While many regions have bounties of berries to pick, abnormally hot and dry conditions in other parts of the territory have left foragers an
Berry-picking season is underway, but unusually dry and hot weather across the Northwest Territories has raised questions about how good the harvest will be.
While many regions have bounties of berries to pick, abnormal conditions in other parts of the territory have left foragers and wildlife with hardly anything.
Cathy Pope, a berry picker from Norman Wells, N.W.T., said there has been an abundance of blueberries this year, and that she's "never seen it like this."
Despite the ample availability of fruit, thick wildfire smoke — some of the worst in the country, at times — has made it hard for Pope to go out and pick.
"With the smoke it's pretty hard. You have to find a good day, evening before the smoke comes in, and today it's very bad," she said in a phone interview. [...]
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