Wrangell Sentinel -

To the Editor:

The August 23 Wrangell Sentinel article regarding commercial blueberry harvest raised concern. My understanding is that Trail Mountain Harvesters would get the resource (the blueberries) for free and pay the pickers fifty cents per pound. That is about one-tenth of what domestic blueberries run in the grocery store on sale. I have picked Alaskan blueberries for over forty years, and consider blueberries and other berries to be an important part of our family diet. Wild blueberries run about 4.5 to 5 pounds per gallon, so TMH would pay about $2.50 per gallon. Calculating my pi...