1shotwade Posted May 3, 2016 Report Share Posted May 3, 2016 Recently I read in one of your posts that "the mid-west was the capital of mushroom country",or something like that.Well,This is a part of a email I for from a friend in Montama.Now I would agree with your statement 100% if I could do this every year!.Oh! And BTW,their night time temps are below freezing EVERY night! I think out only shot at this is to seed an area from that spore! It isn't the same for our shrooms so must be a cousin etc. Just "funn'n with ya' Dave!LOL Wade Wade, if you can catch the right weather conditions and are close enough to a fresh burn site the morels are thick. All told the 20 of us harvested right at 90 pounds. One couple pick and sell to a dealer locally, they average 10 lbs a day, depending on the season and burns the previous year. These are rather small, and the flesh is thin this year, just not enough snow or rain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adawg Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 Of course the mid west is the morel capital ...How can you argue with that fact .. Burn sights ?? Come on man . You just never know .. Too much opinion and not enough fact here ,,, Just my opinion .Lol ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyflyfsh Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 It's not hard to harvest so many burn morels. I used to go fill a 6 gal. bucket myself and that weighs over 20 pounds. Not hard to do in a productive burn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1shotwade Posted May 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 If I remember correctly she said they (or at least she) was only out a couple hours! Boy,I'd love to be able to get into them like that! I could eat morels at about every meal for a while before I got tired of them! Wade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 It's not unusual for a knowledgeable western NA burn-site hunter to get over 50 pounds in a day. One time in Idaho during early August I got well over 10 pounds of "grays" (M. tomentosa) in a single day... and this late-season type usually occurs in smaller quantities than the "conica" fire morel. I have seen photos of mid-Western morel hauls found under dead elm that rival the fire morel collections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitog Posted May 4, 2016 Report Share Posted May 4, 2016 I agree that burn morels shouldn't count when assessing morel productivity. They are typically abundantly available at a given location for only the year after a forest fire and are entirely dependent on fire. If you want to make comparisons, it should be done on the basis of "natural" morels that are available year after year in the same area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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