In its press release, the Forest Service said that commercial pickers take 50,000 to 70,000 gallons of berries from the forest each year. Huckleberries growing in Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

By the late 1980s, between 3% and 7% of old-growth remained in the Pacific Northwest's 56.8 million acres of forest in a mosaic of clearcuts and second-growth timber. Todd Sonflieth / OPB ...