Agroborealis, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Winter 2003)

Abstract

Birch: white gold in the boreal forest -- Birch Beverages -- Birch Syrup Production in Alaska -- Birch Sap and Growth: Birch has commercial potential for far more than merely its wood-and Alaskan are leading the way. / Deirdre Helfferich -- Invasive Weeds in Alaska: assessment of research priorities: Invasive weeds are a serious threat to native species, and although the severity of this plant problem is not as great in Alaska as in the rest of the country, it is getting worse. To evaluate where best to allocate resources to combat this problem, the Committee for Noxious and Invasive Plant Management ranked research in three areas: prevention, eradication or control, and restoration. / Jeff Conn, Ruth Gronquist, and Maria Mueller -- A Winter Delta Dig: Twenty years of tilling, and these scientists are still having fun, figuring out how best to grow grains and forage. / Doreen Fitzgerald -- Students Afield!: Natural Resources Management 290: Every summer, natural resources majors take a trip across Alaska. / Doreen Fitzgerald -- Jobs for Credit!: NRM 300, Internship in Natural Resources Management, is a preprofessional experience with nonprofits, the State of Alaska, or private industry. / Doreen Fitzgerald -- The North Jarvis Stand Conversion Project: Near Delta Junction, a project is underway to onvert areas at high risk for fire near human habitation into safer forest and moose browse along the urban-wildland interface. / Maggie Rogers -- Antioxidants in the North: Research into antioxidants in Alaska-grown vegetables and wild and domestic berries is taking place at the Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station. / Doreen Fitzgerald -- Shapeshifter Carbon: a universal building block: How Much Carbon Where? -- The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle -- Carbon Production in Alaska's Boreal Forest -- Climate and Growth in the Boreal Forest -- Soil: The Dark laboratory -- Black Spruce and Soil Carbon Balance -- Soil Respiration after Fire -- Digging up the Facts on Northern Soils: This important element figures prominently in living organisms and in climate change. From soils to trees, from the hydrosphere to the atmosphere, carbon int he north is proving to have a sometimes surprising role. / Doreen Fitzgerald, with Valerie Barber, Gary Michaelson, Chien-Lu Ping, David Valentine, and Jason Vogel