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Paul G. (Paul Goodwin) Redington
1878–1942
A leading figure in American conservation, he helped shape both the early U.S. Forest Service and the federal Biological Survey. His career linked forestry, wildlife management, and public policy at a time when those fields were still taking form.
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Information for the Guidance of Field Men and Cooperators of the Bureau of Biological Survey Engaged in the Control of Injurious Rodents and Predatory Animals
by Paul G. (Paul Goodwin) Redington, Stanley Paul Young
About the author
Paul Goodwin Redington was an American forester and conservation official who lived from 1878 to 1942. He earned a master's degree in forestry from Yale in 1904, then joined the U.S. Forest Service the same year. Over the next two decades he served in the agency in a range of roles, building a reputation as an influential administrator in the growing conservation movement.
He later became assistant chief of the U.S. Forest Service in charge of public relations, and in 1927 he was appointed chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey. That placed him at the center of federal work on wildlife and conservation policy during a period when the government was expanding its role in managing natural resources.
Redington was also active in the professional life of forestry, serving as president of the Society of American Foresters. He wrote and spoke on forestry, wildlife, and land use, and his published work reflects the practical, policy-minded side of early twentieth-century conservation in the United States.