Fairbanks: Last freeze.
May 1
Tanana River, Nenana: Breakup day. Nenana Ice Classic tripod clock stopped at 12:00 AKDT. The Nenana Ice Classic: An Alaskan Tradition Since 1917!
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.
May 26
Marsh land, Big Lake: Beautiful white bogbean flowers blooming at lakeside. Cloudberry has white blooms. Quite a few this year.
May 12
Talkeetna: Fiddlehead ferns are ready.
May 6
Fairbanks: Last freeze.
Alaska Berry Bog 