Edward C. Crafts was the Assistant Chief of the United States Forest Service for congressional relations, legislation, and program development from 1950 to 1962. He was also the first director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation for the U.S. Department of the Interior from 1963 to 1969. His time as Assistant Chief centered around negotiations with congress and focusing on different types of legislation for the Forest Service. Most notably these included timber industry regulation, the Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act, and the Wilderness Bill (1950-1964). In this interview Craft discusses the independence of the Forest Service, Olympic Park boundaries, the Forest Service's support of State Forestry Departments, Congress's oversight of the Forest Service, and the Oregon and California Controverted Lands. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting the history of forest policy in the United States.