UI working to domesticate huckleberries

For the past few years, University of Idaho Professor Stephen Cook, head of the Department of Entomology, Plant Pathology and Nematology, has been working to overcome significant hurdles to huckleberry propagation. Cook is in his fourth and final year of USDA-funded research to organically protect greenhouse-raised huckleberry starts from a destructive pest called the black vine weevil. Additionally, Cook is studying ways to boost survival when those potted plants are transplanted into residential yards or back into the wild.