Marsh land, Big Lake: Cloudberries almost ready.
June 17
Ester Dome, Ester: Has been hot statewide and high/extreme fire danger. Rose petals mostly off, some rosehips, lots of rose galls. Tons of wildflowers: tall jacob’s ladder, yellow cinquefoil, dogwood, labrador tea, cotton grass, capitate valarian, etc. Extra lots of bluebell. Raspberry flowering with some green berries. Abundant nagoonberry flowering. Cloudberry finishing flowering. Soapberry ripe. Red currant, crowberry, and highbush/lowbush cranberry have green berries. Nice green blueberries with some purple color.
June 8
Ester Dome, Ester: Wild roses and bluebells fully blooming.
May 31
Big Lake: Wild rose has been flowering for awhile. Also nice dogwood and starflower.
May 18
Ester Dome, Ester: Pollen everywhere, Fairbanks broke world birch pollen record this year apparently. Good spruce tips and red cones (berry-like.) Red currants have small green berries. Blueberries have tons of flowers. Also flowering is highbush cranberry, bluebell, labrador tea, soapberry, nagoonberry, coltsfoot and many wildflowers. Wild rose has no flowers yet.
May 12
Turnagain Arm Trail, Anchorage: Serviceberry, watermelon berry, highbush cranberry, baneberry flowering. Lots of blooming wildflowers of white, yellow, and purple (like jacob’s ladder.)
May 6
Ester Dome, Ester: Red currants flowering.
May 5
Fairbanks: Last freeze.
April 26
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
April 23
Tanana River, Nenana: Breakup day. Nenana Ice Classic tripod clock stopped at 15:39 AKDT.
Alaska Berry Bog 