Wildfires have been though to increase primary productivity in tussock tundra as well as in other ecosystems. Wein and Bliss (1973) measured net aboveground primary production in four recently burned areas of tussock tundra in northern Canada and Alaska and compared it with production in adjacent unburned sities. In August 1982, the authors measured primary production in burned and unburned tussock tundra at the Elliott site studied in 1969 and 1970 by Wein and Bliss. The site, which burned in June 1969, was located 160 km northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska. They repeated measurements made by Wein and Bliss to determine whether recovery had been completed in the 13 yr since the burn.