William "Bill" D. Hagenstein was born in Seattle on March 8, 1915, to Charles William and Janet May (Finigan) Hagenstein. Throughout his life, Hagenstein thought of himself primarily as a forester, and was a strong advocate for regional and national forestry policies that protected forests and ensured their continued productivity.
As a teenager, Hagenstein worked every summer in logging camps. Following his graduation from Ballard High School, he secured his first foreman's job, then later worked on major forest fires in Idaho in the early 1930s. He earned his B.S. in Forestry in 1938 from the University of Washington, and his master's degree from the School of Forestry at Duke University in 1941. Hagenstein then worked for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association as the forester for Western Washington. He also participated in the Keep Washington Green and Keep Oregon Green associations.
In 1943, during WWII, Hagenstein went to the South and Central Pacific, where he served as the chief engineer of military lumbering and built a saw mill to support the war effort. He went to Costa Rica two years later to help establish a cinchona (quinine) plantation that was used to grow the bark necessary for producing the drug that was used to treat malaria. Hagenstein returned to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in 1949, when he began work with the Industrial Forestry Association. Throughout his career, Hagenstein provided expert testimony to the Oregon and Washington legistlatures on 250 occasions, and spoke publicly about sound forestry practices 770 times.
Hagenstein died of natural causes on September 4, 2014.
The collection contains photographs of William Hagenstein and his associates at various conferences including Keep Oregon Green, Keep Washington Green, Industrial Forestry Association, Society of American Foresters, and the tree farm system. It also includes photos of Mr. Hagenstein's time in the South Pacific and Costa Rica while in the United States military during World War II, as well as later trips to Japan and various parts of the United States. Also included are photos of political events and meetings with various political officials.
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Donor: Gerald A. Todd, November 17, 2014; March 9, 2015.
Processed by Brendan Gallier McCauley in 2015; Lauren E. Weidlich in 2016.
William D. Hagenstein Papers (Manuscript Collection 5853)
Written on verso: Left to right: D. Y. (Nick) Lenhart (Penn State - Mont Alto) Forester - W. Va. P & P Co; Myself (the "bottleneck" of the party according to Wack) Duke '41; L. T. Easley, Forester, W. Va. P & P Co.; M. B. Applequist, Iowa State ('40) Duke '41; J. R. Frazier ("Rhett"), Clemson A. C. (c.e. '40) Duke '42; T. R. Moberg, U of Texas ('36) Duke '42; Joe Brabec Jr., Colo. S. C. ('40) Duke '41; P. A. Gira ("Mighty"), Colo. S. C. ('40) Duke '41; W. H. Guerrant ("Have an apple from Virginia") Penn State ('40) Duke '41; Peter Ward, Duke '41 (A. B.) Duke '42 (M. F.); Theo Fillas, Colo. S. C. ('40) Duke '41 ("This is all right fellows").
Written on verso: On Guam Capt. Blanding George (ill.) Commander - 120 Defence of Guam.
Written on verso of 27: TAAL LAKE CRiREX.
Item 43 scanned from negative.
According to his oral history, Hagenstein considered himself a hobby dendrologist and apparently took an interest in the trees of the South Pacific.
Written on verso: Breadfruit tree in Guam, bake with leaves on open fire.
In addition to logging, while in Costa Rica Hagenstein worked on farming cinchona trees for quinine, a much needed resource in the war effort.
Written on verso: A.C.P. Isla bonita - Vara - blanca C.R.C.A.
Written on verso: Lieutenant A. Hart to the left, first lumber checker to the right. A.C.P.I.B.V.B.C.R.C.A
Written on verso: Carpenter and sawmill workers comptone A.C.P.I.B.V.B.C.R.C.A.
Written on verso: Sawmill crew of comptone A.C.P.I.B.V.B.C.R.C.A. squaring a 39 inch log with a No. 1 circular saw.
Written on verso: Prsnl Qtrs south of the sawmill compt one A.C.P.I.B.V.B.C.R.C.A.
