Hunting Burn Morels- How and where to find them.

In this video we take a trip to eastern Washington to search last years forest fire burn to find beautiful Morel mushrooms.
The fire kills the trees and creates destruction, and the morels seem to thrive in these conditions. So a lucky number of ultra-motivated mushroom lovers take to the hills in search of black gold!(again, I'm talking about morels)
These mushrooms are a delicacy and can fetch over $80 lb in markets. In this video my wife, my dog and I find over 100 burn morels and talk all about the habitat and experience throughout the video.
Thanks for subbing to the channel. Mush-love everyone.

[@blakeb9792]

Thanks for the video. I always tell my wife there is something truly magical about finding these treasures in the forest. You can look and look for miles and hours and when you start finding them, it’s all worth it.

[@MK-ti2oo]

I live in the middle of the dixie fire scar and this year has been phenomenal mushroom hunting, hundreds of morels and I found my first ever cauliflower mushroom which I harvested twice, twenty two pounds the first time and 12 lbs more after it grew back a second time.

[@o1exii]

Dear Mr Hilliard, thank you for your fascinating videos! I am from Ukraine, and after the Russian invasion in February, for many weeks, it was strangely hard for me to watch any video or listen to even my favourite music. And your mushroom videos were the first things that I started to watch in those days (I even didn't have a normal internet connection so I watched the videos with 240p quality). It was amazing and also very calming in those crazy weeks: the beauty of the PNW forests, the charm of American winter mushrooms... Nowadays my native forests in Kyivan Polissia between Borodianka and Bucha, where I used to pick mushrooms, are not a good place to walk because of land mines and artillery shells... So it goes. But at least I am happy to watch your engaging and informative videos about mushroom picking in the beautiful North American forests. Sincerely, Oleksii.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Wow, coolest comment of the day for sure! Thank you for watching and our wishes are with you over there. 🍄🤙 Mush love!

[@DeepSleepGood]

I was so excited when your wife found spot. Makes me happy happy….

[@infinitemidnightghostmourner]

I graduated from college this year. My parents know that because I'm disabled, I can't hunt for mushrooms on my own; however, they know how badly I've wanted to try Morels. As a graduation present, my amazing parents bought me a little pack of dried Morels from online. I'm so excited to try them, and I hope one day I can find some fresh ones of my own

[@rayballestero8872]

You can grow you own enjoy your very own harvest.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Wow, touching story! Where do you live? Glad you're getting to try some. Maybe some mushroom liver I'm your area could bring you fresh ones?

[@infinitemidnightghostmourner]

@@mushroomwonderland1 I live in central/south Texas, it's hot down here right now, so I have no idea if Morels are still out, but good idea- maybe I could join a Facebook group or something for mushroom lovers.

[@fungionthefly]

Getting me pumped for this year's burn morels! Dutch Oven over the campfire can't be beat!

[@speakthetruth110]

Great info. Thanks for sharing Aaron ! 👍 😉 🍄

[@th8298]

I think you're doing great. I love all of what you post. I love trilliums. They are one of my favorite flowers. Those are so cute. Wow... there are so many of them!!! That is such an awesome feeling. Dang it... I wish I was there. Geesh... Thank you for bringing us along. Wish I was there enjoying that with you both .

[@karenbergmann209]

Wow, what an abundance! Exciting!

[@lukehayvaz9194]

Mushroom picking. Most relaxing walking there is.

[@sherihobbs9523]

Thank you for your video. My husband and I have had lots of luck in burns this year.

[@sopheap4177]

Woohoo! Oh wow, I love that feeling of finding these morels. Thanks for sharing your experience and the cooking session! Great video!

[@treasuretreeservicelarryji3603]

So much fun with morel hunting this year! Your inspirational man! I can’t watch a video of your without wanting to go shrooming, or at least thinking of different places

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thanks! The mushroom gods have been smiling this morel season!!🍄

[@angiejones3714]

Me too I was only lacking west side of state this last week just got back to southeast Washington from north central( Leavenworth)Washington

[@SkyfallLotus]

Great finds! Thank you for sharing your morel adventure.

