Interviews conducted l958-1967 by Elwood R. Maunder and Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library. Introduction by Henry J. Vaux. Photographs and photocopies of documents and clippings included. Study of forestry at Yale; comments on Gifford Pinchot and other foresters; growth of conservation movement; career in U.S. Forest Service, l9l5-l9l7; teaching at University of California, Berkeley, in School of Forestry, l9l9-l954; interest in redwoods; service as consultant to lumber industry and to U.S. Department of the Interior; association with Society of American Foresters and editorship of Journal of Forestry; influence on forestry legislation adopted by California after World War II.