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PAUL H. ROBERTS, director, Prairie States Forestry Project, talks about the attempt to transfer the US Forest Service to the Dept. of the Interior; policy and autonomy of the USFS; the Taylor Grazing Act, 1934; the Norris-Doxey Act, 1937; the Soil Conservation Service. EVAN W. KELLEY, head of Guayule Rubber Project, WWII, talks about work as forest ranger, supervisor, inspector, 1906-17; Tenth Engineer Corps, WWI; origin of the Civilian Conservation Corps; developments in forest fire control. JOHN WEIMAN KELLER, chief of the Bureau of Extension, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forests and Waters, talks about forestry in Pennsylvania and North Carolina; Gifford Pinchot and federal issues in forestry, 1930-50.