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 1
Big Lake: Arctic starflower are blooming like crazy everywhere. They’re especially good this year. Lots of dogwood too. Cloudberries are flowering still. Many roses blooming. It’s been hot and dry.
May 26
Marsh land, Big Lake: Beautiful white bogbean flowers blooming at lakeside. Cloudberry has white blooms. Quite a few this year.
July 22
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked a ton of mostly blue, also crowberries, raspberries, red bearberry, nagoonberries. Got a few cloudberries too but they’re overripe and squishy.
July 21
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 17
Creamer’s Field, Fairbanks: Picked blueberries, cloudberries, and nagoonberries. Black currants are half ripe. Still strawberries in the fields.
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.
August 22
Marsh land, Big Lake: Picked ripe blueberries. Not impressive crop. Picked some overripe cloudberries. Highbush cranberries are almost ripe.
July 27
Marsh land, Big Lake: Many ripe timberberries by the lake. Some bog blueberries, very ripe. A few cloudberries. Picked an okay amount of blue and a little bit of cloud. Saw half ripe highbush cranberry.
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