University of North Carolina at Asheville
D.H. Ramsey Library
Special Collections/University Archives

Ferdinand W. Haasis
(1889 - ?)

Biography

Ferdinand W. Haasis, a Yale Forestry School Graduate, worked at the Fort Valley Experiment Station in Arizona before being hired as a technical assistant at the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station when it began in 1921.  When employed at the AFES, he spent a considerable amount of time working on a detailed survey of the forest station experiments on the Biltmore Estate.  By the project's completion in 1924, Haasis had compiled 480 typewritten pages of information, encompassing the description of 87 separate strands of trees in 40 different species.  He also practiced first aid for Asheville citizens whose lawn trees had become infected.  He left the AFES in 1928, when he accepted a professorship at the University of Idaho.*

*Source:  "Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, 1921-1934."  The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station.  http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/history/app_stn_earlydays.htm

Bibliography

Haasis, F. W. Significance of the 255 Year Age Class in Eastern Kentucky. Journal of Forestry (SAF), 1923. (21:700-704).

Haasis, F. W. Extracts from Forest Plantations at Biltmore, NC. US Government, April 1924.  
{while working with the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station}  
{found on World Catalog}

Haasis, F. W. Some Relations of Temperature and Length of Germination Period to the Percentage of Germination of Seeds. Published in Baltimore, Maryland, 1928.  
{type written PhD thesis from John Hopkins University}

Haasis, F. W. Suggestions for Forest Photography. Collegiate Press of Ames, Iowa, 1929.  
{found on World Catalog}

Haasis, F. W. and Livingston, Burton E. The Measurement of Evaporation in Freezing Water. Baltimore Maryland (Johns Hopkins University), 1929.  
{reprint from the Journal of Ecology – August 1929}

Haasis, F. W. Forest Plantations at Biltmore, NC. USDA - Government Printing Office (Miscellaneous Publication #61), January 1930.  
{found on World Catalog}

Haasis, F. W. and Hursh, C. R. Effects of 1925 Summer Drought on Southern Appalachian Hardwoods. Ecology (ESA), April 1931.  
{article by AFES staff in the Ecological Society of America journal}

Haasis, F. W. Diametral Change In Tree Trunks. Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1934.  
{found on World Catalog}

Hassis, F. W. Book Review: The Anatomy and Physiology of Accretion Zones and Annual Ring Formation in the Tropics by C. Coster. Journal of Forestry (SAF), November 1935.  (947-949)

Appalachian Section of SAF. Second Cumulated Index for the Journal of Forestry. (Jan. 1930 [vol. 28] – Dec. 1939 [vol. 37]) (SAF), 1940.  
{at Duke University Biological Sciences Library}  
{one article by Haasis is listed}

Munns, E. N. A Selected Bibliography of North American Forestry (Volume I). USDA - Government Printing Office (Miscellaneous Publication # 364), 1940.  
{ten publications by F. W. Haasis are listed in the Authors Index}

Keever, Catherine. Distribution of Major Forest Species in Southeastern Pennsylvania Ecological Monographs, 1973.