Matanuska River Park, Palmer: Highbush cranberries have big green berries. Serviceberries are half green/blue.
May 28
Swamp land, Big Lake: Gathered lots of good very big/tender spruce tips which are everywhere. Elderberries and raspberries flowering. Red and black currants flowering too. Also bluebells, etc.
May 17
Swamp land, Big Lake: Fiddlehead ferns are ready. Maybe some past-due, but still good ones to pick.
August 7
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked ripe crowberries (perfect) and a few blueberries. Lowbush cranberries are about half ripe. Lowbush cran in many spots in the Valley don’t seem to have many berries this year compared to other years. Bog cranberries seem about half ripe.
August 22
Ester Dome, Ester: Red bearberry is ripe and good. Very nice raspberries.
August 18
UAF, Fairbanks: Trailing raspberry berries on trails. Some ripe blueberries. Few crowberries, but ripe. Bunchberries great and tons of them. Lowbush cranberries half ripe and crispy. Highbush cranberries red and nice, still tart.
August 8
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of great (domesticated) raspberries and also elderberry. A whole bunch of white spruce in the Mat-Su are spruce-beetle-killed or infested.
August 13
Swamp land, Big Lake: Really good watermelon berries.
August 3
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked really good (domesticated) raspberries. Picked lots of red currants.
July 4
Swamp land, Big Lake: Fireweed is flowering. Lots of nice red currants; berries are green and beginning to ripen.
Alaska Berry Bog 