The spring mushroom hunting season has begun as the sprout of the morels and other tasty ‘shrooms’ offering their generous germination. Spring morels is the fungus that we can often spot at the river banks and along the hill corridor that close to the water. Among the other include boletus, and puff-ball mushrooms.
My favorite place for these ‘phantom tower’ morels hunting places are at the quarry in the Rogue River, and Gold Hill corridor in the Butte Falls. Some of the best mushroom hunting will come in May in the Howard Prairie area as well, we had a good hunt over the past couple of seasons. Mushrooms tend to sprout handsomely and in their thickest in the burned or logged forest, and they enjoy sprouting at busy walking traffic / disturbing soil.
You need to get a permit for mushroom harvest on federal lands. BLM (Bureau of Land Management) mushrooms permits cost $10 a day, or $35 a week, Or, $100 for six months permit is available. On the Klamath Forest, the selling of three types of permit for $10 and that permit allows mushroom harvest on Forest Service lands for 10 non-consecutive days. $50 for permit of 30 consecutive days and while a seasonal permit cost $100. All spring mushroom hunting permit expire July 31st.
Get gear up and ready for the most delicious, ugliest ‘Phantom Tower’ Morel Mushroom hunting in early spring.
