Ester Dome, Ester: Picked tons of blueberries. Many ripe some still not ripe. Also lots of nagoonberries! Lots of lowbush cranberry this year, not ripe yet. Quite a few ripe raspberries. Saw ripe crowberries, cloudberries, timberberries, soapberries.
July 11
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Picked lots of stawberries, very big this year. Also lots of raspberries. Some blueberries are ready on certain plants. About a third of the cloudberries are ripe.
June 17
Ester Dome, Ester: Wild rose blooms are huge. Tons of bluebells. Many flowers in full bloom. Bad mosquitos. Highbush cranberry has green baby berries.
June 4
Fairbanks: Growth of all plants and pollen is booming after late greenup. Really good spruce tips. Highbush cranberry plants have the start of small white flowers.
May 27
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
September 12
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of lowbush cranberries.
September 2
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked lots of highbush.
August 30
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked lots of highbush.
August 27
Ester Dome, Ester: Highbush cranberry plants’ leaves have all gone red. The berries are very ripe. There are also ripe rosehips everywhere.
August 18
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked a bunch of ripe crowberries and ripe red currants. Saw half ripe highbush and lowbush cranberries.
Alaska Berry Bog 