Feedback: Readers rage at pickers acting more like huckleberry poachers
Emily Applegate
Very well put. People care more about the profit from this berry than just simply enjoy them. Every year I picked just enough for my pancakes and two huckleberry cobblers. Most everyone now picks gallons upon gallons for personal gain.
George Torpey
Sad! Our plant relatives are there to support us and help us through the winter and people just take advantage of them and waste the privilege of nature’s bounty for money that will just be spent.
Christine Johnson
A lot of people using tools to pick when it should be hand-picked. … They use a tool that breaks the bush to pieces.
Crystal Windishar
I get pissed seeing people fighting over the bushes then coming on Facebook selling the berries for 60 bucks a gallon, telling you they got them from a state park. They aren’t there to make you money! Stop being greedy! And on top of that, leaving none for the wild animals to enjoy.
Traci Mercer
Damaged bushes this year means less berries next year. People are stupid!
Maria May
My brother went out this year all over to pick huckleberries and they noticed a lot of injured plants. … People too lazy to stand and squat to pick, then they end up cutting them down and sit by their car or somewhere picking them off the bush. … I find that very sad, they are destroying them and will be less in the future now.
Kimberly Youngs
Keep your rakes at home for the lawn!
Bill Clatworthy
And there’s no such thing as “my patch.”
Laurie Holdgate Cook
This purple gold is going too commercial … bought Tillamook yogurt …
Chandra Whitney
What is very sad is that people were actually ripping out whole bushes. Really people, come on. It is supposed to be like a tradition to go pick berries as a family for great specialty meal or dessert not to make a profit and cause a war. Greed took the family tradition away from the rest of us because we do not want to get shot over huckleberry pancakes.
Jackie Whitney
It’s so sad that people have to abuse these luscious divine plants the way they do. I think we should be able to take license plates down and report them so they can be fined. Requiring a video taken of them or pictures of some sort and the location they were at destroying the plants. They should also be fined a very high amount even if it is only one plant they destroy. Maybe that would end the madness they have created!