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Oral history interview with Henry E. Haefner [Sound Recording 01]
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- 1979-07-09 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:32:10
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Henry Earl Haefner was born in Giard Township, Iowa, in 1884. He began working with the U.S. Forest Service in 1908, beginning in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. He worked in the Siskiyou National Forest from 1909 to 1925. He retired from the Forest Service in the 1940s. He died in 1980.
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Tape 1, Side 1. This oral history interview with Henry E. Haefner was conducted by Charles Digregorio at Haefner's home in Portland, Oregon, on July 9, 1979, as part of the Oregon Historical Society's oral history program.
In this interview, Haefner discusses his experiences as a forest ranger in the Siskiyou National Forest from 1909 to 1925. He describes traversing the forest on foot and horseback before roads were built and speaks at length about fighting fires in the forest with early 20th century equipment. He shares his thoughts about changes in forest management over the 20th century, and about changes in public opinion regarding forest fires and environmental conservation. He closes the interview by talking about clear-cutting.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and the estate of Henry E. Haefner. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
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- eng
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- Digregorio, Charles (Contributor)