In Alaska's high country, the dwarf birch are shading to red and the willows are beginning to yellow. The first frosts of the season have already come. For many, this heralds the beginning of ...

A recently described dietary pattern, the Mediterranean Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay or the MIND Diet, is ...

Growing up in Southeast Alaska, I’d never seen saskatoon berries. I didn’t know them as gaawák berries, either. Yes, I’d heard of saskatoon berries, but I didn’t think they grew in Southeast.

Alaska berry mania: Where to find them, what to do with them, and the super-charged nutrients that make wild berries a potent source of vitality. Sections.

Capital City Weekly Planet Alaska: The language of berries. Like the berries, the language lives on the land. By Yeilk’ Vivian Mork and Vivian Faith Prescott ...

Berries, regardless of species, are a huge part of rural Alaska’s subsistence lifestyle. They are often the only fresh, local fruit available in remote villages.

FAIRBANKS — It’s berry season in Alaska! As the days get cooler and the nights get longer, people are picking and preserving berries for the winter. Berries are delicious and ...

Berry pickers have another reason to leave bears alone in a patch: the benefit bears provide to the berries. (Berett Wilber) Bears play a well-known role in fertilizing Alaska’s temperate forests.

How a berry picker became a viral meme in Alaska. Season 11 Episode 10 | 4m 40s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Tank Hardrick tells his story living in the South and foraging with his family in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska’s mild winter and spring weather has been a mixed blessing for berry pickers. “Painting a broad brush, it’s a good year,” Pat Holloway, retired University ...

Science Alaska’s Grizzly Bears Drop Salmon for Berries as Climate Changes When Kodiak Island's elderberries started ripening earlier, its iconic bears changed their diet.