Post by: hunterrc99 on April 22, 2024, 11:55:31 AM
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Post by: ducks4days on April 22, 2024, 12:56:50 PM
I heard they are finding them in southern oregon right now.
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Post by: NOCK NOCK on May 04, 2024, 12:16:51 PM
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.
Post by: NOCK NOCK on May 05, 2024, 05:26:26 PM
Post by: kellama2001 on May 06, 2024, 11:43:39 AM
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.
Nicely done! :tup: I'm hoping to get out this weekend and do some looking. What elevation range did you find yours at if you don't mind sharing?
Post by: 7mmfan on May 06, 2024, 11:58:17 AM
Post by: NOCK NOCK on May 06, 2024, 02:11:59 PM
Southern facing slopes, fairly open, 3300’, found a lot under buck brush(ceanothis sp.?) and willows.
Post by: SuperX on May 06, 2024, 02:29:31 PM
Post by: mcrawfordaf on May 06, 2024, 02:32:19 PM
I had no idea we had sooty grouse in WA! Very cool... are they protected or lumped in under 'grouse'?
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?
Post by: Platensek-po on May 06, 2024, 02:57:46 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.
Dang that’s an awesome haul!! Gunna be down in eastern oregon this weekend and I’ll have to keep an eye out!
Post by: 7mmfan on May 06, 2024, 03:20:54 PM
I had no idea we had sooty grouse in WA! Very cool... are they protected or lumped in under 'grouse'?
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?
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.
Post by: kellama2001 on May 06, 2024, 04:32:11 PM
@kellama2001
Southern facing slopes, fairly open, 3300’, found a lot under buck brush(ceanothis sp.?) and willows.
Great info, thanks for letting me know!
Post by: NOCK NOCK on May 06, 2024, 07:55:39 PM
I had no idea we had sooty grouse in WA! Very cool... are they protected or lumped in under 'grouse'?
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?
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.
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.
Post by: spin05 on May 07, 2024, 12:15:52 AM
Post by: mcrawfordaf on May 07, 2024, 06:45:59 AM
I had no idea we had sooty grouse in WA! Very cool... are they protected or lumped in under 'grouse'?
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?
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.
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.
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.
Post by: LDennis24 on May 07, 2024, 06:50:57 AM
Post by: hunter399 on May 07, 2024, 08:13:53 AM
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.
Post by: NOCK NOCK on May 07, 2024, 08:30:38 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.
LOL, you described one of our later picking areas PERFECTLY. :tup: We always comment about seeing the buckboard notches.
Post by: LDennis24 on May 07, 2024, 09:08:10 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.
LOL, you described one of our later picking areas PERFECTLY. :tup: We always comment about seeing the buckboard notches.
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:
Post by: SuperX on May 07, 2024, 11:05:25 AM
Post by: LDennis24 on May 07, 2024, 11:40:17 AM
Post by: SuperX on May 07, 2024, 12:30:59 PM
I'm guessing the trees had alot of dead wood in them? Or your garden had the mycelium in it and they liked the cottonwood makeup and decided to use it to fruit. The mycelium from morels nearby in the woods or somewhere hidden could have found their way into the decaying wood through the organic matter on the ground I mentioned and then when you chipped them up it released them and created the mushroom bloom. The mycelium can travel through organic matter a long ways. Mushrooms are amazing!no dead or rotted wood at all, these were all healthy trees. One neighbor across the street said he occasionally finds a few morels in his yard. That could be the source. If we only get a few I will blend them up with some water and spread that around, I've seen that on YouTube and it seems to work
Post by: Chris57 on May 07, 2024, 02:39:18 PM
Post by: CJ1962 on May 07, 2024, 07:33:35 PM
Post by: hunter399 on May 09, 2024, 12:42:55 PM
Or the wife always finds them.
Probably a frying pan full after I cut that big one in half.
Post by: kellama2001 on May 20, 2024, 08:20:51 AM
Post by: 7mmfan on May 20, 2024, 11:48:50 AM
Post by: ganghis on May 23, 2024, 05:54:34 PM
Post by: ducks4days on May 23, 2024, 06:05:21 PM
Anyone been up looking in the Schneider Springs burn area this year or last? I cleaned up in there the year after the fire but haven't been back since. Wondering how much its fallen off and if it's worth the 3 hour drive to poke around a bit.
I poked around 3 different weekends 2 weeks apart last year and didnt see nearly as many as there were the year after the burn. I only found some on one weekend. They still made a good soup but we didnt find anywhere near the same volume as the year before.
Post by: ganghis on May 24, 2024, 02:13:03 PM
Anyone been up looking in the Schneider Springs burn area this year or last? I cleaned up in there the year after the fire but haven't been back since. Wondering how much its fallen off and if it's worth the 3 hour drive to poke around a bit.
I poked around 3 different weekends 2 weeks apart last year and didnt see nearly as many as there were the year after the burn. I only found some on one weekend. They still made a good soup but we didnt find anywhere near the same volume as the year before.
Thanks! That saves me a lot of driving.
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 01, 2024, 07:46:06 PM
Post by: 22shtur on June 02, 2024, 07:22:50 PM
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 03, 2024, 04:52:49 AM
Were the tops bitten off? If so, it could be deer or elk eating the tops which is not unusual.
Nope. Tops were intact, just shrunk in/shriveled up, rest of shroom was in excellent condition. Of the 300 we found, a good quarter of them were like that.
Post by: kellama2001 on June 03, 2024, 08:00:03 AM
Post by: mburrows on June 03, 2024, 09:31:49 AM
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 03, 2024, 06:03:01 PM
Found some better sized ones last weekend at roughly the same elevations. The recent moisture has sure helped. Still no big patches though.
I'm jealous of your spot. (those are glowing visible) :chuckle:
Most of our spots you have to be hard core on your game to see em. (mostly blacks, and blend in very well)
Post by: kellama2001 on June 04, 2024, 07:40:15 AM
Found some better sized ones last weekend at roughly the same elevations. The recent moisture has sure helped. Still no big patches though.
I'm jealous of your spot. (those are glowing visible) :chuckle:
Most of our spots you have to be hard core on your game to see em. (mostly blacks, and blend in very well)
It is a great spot, they stand out nice against the Tamarack needles. Heading to a new spot this weekend, hopefully will have some luck (fingers crossed)
Post by: OutHouse on June 05, 2024, 12:14:34 PM
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 05, 2024, 07:43:43 PM
Found some better sized ones last weekend at roughly the same elevations. The recent moisture has sure helped. Still no big patches though.
I'm jealous of your spot. (those are glowing visible) :chuckle:
Most of our spots you have to be hard core on your game to see em. (mostly blacks, and blend in very well)
We have been hitting our higher elevation spots 5-6000' and where the snow is gone, they are fresh and big.
Post by: OutHouse on July 18, 2024, 10:45:34 AM