Walter McCulloch was the Dean of the School of Forestry at Oregon State College from 1955 to 1967. McCulloch was born in Vernon, British Columbia in 1905 and was exposed to forestry early in his life with the forest fires in the Northwest in 1910 and having a father that was a Botanist. He graduated from the University of British Columbia and began his forestry career as an assistant ranger for the British Columbia Forest Service in North Thompson County. In 1936 he received his masters in forestry from Syracuse University, spent a brief period researching at Michigan State College and working for the Department of Forestry before settling at Oregon State College (1937-55) to pursue his research and to help revise the forestry curriculum. He went on to become the Dean of Oregon State School of Forestry where he focused on forestry education and the Hill Family Foundation. In this interview, McCulloch discusses his childhood in British Columbia, botany, the depression years, work and schooling, administration if the Oregon State Forest Conservation Act, 1942-45, research, the Oregon State School of Forestry, writing Woods Words, and the third Tillamook burn, 1945, and his travels and other activities.