How to Find Burn Morels in Oregon

Burn Morel mushrooms are are abundant in forests the year after a wild fire. Learn how to locate and collect these edible fungi. Locating ideal burn morel terrain starts online with topographic and satellite maps. Other factors that affect your likelihood of hunting success include weather, forest type, elevation, aspect, slope, season and terrain. We talk about all these things!

[@canadiangemstones7636]

6:50 “Morels have a sense of irony.” = instant like and sub.

[@dcfromthev]

Great info! I’m in NorCal and there is surprisingly little info on KZbin like this for my area. We don’t have many associated trees for standard morels unfortunately but we sure do get a lot of forest fires. I try to find maps but end up getting lost in the madness. I do keep track of areas that appear to have been burned recently with the intention to return and hunt, but so far that has not paid off.

[@danbly6579]

Great info as usual ..thanx !

[@bmeyer2011]

This would be cool in a podcast format. Allows for easy download and listen while leaving internet access

[@jamisonacelowe]

Great presentation! I'm looking forward to my first morel hunt this year. I've lived in Oregon most of my life and never found a morel. Thanks!

[@ShaunaFox]

thank you for this! this is my first year hunting morels (in Oregon). I went yesterday and only found 4 - the first 2 I found were right next to where we parked on the side of the road, after we unsuccessfully searched in wooded area for about a hour. but I purchased your maps and am going again soon

[@seancostello26]

their unpredictably is on display when you find the very clearly mycorrhizal morels growing from pavement near grass without a tree in sight lol.. they're definitely a mysterious mushroom

[@seancostello26]

i spend alot of time in oregon, visiting my parents, and often in the eugene area.. thinking about moving up there, because the mushroom hunting scene in oregon is just so amazing compared to eastern washington! There's also a truffle hunting organization in the area, and they train truffle dogs! It's all so fascinating to me, as an avid forager and home mushroom grower.. i can't wait to come down in september to score some chantrelles!!!

[@mashafasha5796]

Eugene has low priced property compared to the rest of Oregon. Nice place to settle if you ask me.

[@googoogahgahblahblah]

I found one, and the only one that I picked and ate, in the front yard of the farm in ND, 25 miles below Canada.

[@hepingtong8019]

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@2HighNoon]

Prescribed burns and logging units are high volume areas early in the season.

[@easybakedoventv8909]

What do you think about the fires on the coast? I've seen ppl find morels on sea level in Washington..

[@seancostello26]

i actually took a trip to oregon to hunt morels this year, but i think i went too early, or just too far north.. when do you head to oregon for hunting, and what areas? that would be super useful to me.. i spent about a thousand bucks going to try to find morels in oregon but came home empty handed

[@robrich8294]

I’m in Maine and we have lots of conifers here. What are the east coast species? Yeah in Northern Maine their are wild apple trees all over and soil composition is a factor. None found yet.

[@craterellus3577]

I know im pretty late, but I've heard a lot about elm, ash, and tulip poplar trees being great for yellows/natural morels out east

[@danbly6579]

Check them apple orchardds,I know they like fruit trees

[@2HighNoon]

That desolation fire sucked for mushrooms. If you were to go over the summit and search the eastern side of the trees change and morels are everywhere

[@2HighNoon]

I’m from this area and I hunt mushrooms every year

[@mikenagy3728]

Once you have harvested some morels, how do you keep them? Dry them? How long do they keep after picking?

[@user-yg3nz3tg6c]

How much does it cost a pound in the supermarket?

[@2HighNoon]

See oregon is different because of crater lake and it’s volcanic history.