Mike Hagen, Director of Land Management

Since 1980, Mike has been a forester and environmental consultant on the western Olympic Peninsula. He is a long-time member of the local community, with longstanding professional and personal relationships in the area. He earned a degree in Environmental Policy and Assessment at Huxley College of Western Washington University in 1995, and is a member of the Forest Stewards Guild, Society for Ecological Restoration and Society of Wetland Scientists.

Mike has worked for and with a diverse group of organizations including the US Forest Service, ITT Rayonier, the 10,000 Years Institute, the Hoh Tribe, Clallam and Jefferson Counties, and many individual property owners, studying riparian old-growth stands, restoring aquatic and riparian habitats, developing forest management plans, and finding ways for Olympic Peninsula landowners to avoid or minimize development impacts on local rivers and streams.

Mike is responsible for implementing the habitat restoration and management operations on Trust lands. He says he is anxious to apply his professional ethic, love of fieldwork, and naturalist’s viewpoint to managing Trust lands based on local involvement, on-site data, and best available science.