George B. Hartzog was the director of the National Parks Service from 1962 to 1974. He was born in 1920 in South Carolina where he attended public school and later graduated from Carlisle Military School in Bramberg, South Carolina in 1937. Hartzog only attended a year of university before withdrawing due to family difficulties and began to work as a stenographer and studied law at night at a law office. In 1942 he passed the bar and went on to practice law but returned to military service in 1943. After the war, Hartzog went to work for the Department of Interior as an attorney in the Bureau of Land Management. In the 1950s he was sent to the concessions management work of the National Parks and with the retirement of Conrad Wirth as the National Park Service director, he became the new head in 1962. In this interview, Hartzog discusses an overview of his career leading up to the Park Service, Wirth's retirement, NPS's relationship with other agencies, park protection and the public, the reorganization of park programs, changes in resource management policy, his work with Congress, financing the parks and concessionaires. The interview also contains an appended statement before the House Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation, Interior and Insular Affairs Committee from January 18, 1968. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting the history of forestry, parks and conservation.