Henry J. Vaux was a professor of forestry and helped shape California's pioneering rules for forest management and harvesting. Vaux was born and raised in Pennsylvania and graduated from Haverford College with a degree in physics. He decided to turn to forestry for a career and attended UC Berkeley School of Forestry where he received his M.S. in 1935. He then began work as a forest engineer for Crown Willamette Paper Company in Oregon and became an instructor of forestry at Oregon State College. From there he initiated his doctoral studies in agricultural economics with a specialization in forest economics at UC Berkeley and after receiving his Ph.D. in 1948 was immediately appointed as a lecturer at Berkeley. In 1955 he was promoted to the dean of the UC School of Forestry where he remained until 1965. During this time he worked on expansion of the program, faculty recruitment and promotion, curriculum revision, the inclusion of women staff and students, the Forest Products Laboratory and the Wildland Research Center. He also served as an honorary member of the State Board of Forestry and in 1976 became the chairman of the board. While on the board he dealt with the appointment of board staff and managing members, logging on Redwood Creek, worked with the legislature and the State Department of Forestry, and the harmonizing of forest practice rules with California Environmental Quality Act. He also worked on water pollution legislation and fire protection in areas of state responsibility. In this interview Vaux discusses his early years and decision to pursue forestry, forest economics as a academic discipline from the 1950s to the 1980s, thoughts on the Forestry School and Berkeley campus during the student unrest of the 1960s and 70s, the creation of College of Natural Resources in 1974 and thoughts on forest and public policy issues. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting University of California history.