[@seanskates]

I love your vids. Always look forward to them.

[@BubuH-cq6km]

Keep feathering It👍🏼

[@Shroomtario]

Wow great harvest! Nice bunches! I'm in Canada near Toronto and new to hunting morels and mushrooms, just found first one accidentally last year researched mushrooms and been hooked. I found a few nice bunches but your vids always make me jelly. always a joy to watch your videos, thanks for sharing!

[@donnacovel4460]

Wow!!😍 no morels yet in NW Pa but lots of pheasant backs and oysters.Very inspiring✌

[@toneenorman2135]

Took my breath away when you found that big “ vein “ of morels.

[@jaygriffin7124]

Successful forage! Good times

[@HamIsDie]

Sweet vid! I've been having a blast morel hunting this year.

[@user-dc6zt7rf5z]

I was standing where your recording your video, Philip and i know you, we got tons of them in the area you went to bumping right along lol, spores forever my brother🍄

[@joshuadale7473]

Nothing better than foraging with your wife amazing video as usual.

[@marty-gd7ol]

great find! wish they grew like this in Denmark.. so envious! enjoy :)

[@kalebsheridan9017]

Very cool! Checked out a fire near myself but that one burned very hot. No living trees and no morels. Perhaps it was too hot like you said. No shade either. Found a ton at my apartment though so it all worked out 😂

[@philfort2]

That was my understanding too - that if it burned too hot, there likely wouldn't be morels. But I saw people picking them in a super-charred area (trees completely charred, no foliage, ground just black mud/ash) at Schneider Springs yesterday - and indeed I went in and found a few. (They were just really dirty)

[@TrueSighted]

I live in Oregon. Always wanted to go mushroom foraging in the older forest. Never thought about checking the burn zones. Found morels by chance a few times, but never actually with a dedicated hunt. Guess I need to get around to it one of these days.

[@Sir_Dabsalot]

I’ve gone out the past 2 weekends and done well for myself. Watching this video makes me want to get back out there right now! Thanks for making all these videos.

[@cohomesource]

That's insane! Congratulations :) you are making me want to drive up there!

[@eriatarka209]

Pulled 30 lbs today in Central Oregon. Whew, lads.

[@wildspores_n_soles2025]

Congratulations on your finds. Hope to see you in the field some day. Love the content.

[@angiejones3714]

We drove through there the other night headed home from vacation and was just awed by the heavy aroma of mushrooms 🍄 it was night and a pretty long drive didn't get to stop but we fully enjoyed the smell

[@bozhidarmadzharov7066]

Never heard of burn morels before! Might some endemic North American species. Also, in Bulgaria, the morel season has ended.

[@freeradiorulo4894]

Getting out there tomorrow! WMA here in Nebraska. Got a good rain and warm week.

[@codybennett9978]

great video

[@BeeChan_]

Love the content! Sub’d!

[@cabinvibeetsystore9094]

New sub ! Liked 👍👍👍

[@user-zr9uj5zv8k]

When I was 6 years old me and my dad looked for morel's in spring every day we love them.

[@johnmat7099]

Hey there first time commenting and wanted to say firstly thank you for your information on all the varieties of fungus and which leads to my question do you have any plans to make a spring king bollete video this season? I'm in Oregon and was curious about where to look thank you and Morrell season was very good to us this year wet spring

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I would love to but they have eluded me so far. I've never found a spring King, but I do live in western Washington so the rare chances I get to be in habitat that would accommodate those mushrooms I'm looking for morels and have not got fortunate enough to find one. But I'm always filming so if I ever do it will for sure make it into a video! Thanks for the comment.

[@jayfinn4372]

Awesome thanks 🤟

[@justinlyle7831]

Holy shit you've gained some steam since fall. Congrats. Awesome channel.