Written on verso: Logging, Costa Rica, 1945
Written on verso: Watching camp Montaña Azul.
From accompanying material, the men are identified left to
right: Tugman, Wheeler, Walker, Stewart, Hagenstein, Marshall Dana (editorial
page editor of the
Written on verso: AFPI, Port. (American Forest Products Industries, Portland). From accompanying material, the men are identified left to right: Cyrus Walker, Wheeler, Hagenstein, and Stub Stewart.
Written on verso of larger image: Merry Christmas + Happy New Year, Bill
Ruth was Hagenstein's first wife; she died in 1979.
Hagenstein is on the left, third in from the camera. Edmund Hayes, owner of the Row River Lumber Company, is on the far right in the back next to the flag.
Hagenstein is in item 143, third from the right
From attached material: The birthday of Roy Morse, Vice President of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, was celebrated in appropriate fashion with a birthday cake, during the course of discussions between representatives of the lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest and Bureau officials in connection with proposed right of way regulations on O & C lands. In the picture, left to right are: Daniel L Goldy, Leonard Netzorg, Roscoe Bell, Marion Clawson, Director of the Bureau, Edward P. Stamm, Roy Morse, Edmund Hayes, Nils Hult, James P. Rogers, Joseph E. Nolan, and William Hagenstein.
From attached material: Columbia County Tree Farm, Crown-Zellerbach Corporation, Joint Inspection by the Lumber and Railroad Representatives, June 19, 1952. Row 1 -- Bob Lindsey, N. B. Giustina, F. A. Cleveland, E. B. Johnson, W. H. Dana, T. Hooks, H. W. Klein, G. E. Duffy, C. E. Finley, R. C. Sanders, K. C. Batchelder. Row 2 -- W. D. Hagenstein, J. W. Vaughn, Ralph Benson, G. H. Shafer, Fred McMullen, Glen Hawkins. Row 3 -- Bus driver's son, H. V. Simpson, C. W. Richen, J. G. Manning, F. L. George, W. D. Sunter, M. F. Edbrooke, H. E. Smith, C. E. Nolte. Row 4 -- G. C. Studley, W. D. O'Brien, M. W. Roper, W. A. Culkin, W. R. Watson, G. F. Ehlen.
Color photograph.
Color photograph.
Written on verso: St. Paul - Cp. 5, L-R 1. __, 2. Geo. A. Selice, 3. Ogell, 4. Ray Johnson, 5. WDH.
Ray Dunn worked at Weyerhaeuser Co. as a lumberjack, mill worker and sawmill foreman, and possibly served with Hagenstein in WWII in the South Pacific.
From accompanying material: Left to right -- W. D. Hagenstein, Executive Vice President, Industrial Forestry Association, Portland; Hon. John C. Kluczynski (Ill.), Chairman, Subcommittee on Roads, House Committee on Public Works; Hon. Don. H. Clausen (Calif.), member of Subcommittee on Roads; and John B. Crowell, Jr., Chairman, National Forest Products Association Committee on Access Roads. Hagenstein and Crowell appeared before the hearings conducted by Chairman Kluczynski on April 20, 1966 at Washington, D. C. on the Federal-Aid Road Act of 1966 to support a $170 million annual authorization for timber access roads for the national forests for the fiscal years 1968 and 1969. Representative Clausen, as a member of the Subcommittee, also supported the increased authorization vigorously.
From attached material: Governor Mark O. Hatfield, with shovel, plants a tree on Oregon Capital grounds in recognition of 25th Anniversary of forest industry sponsored Tree Farm Program. Governor Hatfield proclaimed May 15-21, 1966 as Tree Farm Week in Oregon. Watching tree planting ceremony on Capitol grounds are (left to right) W. D. Hagenstein, executive vice president of Industrial Forestry Association; Jack Hand, state reforestation director; L. L. Stewart, president of Western Wood Products Association; G. Cleveland Edgett, vice president of WWPA's staff and children from Willakenzie school district near Eugene. IFA and WWPA are regional industry sponsors of Tree Farm program in Oregon. Nearly five million acres of privately owned forest land have been dedicated to good forest land management in Oregon during past 25 years.
