. Jahn, Cornelius B. Murphy, Jr.. Excerpt: Alfred Emanuel Smith, Jr. (December 30, 1873 ¿ October 4, 1944), known in private and public life as Al Smith, was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928. He was the foremost urban leader of the efficiency-oriented Progressive Movement, and was noted for achieving a wide range of reforms as governor in the 1920s. He was also linked to the notorious Tammany Hall machine that controlled Manhattan politics; he was a strong opponent of prohibition. Smith was the first Catholic to run for President. As a committed "wet" (anti-Prohibition candidate), he attracted millions of voters of all backgrounds, particularly those concerned about the corruption and lawlessness brought about by the Eighteenth Amendment. However he was unpopular among certain segments, including Southern Baptists and German Lutherans, who believed the Catholic Church and the Pope would dictate his policies. Most importantly, this was a time of national prosperity under a Republican Presidency, and Smith lost in a landslide to Republican Herbert Hoover. Smith attempted the 1932 nomination, but was defeated by his former ally Franklin D. Roosevelt. Smith entered business in New York City, and became an increasingly vocal opponent of Roosevelt's New Deal. Al Smith was born and raised in the fourth ward on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and it was here he would spend his entire life. It was here also that his mother, Catherine Mulvihill, from Westmeath, met an Italian-German immigrant named Alfred E. Smith. They married and had their first son, Al Smith, Jr. Al Smith grew up in the 1870s and 1880s as New York itself matured. The Brooklyn Bridge was being constructed. "The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together," Smith would later recall. His parents' apartment was situated directly across from the bridge. His four grandparents were Irish, German, Italian and English, but Smith identified with the Irish