[1] Kaul served as president of the Southern Pine Association and was a pioneer in the activities to assure conservation of the national timber supply.

[1] He worked with Gifford Pinchot, then United States Forester, to greatly reduce practices that wasted wood.

[1] Kaul was a consistent Democrat, but he did not seek public office that would have distracted from his lumber manufacturing and sales interests.

Kaul was one of the most vicious labor haters in the South, was always among the worst enemies of any attempt on the part of workers employed in his lumber industry to organize.

[3]Whereas radical newspapers slandered him, the Alabama State Commission of Forestry praised him for his "ability, energy and devotion to duty contributed greatly to the advancement of forestry...his public service, and splendid personal qualities were held in highest regard and esteem by the membership of this commission."