Accompanying material is the event program.
Color photograph.
From accompanying material: Oregon Congressman John R. Dellenback (left) discusses forest industry employment and timber supply problems and progress with President L. J. Forrest, Industrial Forestry Association, at the 33rd Annual Meeting of IFA held in Portland, Tuesday, April 4.
From attached material: Bill Hagenstein, Natl President of the Society of American Foresters, was featured speaker at the joint conference of Alaskan, British Columbia, and Yukon Territory Foresters held at Petersburg, Alaska June 2 and 3. Mrs. H. traveled with her husband and after the conference they visited relatives in Juno.
From attached material: "Now there's some good clear spruce!" Lumberman Lars Eide discusses the lumber picture with SAF President Bill Hagenstein and N. Tongass Forest Supervisor Vince Olson. S. Tongass Forest Supervisor Gerry VanGilst stands at left. Behind Bill (to right) are Russ Lockhart, Chief of Div. of Timber Management, Alaska Region USFS, and Regional Forester Howard Johnson. Eide is owner of the Mitkof Lumber Company near Petersburg.
From attached material: SAF President Bill Hagenstein (right) and Alaska Section Chairman Jack Bennett en route with assorted foresters to Forest Service motor vessels. One of the boats carried foresters to Wrangell for lumber and chipping mill tour, the other to Crittendon Creek for observation of a salmon stream improvement project.
From attached material: SAF President Bill Hagenstein leads a small contingent of foresters (the rest went ahead?) up Crittendon Creek to location of salmon stream improvement work of USFS.
From attached material: Bill Hagenstein didn't need the microphone, nor did the pool cues (in the background) distract from his message during banquet speech. Justice (sign on rostrum) was inadvertently included but Truth and Honesty about loggers, foresters, and related professions move the audience sometimes to tears. Hagenstein was especially complimentary about the hospitality of host city Petersburg.
From left: Howard J. ("Bud") Irving, City of Ottawa Controller Ernie N. Jones, Canadian Senator John Connolly, Dr. Vidar J. Nordin, Dr. Douglas R. Redmond, U. S. Ambassador W. W. Butterworth, Canadian Centennial Commissioner John Fisher, and Hagenstein
Written on verso: E. W. Jones (City of Ottawa Controller), John Fisher (Centennial Commissioner), N. (Dr. Vidar J. Nordin), W. D. H. (Hagenstein), Senator John Connolly, Ambassador W. W. Butterworth. Connolly was a Canadian Senator and Butterworth was a U.S. Ambassador to Canada.
From accompanying material: Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) is shown briefing Special Assistant to the President Joseph A. Califano, Jr., on the critical problems in the Northwest resulting from heavy exports of logs to Japan. The meeting, arranged by Senator Morse and Mortimer B. Doyle, executive vice president of the National Forest Products Association, was help at the White House Dec. 16. Mr. Califano, at the head of the table, is flanked at the left by James Bailey, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, William D. Hagenstein, Industrial Forestry Association and Senator Morse. Right, is Mortimer B. Doyle, National Forest Products Association. Other forest products industry organizations represented at the meeting were the Western Wood Products Association, American Plywood Association, North West Timer Association and Western Forest Industries Association.
From accompanying material: Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.), forest product industry and labor organization representatives brief Special Assistant to the President Joseph A. Califano, Jr., on the critical economic conditions in the Northwest resulting from heavy Japanese log exports. The delegation, clockwise from the far side of the table are: Peter Terzick, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; John Ritchie, American Plywood Association; James Bailey, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; William D. Hagenstein, Industrial Forestry Association; Senator Morse (D-Ore.), and Mr. Califano, back to camera. On the near side of the table, from left, are: Joseph Miller and Mark P. Schlefer, Western Forest Industries Association; Mortimer B. Doyle, National Forest Products Association; Ralph D. Hodges, Jr., National Forest Products Association, representing the North West Timber Association; Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) and H. P. Newson, National Forest Products Association, representing the Western Wood Products Association.