[@marymwood1964]

Loved this video !!!!! I'm so jealous ! Keep up the great hunt ! Pet Gunner for me ! Good doggie !

[@watsonrk1]

I seem to find them easier when slightly bent over, just like you mentioned.

[@joshnicholas124]

Thanks for the great video! Your dutch oven meal had my mouth watering. We are headed to that burn area this weekend.

[@cyndean18]

Thanks so much for this!

[@guyskeer5411]

Is that Wonderful Audio Clip: "Welcome to Mushroom Wonderland" Your Voice slowed Down?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

It's a giant ogre 👹 in the land of mushroom wonderland😅🍄🤙

[@chaseharmony9172]

Great video!

[@jayhershey7525]

My cousin use to find Morrells under cottonwood trees along the Puallop River.

[@honeyvitagliano3227]

💚🙏🏻

[@tristenjohnson4735]

Visited the same burn May 9th and they were barely starting to pop down at 2600, this cold spring is making it a real slow clime this year. Normally in that part of Washington I already find them up at 3200 May 1st

[@pbonniejean]

I really enjoy your topics and the beautiful Washinon scenery, and your comments are bery informative. But! You really need to slow down when you pan your camera, man! It makes us sick.

[@brianjanku4549]

Darn. I went to the same place 3 weeks ago and found nothing in 2 days looking.

[@dakotaboysnomadicadventures]

Heading out to this area next week.. think it's possible to find some alpine blondes.. looks pretty lush out there!

[@dahadza]

Found lots of morels today in the teanaway lowlands, north of Roslyn :)

[@philfort2]

I was there Fri-Sat, but left early on Saturday before the rain (apparently). Found about 1LB total in 4 patches on Friday. They were all in sunny open spots between 3400-3800ft. Anything with substantial tree cover seemed like the ground was too cold. Were you finding roughly the same thing? It sounds like you might have been a bit lower in elevation? (I tried hitting the same elevations/aspects on Saturday in a different valley but came up with nothing...) After seeing your video I'm tempted to head back though!

[@josephb2042]

12:53 there's four maybe five in that one shot.

[@macinetor]

Hi, congratulations for your video, I'm your new subscriber, I'm following you from Italy 🇮🇹 I wanted to ask you a question, I see you find those Morels in coniferous woods that have been set on fire, according to your experience, how long must pass after the fire before they start? And are they always born every year or just the first time? Thank you I hope you can answer me😊👍👋👋

[@watsonrk1]

Tried this yesterday... All I found were oysters, they were thick and so were the bears!

[@toneenorman2135]

Did you have a base camp where you kept your food and cast iron pot? Your meal looked amazing. You sure know how to live. Thank you.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yes, thanks! We camped overnight as it was about a 4 hour drive. I love camp cooking!

[@dappersloth]

Not sure if you’ve answered this before but how do you not get lost and how do you find places to hunt?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

There are a number of websites and even phone apps that show where last year's forest fires happened. Like inciweb.com I use a tracking app called Strava I also usually use the all trails app to tell exact coordinates and elevation.🍄🤙

[@dappersloth]

@@mushroomwonderland1 you’re the best, thanks!

[@GH-yf2dq]

I have been trying to identify Elm trees this spring in the hopes of finding Morels in the near future. Because of the Dutch Elm Disease these trees are hard to find. When I saw your video on Burn Morels I investigated recent fires in my area. I found a few burn sites and plan to get out there soon. One rather large fire back in 2021 in Clarksburg, North Adams and WIlliamstown I thought may be a good place to go searching for Morels. Is it too old a burn site to expect to find them?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I'm not even sure exactly where those places are, what state. Here in Western Washington we don't have elm trees, a lot of our natural morels seem to associate with conifers here, like Douglas-fir. Many different species associate with many different forest types.

[@bouncerslabrealnature9143]

what state is this... Washington or Oregon? I ask because you missed the obvious footprints in the soil.... Bigfoot evidently travels that route.

