The first director of the National Forest Service was
A) Gifford Pinchot.
B) William Howard Taft.
C) John Muir.
D) Richard Ballinger.
E) Louis Glavis.

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Gifford Pinchot was the first director of the National Forest Service, serving from 1905 to 1910. Taft was a president who appointed Pinchot, Muir was a prominent conservationist who advocated for the establishment of national parks, and Ballinger and Glavis were involved in a scandal related to the transfer of public land.

The First Director of the National Forest Service Was