Walter E. Packard was a land developer whose work stretched from California to Latin America and Greece. He attended Iowa State College, Ames in 1903 and during the summer of 1906 worked as a rod man on a survey crew in Idaho. During the fall of that same year, he accepted a part-time job at Stanford as a secretary for the Y.M.C.A. He went on to attend UC Berkeley for his graduate studies where he worked on soils and irrigation engineering from 1908 to 1909. Packard's first job after graduating was with the Irrigation Investigation Office in the Department of Agriculture investigating the Upper San Joaquin Valley. He later moved to the Imperial Valley where he worked with the UC Agricultural Extension Service on agricultural experimental work. He also participated in experimental farm work and education and the Army Educational Program in France in 1918. Packard became the superintendent of Delhi Land Settlement in 1920 and worked on improving the land, negotiating the settlement agreement and dealt with the potential environmental issues. From 1926 to 1929 Packard was part of a land development project in Mexico before becoming the director of the Rural Resettlement Administration in the United States in 1935. He continued as a consultant for land development in Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Greece. While in Greece he worked under the Economic Cooperation Administration until 1954 when he returned to the United States to work for municipal ownership of electric power. In this interview, Packard discusses his early childhood in Iowa, college education, England, irrigation investigations, the Imperial Valley, UC Agricultural Extension Service, the Army Education Program in France, studying and teaching economics at M.I.T. and Harvard, Delhi Land Settlement, work in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Greece and Jamaica, interim work, river development for flood control, and efforts on behalf of public power. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting agriculture, land and other resources development.