One of my favorite things to find in the forest are mushrooms. Oyster mushrooms and shaggy manes are common in Northeast Washington. Morels are plentiful, too, but they require special circumstances to harvest.
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| A morel mushroom emerges from deep forest litter on the Colville National Forest. |
Morel only produce fruiting bodies when the trees they live in symbiosis with die. That most commonly happens after a wildfire. Morels fruit in an effort to spread its spores to a more suitable area where it can live among many trees. Morel hunters keep track of wildfires, then pick each season until the supply is exhausted.
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| Harvesters can collect up to 3 gallons of morels on the Colville National Forest. This is not quite a half gallon. |
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| These shaggy manes were collected on private property. |
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| These oyster mushrooms were collected on private property. |
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