From the Desk of the Dean and Director -- AFES Notes -- Barley Breeding in Alaska / Roscoe L. Taylor -- Barley Response to Phosphorus and Lime: Results of Applications to Horizons from Homestead Silt Loam / Winston M. Laughlin -- Soil-Temperature Monitoring Network in Alaska / Chien-Lu Ping -- Automated Environmental Data Collection for Research In Remote Locations / Robert F. Cullum and Carol E. Lewis -- Soil Conservation in Alaska: Past and Present / Roger L. Boyer -- Beach Wildrye: Characteristics and Uses of a Native Alaskan Grass of Uniquely Coastal Distribution / Leslie J. Klebesadel -- Alternaria Seedling Blight of Lobelia / Roseann Hartke Leiner and Donald E. Carling -- River Recreation Management Research: A Decision-Making Framework Applied to the Kenai River / Lee Westenburg and Alan Jubenville -- Predicting the Growth and Yield of Interior Alaska Forests / Edmond C. Packee -- Mycorrhizae: A Review of the Importance of Fungi from High-Latitude Forests of Alaska / Gary A. Laursen