Gifford Pinchot and the First Foresters: The Untold Story of the Brave Men and Women Who Launched the American Conservation Movement

Bibi Gaston is a nationally recognized and fully licensed professional Landscape Architect. She has provided landscape architecture, site planning, and design services for public and private clients throughout the United States since 1986. She believes in the founding precepts of her profession, that landscape architecture, at its best, reflects a balance between man and nature.With completed projects across the United States, The Office of Bibi Gaston has worked in partnership with many prominent architects, and served hundreds of public and private clients including New York's Central Park Conservancy, the USDA Forest Service, the Trust for Public Lands, The United States Department of Transportation, the Union Pacific Railroad, The Columbia River Gorge Commission, The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs, the Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation, the Oregon Garden Foundation. Areas of specialization include residential and commercial site design, landscape restoration, historic preservation of parks and gardens, visual assessment and scenic enhancement, group facilitation, and design communication.Bibi has been invited to discuss her work at historical societies, garden clubs, and numerous professional societies.Bibi Gaston is also an Author. Her first book, The Loveliest Woman in America: A Tragic Actress, Her Lost Diaries and Her Granddaughter's Search for Home was published by William Morrow/ Harper Collins in hardback in 2008 and by Harper Perennial in a paperback edition in 2009.The Loveliest Woman in America was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Literary Arts Society's 2010 Oregon Book Award and featured as book of the month in March 2009 by the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. It was widely reviewed by both national and regional print as well as on-line publications such as the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, Kirkus Reviews, The Library Journal, the Oregonian, The New York Social Diary, The Dalles Chronicle, The Bangor Daily News, the Gay City News, the Daily Astorian, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and The Wild River Review.Bibi Gaston is an experienced public speaker who has been invited to speak at the United States Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the US Forest Service, The American Legation in Tangier, Morocco, The Faulkner Society, historical societies, libraries, universities, colleges, bookstores, book clubs and highly selective book festivals around the country including the Virginia Festival of the Book, and the Columbia Writers Series. She has been invited to speak on television and radio, including NBC Portland, FOX News Portland, WLIU Long Island Public Radio, and CTR, the Contact Talk Radio Network syndicated nationwide, among others.