From accompanying material: Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) led a delegation of forest products industry organization and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners representatives at the White House briefing, Dec. 16, for discussions of the critical problems in the Northwest resulting from heavy log exports to Japan. The delegation briefed White House Special Assistant Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Mortimer B. Doyle, executive vice president of the National Forest Products Association, left, is shown shaking hands with Senator Morse. The delegation included, from left, H. P. Newson, National Forest Products Association, representing the Western Wood Products Association; John Ritchie, American Plywood Association; Mr. Doyle, National Forest Products Association; Ralph D. Hodges, Jr., National Forest Products Association, representing the North West Timber Association; Senator Morse; Joseph Miller, Western Forest Industries Association; Mark P. Schlefer, Western Forest Industries Association; Rep. Al Ullman (D-Ore.); William D. Hagenstein, Industrial Forestry Association; James Bailey, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, and Peter Terzick, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
This trip to Japan was a direct result of the government hearings in January of 1968. The United States sent a trade mission to Japan in February of 1968 to enter into some kind of a negotiation with the Japanese government and the Japanese forest industry. Delegates from all of the major wood products organizations were sent and Hagenstein was appointed to the State Department as a government adviser. Meetings were held and speeches given at the United Nations but, ultimately nothing was accomplished or resolved.
Shigesawa was involved with the plywood industry in Japan.
The men are identified from the center counter clockwise: John Shaw, Bill Hayakawa, Bob Kan, Hagenstein.
From accompanying material: The 1968 Forest Products Industry Awards and NFPA special recognitions awards were presented at an Awards Dinner, May 21, during the 66th Annual Meeting of the National Forest Products Association in Boca Raton, Fla.
The forest products industry's 1968 honors were presented to, from left: Peter E. Terzick, general treasurer, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Washington D. C., for Industry Cooperation; William D. Hagenstein, executive vice president, Industrial Forestry Association, Portland, Ore., for Forest Management; Ralph J. Johnson, staff vice president and director of research, National Association of Home Builders, Washington, D. C., for Applied Research; Malcolm W. Jensen, manager, engineering standards, Institute for Applied Technology, National Bureau of Standards, the NFPA special-recognition Hands of Cooperation Award; Albert W. Wilson, editor-in-chief, PULP & PAPER, New York, for Industry Journalism; the Georgia-Pacific Corp., Portland, Ore., for Industry Leadership, Julian Cheatham accepting; the NFPA special-recognition Industry Association award to the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association, Memphis, Tenn., with Thomas Grissom, NOFMA President accepting; Ricky & Brooks, Architects, Sacramento, Calif., for Wood Structure Design, with Kenneth C. Rickey and Fred E. Brooks accepting, and Bernard L. Orell, vice president, public affairs, Weyerhaeuser Company, Tacoma, Wash., for Industrial Statesmanship.
From accompanying material: Washington D. C., March 28, 1969 -- Forest products industry organization spokesmen testified March 27 on the lumber and plywood availability and cost situation before the House Banking and Currency Committee. The panel of industry spokesmen, from left, are:
W. D. Hagenstein, executive vice president, Industrial Forestry Association, Portland, Ore.; Clarence W. Richen, vice president, northwest timber operations, Crown Zellerbach Corp., Portland, Ore.; M. B. Doyle, executive vice president, Southwest Forest Industries, Inc., Phoenix; Sam K. Arness, president, Humbolt Fir, Inc., Hoopa, Calif., for Western Lumber Manufactures, Inc.; Ralph D. Hodges, Jr., vice president - government affairs, National Forest Products Association; Charles T. Gray, president, American Forest Products Corp., San Francisco, for NFPA; James R. Turnbull, executive vice president, American Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wash., and F. M. Thomson, general manager, Peninsula Plywood Corp., Port Angeles, Wash., for American Plywood Association; John C. Zalaha, director, Willamina Lumber Corp., Willamina, Ore., for Western Wood Products Association; and M. C. Colvin, president, Holly Hill Lumber Co., Holly Hill, S. C., for Southern Pine Association.
