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A Morel Superpost (members)
Morel Season Morels are a spring mushroom but spring can be loosely defined and it depends largely on where you’re looking. This post is written from a PNW perspective. Here are some of the ways one might estimate the right timing for morels Seasonality in your area Searching for “Morchella” or “morels” on iNaturalist then…
Where to find specific trees
Certain mushrooms like chanterelles, boletes, hedgehogs, and natural morels only grow with specific tree species. You can use these maps below to learn more about the distribution of various tree species in the PNW...
Morel Maps
We created these morel maps to help gather and share information on 2020 burn areas around Washington and Oregon. This is a large file so it would be best to be connected to wifi in order to download. *** June 2021 update *** I won’t be making any updates to these maps because things change…...
Low Elevation Morels
Bring on the morels! Low-elevation morels have been popping around the Pacific Northwest since early April however it’s still early season for much of the region or even possibly still covered with snow. Most of the mushrooms people are finding in the Salish Sea region are landscape morels or Morchella importuna. This are dark, conic-shaped…
Intro to west coast mushrooms
A recording from the Dec 1 Intro to Mushrooms talk
Is it safe to harvest mushrooms near quarries or mines?
Someone recently asked about harvesting mushrooms near a quarry and wondered if I had any specific guidelines surrounding this. I asked a friend and soil scientist for his feelings on this. Here are some of the things he had to say about it What was quarried? Usually quarries are for stone or sand, so there…