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.2'1 30 :• I met wit1l~ Dr. L~A .. Viereck of the U.~. Forest
1 l51al1t\t_ii ioe of Northern l~orestJ"y. in· Fairbanks. Alaska. These
·• ,a.eni'er.satiaas were continued in a telephone conversation on Janua1;y 30 •.
\We discussed the effects of fire on berry production and wetlands and
wetland succession.
:Or.. Viereck:. lias observed an increase in blueberry production following
wildfires and prescribed burns in interior Alaska •. He mentioned that a
large number of Fairbanks residents harvest . ~lueberries in burns
accessible by roado He regretted that no quantit .. \tive measurements of
o blueberry crops had been made before and after exti.~~imental prescribed
burns he has participated in. Dr. Viereck also d:i.\scussed burning of
veg~tated wetlands, in particular the Minto Flats burn and the Tanana
Flats Blair Lakes fire. He stated that wetland areas often regenerate
rapidly to the same type of vegetation.