The governors present include John Arthur Love of CO, John Chafee of RI, Tom McCall of OR, Raymond P. Shafer of PA, and Daniel J. Evans of WA.
SPA likely stands for Southern Pine Association.
Written on photo: Best wishes, John Sparkman
From left to right: Oregon meteorologist and broadcaster Jack Capell, Hagenstein, Gregg Stevens, and Kenneth A. Burkholder.
From accompanying material: List of meeting participants: John Hill, Office of Management and Budget; Norman Ross, Domestic Council; Gary Seevers, Council of Economic Advisors; Donald Webster, Office of Public Liaison; Paul Vander Myde, Department of Agriculture; John McGuire, Forest Service; George Eads, Council on Wage and Price Stability; John Hall, National Forest Products Association; Charles Nichols, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; W. D. Hagenstein, Industrial Forestry Association; Paul Ehinger, Edward Hines Lumber Company; George Casseday, Western Council, Lumber, Production and Industrial Workers; Vern Gurnsey, Boise Cascade Corporation; Donald Dyson, Seaboard Lumber Company; John Couture, National Association of Home Builders; Robert Stermitz, Southwest Forest Industries; Joseph McGrath and Ralph Hodges, Jr., National Forest Products Association; George Craig, Western Timber Association; Joe Miller, Western Forest Industries Association; Joseph McCracken, West Forest Industries Association; Arnold Ewing, North West Timber Association.
From attached material: Left to right: T. J. (Thurman James) Starker, Hagenstein, and R. P. Eide.
Front row from left to right: Maurice Poimiroo, Les Wahrgren, Dick Goodall, Ken Keeling, Dick Grant. Second row from left to right: Hagenstein, Al Pearson, Dominic Roletto, Spencer Gross, Bob Ramstad, Eric Abelson, Bill Allyn. Back row: Jim Ridgeway.
Color photographs.
Colonel William B. Greeley was born September 6, 1879 and was the third chief of the United States Forest Service, a position he held from 1920 to 1928. He began working for the Forest Service in 1904 and quickly rose through the ranks. After leaving the Forest Service in 1928, Greeley went to work for the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association and would go on to be a mentor, father figure, and boss to Hagenstein. Greeley died in 1955.
Tilton was Hagenstein's boss at the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association where he worked as a forester from 1941 to 1943 and again, after returning from WWII from 1945 to 1949.
Kolbe began working in forestry after graduation from Cornell with a Master's degree in the field in 1928. Among other jobs, he was the District Forestry Engineer of the Western Pine Association and the Director of Forestry Services for its successor, the Western Wood Products Association. He came out of retirement to be the Executive Director of the Western Forestry Center in Portland in 1970.
Born August 11, 1865, Pinchot was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. He died in October 4, 1946.
From attached material: (Kneeling, left to right) Rex Eide, Nurseryman at Col. W. B. Greeley Forest Nursey; Allen Malcolm, who planted the 100 millionth tree; Roy Stier, Forester at St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. under whose direction Malcolm planted some of the first trees from the Nursery in 1943.
(Standing, left to right) Norman G. Jacobson, retired Chief Forester, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.; E. G. Griggs II, President, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.; Eugene Ellis, Chairman, Nursery Committee Industrial Forestry Association; and H. O. Puhn, President, Industrial Forestry Association.
Left to right: Allen Malcolm, who planted the 100 millionth tree; Norman G. Jacobson, retired Chief Forester, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.; E. G. Griggs II, President, St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.; H. O. Puhn, President, Industrial Forestry Association.