Before the fire

Late spring Doug-fir/western hemlock/ponderosa pine forest morels, with a spring cort in the dermocybe group.

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Patomarazul

Lion

Nice mushrooms! Was there a fire in that area? Posted 4 years ago
1. erinmoore
  
  Grizzly Bear
  
  Thanks! Don't think so - yet. I mean not this year. My "headline" is a bit misleading. These mushrooms are in one of the east of the Cascades areas that is fire-adapted and has always burned fairly regularly, on something like 50-100 year cycles. That is all changing now of course as fires grow hotter and more frequent. I was thinking a lot about fire; and having previously trained as a headline writer, it's hard to get away from that sort of story telling. Posted 4 years ago

Christine Young

Lion

Ohh, fantastic find! I haven't found any morels in the past couple years. Posted 4 years ago

erinmoore

Grizzly Bear

Thanks Christine. I love this image. Plus the little orange-gilled Dermocybe there for extra credit. Posted 4 years ago

The Morchella snyderi

''Morchella snyderi'' is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae. Described as new to science in 2012, it occurs in the non-burned montane forests of western North America, including California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.

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Uploaded Sep 13, 2020. Captured May 9, 2015 18:25 in 15373 S Shore Rd, Leavenworth, WA 98826, USA.

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