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added, the Forest History Society at Yale became interested. At present 

 the development of the index is a cooperative enterprise between the Oral 

 History Office, the Forest History Society, and the U.S. Forest Service. 

 A master index of uniform headings from each volume is available at the 

 Oral History Office and at the Forest History Society. 



By-products 



One frequently finds that the oral history process is a catalytic 

 agent in the world of research. First, it stimulates the collection of 

 personal papers and pictures which, while valuable during the interview in 

 developing outlines and chronology, are later deposited either with the 

 transcript in Bancroft Library or with related papers in another repository. 



Another happy by-product comes from the more literate who are moti 

 vated by the interview to do further research and writing for publication. 

 Thus, Paul Roberts is currently writing an entire book, complete with all 

 the documentation he can locate, on the shelter belt, its whys and hows. 

 Ray Marsh is meticulously combining both writing and recording in a pain 

 staking, chapter-by-chapter memoir which will cover his earliest reconnaisance 

 days, the administrative posts in New Mexico, the fledgling research branch, 

 and his work with Congress; his stories of those earliest years have already 

 appeared in American Forests. Tom Gill, fortunately frustrated by the brevity 

 of the interviews, which were condensed into the short travel schedule of 

 the interviewer, is writing a more comprehensive treatise that will no doubt 

 be unique in this or any other forest history: Tom Gill on Gill and inter 

 national forestry. 



Also, there is the self-perpetuation phenomenon-- oral history 

 begetting more oral history. The interview with National Park Director 

 George Hartzog has led to serious efforts on the part of the Park Service 

 to establish a regular annual interview with the Director not necessarily 

 for publication. Also under consideration is a Service-wide plan for oral 

 history interviews of all its major leaders, which could serve as a continu 

 ation of the series conducted by Herbert Evison in the early 1960 s. 



Ed Kotok did not live to see the finished series. Just as Lee Kneipp 

 never saw his finished manuscript, and Chris Granger s final agreement, 

 covering the use of his manuscript, was found still unmailed on his desk 

 after his death. All other contributors, however, were able to devote hun 

 dreds of man hours to the reading, correcting, and approving process required 

 in finishing a manuscript. Although Ed did not get to read and approve his 

 own transcript, all who knew him will agree that the series stands as one 

 more symbol of his propensity for plunging in where few have tread before. 



(Mrs.) Amelia R. Fry 

 Interviewer - Editor 



