Spring is a great time for fungi to flourish in the PNW with the late winter storms and increasing heat. One of them being the famous morel. Morels are the most sought after mushroom of them all. They are considered choice edible. Early spring you can find half-free morels and yellow morels near cottonwoods and dried streams. My favorite however, are burn morels or morchella elata. They thrive where wildfires have devastated forests, mostly in higher elevations. My dad and I went in search of these famous fungi and ended up getting a good haul. Some we found in holes where tree trunks were pulled during firefighting efforts.
Below: Massive flushes all over the area and some just exploding
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