The survey

Please take our survey! If you are 18 or older and currently living in Alaska, you are eligible.

Click here to take the survey.

There are questions about your background, your relationship to foraging, and questions about your knowledge of specific plants. The goal is not to collect "correct answers," but to understand public knowledge of poisonous plants and how that varies. Please consider taking the survey even if you are new to Alaska or know little about plants.

The survey is online, takes 5-10 minutes to complete, and enters you in a drawing for a $50 Fred Meyer gift certificate. 

The survey is open March 1 - April 30 2026. More information about specific plants will be available from this site after the close of the survey.

We hope to garner 200-300 responses from a broad variety of Alaskans. The survey is capped at 2000 responses. 

If you've already taken the survey, thank you so much. Please consider sharing it with your friends and neighbors--especially if you live outside of Anchorage or Fairbanks. Images & fliers to share are to the right, links are below.

Full link to the survey:

https://uafairbanks.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a682TL34ew8l090

Shortened link:

shorturl.at/h930U 

This is UAF IRB project 2382608. The UAF Institutional Review Board (IRB) is a group that reviews research projects involving people. This review is done to protect the rights and welfare of the people involved in the research. If you have questions or concerns about your rights as a research participant or in the event of a research-related harm, you can contact the UAF Office of Research Integrity at 474-7800 (Fairbanks area) or 1-866-876-7800 (toll-free outside the Fairbanks area) or uaf-irb@alaska.edu.