Susan Jim held each dark purple berry with the tips of her fingers. One by one, she picked off oval-shaped leaves stuck to some of the small fruits, as she sorted them into large silver bowls.

Even though they only grow in the primitive mountain landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, at cooler and wetter elevations than most of the region's domestic agricultural crops, huckleberries, too, ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Huckleberry seedlings always sell out whenever the University of Idaho’s Pitkin Forest Nursery has them for sale. “Demand for huckleberry seedlings is skyrocketing,” nursery director ...

A few miles in, I noticed a pattern: lots of huckleberry bushes, very few huckleberries. I had started my hike up Huckleberry Mountain, one of many peaks in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness of the Mt ...

You might be more likely to spot Sasquatch in the lowlands of the Pacific Northwest than a wild huckleberry picker. The once booming industry is all but gone despite the abundance of the berries, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How do you identify a huckleberry picker in the woods? Answer: They have purple fingers, a purple tongue, and are stooped over ...

Huckleberries in the Cascade Range. MOSCOW, Idaho — Huckleberry seedlings always sell out whenever the University of Idaho’s Pitkin Forest Nursery has them for sale. “Demand for huckleberry seedlings ...