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Morels 2024
mcrawfordaf:
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--- 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.
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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.
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Thank you very much for the info. It may be time to find a new burn. The area we've been looking at burned in 2018 but we've found pretty good crops of morels there for the last couple years - but nothing like I've seen from some members on here and not nearly the size.
LDennis24:
Burns and REALLY REALLY OLD forest areas with rotting logs and deep organic matter from those logs. Areas of the forest that were logged a millenia ago and have old stumps with buck board notches still showing produce well also. Deep in the bottoms where old cedar stumps tower over you.
hunter399:
Found ours in the timber,or the edge of old clear cuts.
Too hot and dry in old burns and clear cuts.
Of course any area may be different depending on location.
I finally made it on a board for 2024.
Holy cow.
NOCK NOCK:
--- Quote from: LDennis24 on May 07, 2024, 06:50:57 AM ---Burns and REALLY REALLY OLD foreat areas with rotting logs and deep organic matter from those logs. Areas of the forest that were logged a millenia ago and have old stumps with buck board notches still showing produce well also. Deep in the bottoms where old cedar stumps tower over you.
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LOL, you described one of our later picking areas PERFECTLY. :tup: We always comment about seeing the buckboard notches.
LDennis24:
--- Quote from: NOCK NOCK on May 07, 2024, 08:30:38 AM ---
--- Quote from: LDennis24 on May 07, 2024, 06:50:57 AM ---Burns and REALLY REALLY OLD foreat areas with rotting logs and deep organic matter from those logs. Areas of the forest that were logged a millenia ago and have old stumps with buck board notches still showing produce well also. Deep in the bottoms where old cedar stumps tower over you.
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LOL, you described one of our later picking areas PERFECTLY. :tup: We always comment about seeing the buckboard notches.
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Yep! Another good argument for leaving old growth areas alone. I believe they hold mycelium from centuries of fungi growth and the carbon decay is what feeds them. Same as the carbon produced from a burn. But after the burn the carbon is used up and it takes many years to cover the ground with that organic matter that burned away. I was on the West side of Mt. Adams one time and found an area with so much fungi of so many different varieties I could have lived there forever! It looked like a place where you could go on a mushroom trip and see actual fairies and gnomes tending to the forest! :chuckle:
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