<P> The Pinchot Sycamore, the largest tree in his native state of Connecticut and second - largest sycamore on the Atlantic coast, still stands in Simsbury . The house where Pinchot was born belonged to his grandfather, Captain Elisha Phelps, and is also on the National Register of Historic Places . </P> <P> In 1963, President John F. Kennedy accepted the family's summer retreat house, Grey Towers National Historic Site, which his son Dr. Gifford Bryce Pinchot and the Pinchot family donated to the U.S. Forest Service . It remains the only National Historic Landmark operated by that federal agency . Despite budget cuts and damage due to Hurricane Sandy, and with the assistance of a Heritage Association, tours are offered in the summer months . The Pinchot family also dedicated The Pinchot Institute for Conservation, which maintains offices both at Grey Towers and headquarters in Washington, D.C. . The Institute continues Pinchot's legacy of conservation leadership and sustainable forestry . </P> <P> Gifford Pinchot III, grandson of the first Gifford Pinchot, is co-founder and president of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, which offers a Master of Business Administration degree integrating environmental sustainability and social responsibility with innovation and profit . </P> <P> Gifford Pinchot is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of Caribbean lizard, Anolis pinchoti . </P>

Ran u.s. forestry service under concept of utilitarian conservation