Oral history interview with Archie L. Wenrich, 1974.

Biographical Note

District woodlands manager.

Scope and Contents

Education in forestry; Civilian Conservation Corps; appraising timber for Resettlment Administration; work for Hummel-Ross in wood and land procurement, land management; black employees; paper demands during World War II; reforesting; merger with Continental Can; logging safety programs; hybrid planting; German prisoner of war labor during World War II.

Subjects

• African Americans--Employment.
• Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
• Continental Can Company.
• Foresters--Interviews.
• Forests and forestry.
• Interviews.
• Logging.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Paper industry.
• Prisoners of war--Germany.
• United States. Resettlement Administration.
• Wenrich, Archie L.--Interviews.