lopment of forestry and conservation in
             the United States. Breaking New Ground, the title excerpted from a Roosevelt accolade, was
             published posthumously in 1947. Other writings that Pinchot had authored included The Fight
             for Conservation, a dozen monographs on forestry subjects, a popular book on his journey to
             the South Seas, and approximately 150 published articles, reports, bulletins, lectures and
             On October 4,1946, at the age of eighty-one, Gifford Pinchot died in New York City of leukemia.
             After Pinchot left the Forest Service, his interest turned to holding public office. Many
             conservationists regretted it. With his talents diverted, they claimed, the progress of the
             movement declined. He was criticized for political opportunism and the relegation of forestry
             A Republican, Pinchot ran for the United States Senate in 1914 and lost--soundly. In the words
             of Pinchot's new wife, Cornelia, the powerful incumbent, Boise Penrose "mopped up the floor
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