Emanuel Fritz was a professor, editor, and forestry consultant who became widely known for his work in forestry affairs. Fritz was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Polytechnic Institute of Baltimore. After graduating he enrolled in Cornell University as an engineering student but also took a variety of non-engineering courses such as economics, corporate finance, and music. He later attended Yale School of Forestry and was awarded a master's degree in 1914. After graduating Fritz spent time in the US Forest Service before accepting a teaching job at UC Berkeley in the 1920s. While at Berkeley he became involved with the redwoods and assisted the US Forest Service with their second-growth investigation along with other projects. Fritz was also part of the Society of American Foresters. He was involved in various political aspects of forestry such as the California Forest Practice Act of 1945 and was a consultant for the Legislative Forest Study Committee in 1944. After his retirement in 1954, Fritz became an advisor for the Foundation for American Resource Management (FARM). In this interview, Friz discusses his journey to forestry, the intersections between government and industry, his relationship with Gifford Pinchot, teaching at UC Berkeley in the 1920s, German versus American forestry, his projects with redwoods, the role of the Society of American Foresters, his report on the Forest Products Laboratory, thoughts on the Journal of Forestry, the S.A.F. revolt and the legislation surrounding the Californian Forest Practice Act. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting forest history in the United States.