The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) was founded as the Yale Forest School in 1900, in order to provide a high level of forestry training suited to American conditions. The Pinchot family provided an endowment for a 2-year postgraduate school at Yale University. Gifford Pinchot, a Yale alumnus, had succeeded Bernhard Fernow in 1898 as Chief of the Division of Forestry(predecessor of the USFS). Henry Solon Graves, a Yale gradu...
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The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (FES) was founded as the Yale Forest School in 1900, in order to provide a high level of forestry training suited to American conditions. The Pinchot family provided an endowment for a 2-year postgraduate school at Yale University. Gifford Pinchot, a Yale alumnus, had succeeded Bernhard Fernow in 1898 as Chief of the Division of Forestry(predecessor of the USFS). Henry Solon Graves, a Yale graduate and J.W. Toumey were released from the Division to start the School. Graves, like Gifford Pinchot had attended forestry school in Europe, there being no graduate-level professional forestry schools in the United States at the time. Graves became the first dean of the school. In the fall of 1900, the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell had 24 students, Biltmore 9, and Yale 7.
The school changed its name to the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 1972. The school's newest dean is Sir Peter Crane, the English...
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