Arthur Ringland was a Regional Forester in Region 3 (Southwest) which is part of the U.S. Forest Service. Ringland participated in field activities and setting up new forests under Gifford Pinchot and became the Executive Secretary of the National Conference on Outdoor Recreation. He also founded CARE (Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid), a postwar relief organization. He grew up in Montclair, New Jersey where he found his calling in the outdoors. He attended Yale School of Forestry from 1903 to 1905 and participated in the Western Boundary Survey with the US Forest Service between 1906 and 1908, where he became the Regional Forester of the Southwestern District. During World War I he was sent overseas with the 10th Engineers Forestry Regiment and became chief of the American Relief Mission in Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1921. Upon returning to the U.S. he served as the executive secretary from 1925 to 1929 and later became the conservation liaison officer for the Civilian Conservation Corps. In this interview Ringland discusses his early interest in conservation of natural resources, Yale Forest School, the District Administration of National Forests, service during World War I, and experience on various committees regarding conservation and the U.S. Forest Service. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting the development of the U.S. Forest Service from 1900 to 1950.