We are worried about the effects of large infestation and about wildlife.

The winds came east out of the Chugach Mountains and caused damage to forest, unlike anything we have seen in over 50 years. It is going to be expensive and time consuming to clear the windfall.

There has been an outbreak in Fairbanks of the amber-marked birch leaf miner (Profenusa thomsoni), an insect that came to North America in the early 1900s and arrived in Fairbanks by about 2002.

7-19-12 Great gardening - Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Non-sting wasp (cynipoidea) larva

More leaf miners this year, less blue berry blossoms, but more cranberry.

Wind fall trees an obstacle