Letter to the Editor

I read with amusement the recent scary tales of huckleberrying at Yahk. Made me wonder who is in my picking patch.

The article by Wildsight’s Lars Sander Green claims a thousand pounds of huckleberries per day are crossing the border at Kingsgate. This is not so. When you export into the US, the border crossing is Eastport, Idaho, U.S. Customs are not in the practice of weighing shipments and certainly would not share any information gained from a shipper with strangers from a foreign country. Who is weighing this 1,000 pounds per day? Canadians for decades have been holidaying in North Idaho and bringing huckleberries back through Kingsgate and never had their berries weighed.

We have yet to address the huge mushroom harvest, which is really commercial yet totally escapes taxation. We don’t need government agencies and regulations for a tiny bit of commercialization.

In the spirit of the berry, I enclose a picture of my favourite yogurt, which I first discovered in a Winco Grocery story in Ogden, Utah, in 2009. Winco is an employee-owned store in the western states.

William G. Hills,

Cranbrook

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