Oral history interview with Clark Ostergaard by Marsha Holland and Susan Cook

Oral history interview by Marsha Holland and Susan Cook with Clark Ostergaard. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents,siblings, growing up in Orem, Utah and education; Playing football in high school, Getting a scholarship to Snow College; Missionary service in Denmark; Attending at BYU for a semester and transfering to USU to study Forestry but changing to Landscape Architecture; Meeting his future wife at USU; Marriage and family; Rifing a bicycle to class; Passing a California license exam; Surveying for the U.S. Forest service; Using a plane-table; Working with civil engineers; Working at Wasatch, Salmon-Challis, and Tahoe National Forests; Beauty of the Sawtooth Mountains; Landscape management projects such as boardwalks, parking lots; restrooms, telephone poles; timber harvesting, and trail heads; The impact of people on streams; Retiring from the Forest Service after 30 years; Moonlighting in the private sector; Missionary service in New Zealand; Designing landscape for the New Zealand Temple grounds; Volunteering in Alaska at Chugach National Forest; Drawing and painting; and working with environmentalists; and oil companies.