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Wild Mushroom Hotline

Vol. 11, No. 12 Mid June 2009

“The Voice of Commercial Wild Mushroom Picking in North America”

NEWS AT A GLANCE…

Morels: No morels to speak of but price in $5-6 range anyway as companies scramble to produce needed driers. Fires not doing well this year in general. And they’re being slammed by crews for the pathetic sprinklings of mushrooms that are in them. Prospect part of Lonesome Fire has crashed, with some crews moving toward Hwy. 97 and the other side of the fire in Crater Lake National Park. The small Mitchell burn has “hung fire” after kicking out about 200 pounds. Buyer has moved out of Burns. It was such a bad year that the previous year’s fire only put out about 100 pounds of naturals!

Boletes: Weed should be going about now.

Rain looks to be ending in most areas west of the Cascades.

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