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Morels 2024
Platensek-po:
--- Quote from: NOCK NOCK on May 04, 2024, 12:16:51 PM ---Its starting in my areas, found 50 this am, mostly smaller, but in good groupings. Todays rain and coming warmer weather should make for a productive next couple weeks.
Update, Today we picked for about 4 hours, ended up with almost 800. :yike: This was a personal best day for us on non fire area morels.
Liked this "conjoined" one. 2 heads, 1 root.
It's going to be an epic year as we haven't even checked our best areas yet.
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Dang that’s an awesome haul!! Gunna be down in eastern oregon this weekend and I’ll have to keep an eye out!
7mmfan:
--- Quote from: mcrawfordaf on May 06, 2024, 02:32:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: SuperX on May 06, 2024, 02:29:31 PM ---I had no idea we had sooty grouse in WA! Very cool... are they protected or lumped in under 'grouse'?
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They're lumped into "blue grouse" with Dusky as well.
My daughter and I found TWO whole morels on Friday on the E side... hope this rain produces some more for this week. Anyone know for how long a burn will typically produce for?
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It's my understanding the first year after a burn is the best, then it goes down hill, sometimes rapidly after that. You should expect more than usual in a burn for up to 5 years though.
To expand on NOCK NOCK's observations, the last few years hunting in burns in the Methow, I found most of my mushrooms where fire had burned buck brush. They were thick around and under scorched buck brush plants and along roads or cut fire lines where machines had broken the ground. South facing, semi open to sometimes very open.
kellama2001:
--- Quote from: NOCK NOCK on May 06, 2024, 02:11:59 PM ---@kellama2001
Southern facing slopes, fairly open, 3300’, found a lot under buck brush(ceanothis sp.?) and willows.
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Great info, thanks for letting me know!
NOCK NOCK:
--- Quote from: 7mmfan on May 06, 2024, 03:20:54 PM ---
--- Quote from: mcrawfordaf on May 06, 2024, 02:32:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: SuperX on May 06, 2024, 02:29:31 PM ---I had no idea we had sooty grouse in WA! Very cool... are they protected or lumped in under 'grouse'?
--- End quote ---
They're lumped into "blue grouse" with Dusky as well.
My daughter and I found TWO whole morels on Friday on the E side... hope this rain produces some more for this week. Anyone know for how long a burn will typically produce for?
--- End quote ---
It's my understanding the first year after a burn is the best, then it goes down hill, sometimes rapidly after that. You should expect more than usual in a burn for up to 5 years though.
To expand on NOCK NOCK's observations, the last few years hunting in burns in the Methow, I found most of my mushrooms where fire had burned buck brush. They were thick around and under scorched buck brush plants and along roads or cut fire lines where machines had broken the ground. South facing, semi open to sometimes very open.
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Agreed.
Usually only the first year after a fire for us. 2015ish was a big fire in upper Entiat, next year you couldn't step without crushing a morel, the next year we found zero in same areas.
I find good morel production has more to do with weather/temperature/sunlight/moisture, and the right sequence of those leading up to their fruiting season, than anything else.
spin05:
found these while mowing the lawn at our Packwood property on Friday. got 8 in total.
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