Christopher Granger was the Assistant Chief of the Forest Service from 1935 to 1952. Granger entered the United States Forest Service in 1907 after graduating from Michigan State College. He began as a technical assistant on the old Sierra South National Forest in California and a Regional Forester for the Pacific Northwest from 1925 to 1930. In 1930 he was transferred to Washington D.C. and became the first director of the Forest Survey of the United States. He was also part of the Washington State Forest Survey and Civilian Conservation Corps, directed the guayule rubber project and the Alaska spruce production project. In this interview Granger discusses policy development, special interest pressures, relationship with Congress and observations on the characteristics of some individual leaders in the Forest Service. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting the development of the U.S. Forest Service from 1900 to 1950.