History of the U.S. Conservation Movement: Records Relating to the Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy, 1904-1910 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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The Pinchot–Ballinger controversy, also known as the "Ballinger Affair", was a dispute between high level officials in the U.S. government regarding whether or not the federal government should allow private corporations to control water rights, or instead regulate them so that the wilderness would be protected from capitalist greed. This collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, and maps relating to three major issues that occurred during the controversy: withdrawal of power site lands from entry by private persons; withdrawal of sites in national forests for administrative use by the Forest Service, and administration of the Alaskan coalfields.


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