Beautiful!
May at the eeearliest here, aand usually not until the last couple weeks or week. Our season here is less than a month usually end or May to end of June. Do good on recently cleared power lines, building lots, or anywhere Cottonwood/poplar roots have been disturbed, and there is disturbed or bare soil.
And of course the wild fires. We have a few big one every year so there is always option to travel to one of the past few years burns... Alaska is a huge state though, the one I wanted to go to last year aand may this year is near Fairbanks, about 5 hours North of here. A few year ago we drove south to the Funny River Burn on the Kenai peninsula...about 5 hours from here