[@stevemace1725]

the trail cr fire yesterday there were none on the 27th it's 5,000 plus elevation is why.

[@margaritacastaneda287]

Aaron, do you sell the morel's that you find? I live in Cottonwood, Ca. I look up at Lassen Park and only found 20 this year. I want to add the mushrooms to my soups which I pressure can. I would love to buy them so I know that I will have some to put up. Thanks.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I do not, we rarely get more than we can handle but when we give our parents and friends them. You can buy some online.🍄🤙

[@tinman00]

In the burn after those blacks the grays will grow

[@timbowen8749]

The burn site morels are not as good as the morels we pick in the midwest in the spring! Ours are bigger, thicker, meatier and tasting much better than the burn site morels, the only trade off is a longer season out west, and they grow in more abundance, but they are paper shells with no flavor,

[@PNW_bourbon_buds]

I also hit the schneider creek fire last year and found morels. My question is will it produce again this year? Or is it only good the first spring after it burns? Thanks.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I'm really highly considering heading out there just to make a video about this topic. I ask everywhere, nobody seems to have a ton of personal experience, it's a lot of hearsay. It's a long ways for me to drive just to strike out, I've heard a couple people say that they come back but not as strong, and usually more clustered, which sounds cool to me. I think I have to go back to the same spot this year to follow up on this video.

[@PNW_bourbon_buds]

@@mushroomwonderland1 i'm going to go back and look this year. It was to good last year for me not to at least go and try.

[@mmmmmray]

What's the name of the plants at 5:47? I see them with morels often

[@mikegoddard5203]

You broke the golden rule of mushroom hunting. Please next time just say Eastern WA or the general location :)

[@mushroomwonderland1]

They're mushrooms, burn morels at that which means they will not be in that same spot next year unless there's a new fire., share with your fellow travelers. There's enough to go around. That's the spirit of mush love!

[@Robertrls01]

black because of soot deposits on the ground.

[@jstrand8338]

👍

[@anavolar3253]

Bon apetit

[@cohomesource]

What tracker app do you recommend?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I use one called Strava in association with the All Trails App. There are so many out there!

[@cohomesource]

@@mushroomwonderland1 OK thank you. I do have all trails , but I don't have a good tracking app as far as what we need when we go neandering off into the wilderness lol

[@hookedonjesus1716]

Thanks for the video very informative! The family and I are going to check this fire out tomorrow as we are on the highway 12 side of it! What did you find the sweet spot was for elevation? Thanks again for your videos!

[@daroldw4606]

Can these be found on the west side of the Cascades after a fire?

[@Forests444]

Usually east, but if the area gets plenty of sunshine 😊

[@stevenbarlow1945]

Is it possible for Morels will Flush for 2 or more years after a forest fire?

[@Forests444]

Usually 3 years but the mushrooms get smaller in size and less finds 😊

[@stevenbarlow1945]

@@Forests444 thank you.

[@Ang85323]

How many years do they fruit?

[@Forests444]

5 or little more😊

[@graphguy]

I love mycology and Morels are the 'best'. Growing up in Iowa we would harvest potato sacks of morels in May, eat galore and freeze the rest till next May. Here in California Sierra's... not as much :(

[@sabbyjones2308]

You didnt say if those cups were edible

[@rozhill4837]

How do we find morels in the midwest?

[@tabs6801]

I'm in idaho. I've had no luck at the elevations but have found plenty in more riparian areas. More by rivers and suck and like he said, just keep scanning the ground, get low to the ground you will see there are alot more than you think

[@jameseaglin4671]

All we

[@makeawishmakeawish6103]

I am getting more than 80 pounds but you guys are too slow

[@cherylaikins4347]

uhhhhhh-you didn't even wash them...you got to get the bugs and slugs out of them and the dirt....at least a five minute soak....

[@Uncle-rhynchus_mykiss]

That is not eastern Washington

[@y0z3nFr0g3rt]

You talk so much and put so many boring parts in.

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