Samuel Dana was the assistant chief of the office of investigation for the U.S. Forest Service from 1910 to 1919, the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station director from 1923 to 1927 and the Dean of the School of Natural Resources at University of Michigan. Dana was born in Portland, Oregon and attended school there until he entered Bowdoin College where he concentrated on physical sciences and economics. He attempted a brief stint as an engineering student at MIT but quickly switched to forestry at Yale. After graduating in 1907 he began working in the U.S. Forest Service Office of Silvics and focused on studying the timberland "ghost towns". After WWI, he began working as Earle Clapp's assistant where he focused on the Capper and Copeland reports and the McSweeney-McNary Act. He later became the Forest Commissioner of Maine in 1921 and the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station director. He accepted the deanship at Ann Arbor as an effort to create a broader educational structure in the field of forestry. In this interview, Dana discusses becoming the assistant chief of the office of investigation, experiment stations, WWI, work as Earle Clapp's assistant, establishment of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, USFS issues such as government regulation of timber cutting, the Outdoor Resources Review Commission, policy development, USFS chiefs and his later interest in forestry education. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting forest policy from 1900 to 1950.