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Taft's appointee Richard Ballinger angered conservationists by reversing many of the land-use policies established by his predecessor, Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield. Ballinger opened up vast tracts of public land in Alaska for private development and resource extraction, which conservationists viewed as a betrayal of the conservation movement. His actions culminated in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, where Gifford Pinchot, the chief forester and a key conservation advocate, publicly criticized Ballinger's policies, leading to a significant rift within the Republican Party over conservation issues.

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