During the fall of every year, most Alaskans are very busy. One of the most important activities is picking berries to store for winter. For many decades now there have been steel berry pickers available. They hold a quite a few berries before needing to be dumped into a bucket or other container. There is also a controversy.
Some people say the berry pickers damage the blueberry bushes.
Other people say they do less damage than bears, and are therefore not harmful. No one seems to think they harm lowbush cranberry bushes. There is a village I know of that will allow anyone to come and pick blueberries in their area, but they won't allow anyone to use steel berrypickers. It will take time and careful observation and measuring to do the following experiment, but a good scientific answer is possible. Experiment Find several patches of blueberries.