Gifford Pinchot

The short street that is named for him on the UW-Madison campus. The street, off Walnut Street across from the West Campus Generation Facility. Pinchot, who died in 1946, is considered the "father" of American conservation, serving as the first head of the U.S. Forest Service and co-founding the Society of American Foresters, which first met at his home in Washington in November 1900, according to the Forest History Society in Durham, N.C.