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Black plaque № 23590

Woodville, TX, United States

The Yale Summer Forestry Camp and Gifford Pinchot. In 1909 at Mooney's Lake, now known as Twin Lakes (2 mi. WSW), senior students from the Yale University (New Haven, Ct.) School of Forestry met for their annual spring camp to study local timber management and lumber operations. In April that year t

he camp was visited by Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), who served as the first chief forester of the U. S. from 1895 to 1910. He was accompanied by members of the newly appointed Yellow Pine Manufacturer

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