History The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) was founded as the Yale School of Forestry in
1900 by
Gifford Pinchot, head of the
United States Division of Forestry, and
Henry Solon Graves, both
Yale graduates who had attended forestry school in Europe, there being no professional forestry schools in the United States at the time. Graves became the first dean of the school. The school changed its name to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1972.
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