William R. Schofield was the secretary-manager of the California Forest Protective Association and a lobbyist for forestry in California. He was born in Hudson, Illinois in 1894 and became interested in forestry in high school after being introduced to the role of the USFS through a friend. He went on to graduate from the University of Washington in 1916 and worked for the US Forest Service in the Cache and Sevier National Forests until WWI. In 1917 he began training as a pilot with the French and served in France until the end of the war. After returning, he became Chief of Grazing Reconnaissance in District One but retired from the Forest Service in 1920. He was later employed as a timber engineer for Hammond Lumber Co., Humboldt County from 1924 to 1932. Schofield then moved on to become a timber engineer for the State of California in the Tax Research Bureau from 1931 to 1933. He became the secretary-manager of the California Forest Protective Association in 1943, where he wrote the Forest Practice Act and dealt with timber inventory in California. He was also a lobbyist for the timber owners and operators from 1930 to 1968. In this interview, Schofield discusses his early childhood and education, WWI service, work for the USFS, timber mapping, redwood reforestation work, time with the California Tax Research Bureau, the 1926 timber taxation exemption bill, the Black-Pratt affair, lobbying, Artie Samish and other lobbyists, techniques and changes in lobbying over thirty years. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting regional cultural history.