Not much for berries or fireweed

Observation by Wilson Justin:

The berries both cranberries and moss berries showed promise early then withered quickly once grown or stayed undersize. A pond plant has taken an invasive stance in the forest and may be one of the reasons for altering the cycle of the cranberries and moss berries. The berries grow best in small outcrops of moss and barely in thin over cover of moss. The blueberries never took off, neither did the soap berries known to us as bear berries. The roadside gravel produced some of the river bank hard shell red berries but only sporadically. The fireweed, acres and acres never bloomed. So no bumblebees around. The list goes on and on. There are plenty of grass, even up the hillsides and on terrain that used to carry lichens and or Indian tea plants.

Comments from LEO Editors:

Temperature and precipitation may be affecting some of these plants. Annualized temperatures for Gulkana during 2020 were in line with the 1980-2010 average, although daily temperature data reveals unusually warm periods in February and May. Precipitation was higher than the 1980-2010 average, with sharp increases in January and February, and again during May and late July.