From	Stepan G. Shiyatov	Date	Wed, 8 Sep 1999 16:44:52 +0500
To	Keith Briffa
Subject	Proposal to IARC
Dear Keith, Thank you for answers to my questions. We decided do not participate in this project, as many problems are originated. And there is no time to write such proposal. Last week I came back from the Polar Urals. The fieldwork was successful this summer. We remeasured all trees and seedlings along the transect, mapped forest-tundra ecosystems and tree-line over a large territory, made about 100 photos. I found very old living twigs of Juniperus sibirica (up to 700-800 years)and took samples from many dead twigs. We also collected many wood samples from living and dead larches of various ages. But we were bited by many thousands of mosquitos especially small ones. Sincerely yours, Dr. Stepan G. Shiyatov Lab. of Dendrochronology Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology 8 Marta St., 202 Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia e-mail: stepan@ipae.uran.ru Fax: +7 (3432) 29 41 61 Phone: +7 (3432) 29 40 92