Fire Burn Morels

Fire burn morels fruit abundantly in the first year after a forest fire.

Check out Randy Marchand’s page on the subject of Yukon fire burn morels at: http://www.morelmushroomhunting.com/fireburnmorels.html
What a haul! I can’t recall seeing so many morels at one time.

Big, fat greys in the middle of the summer at 9,000 feet.
The burn had straw dumped all over it, go figure Video

 Lost in the Yukon video shows the abundance of black morels;

USDA Forest Service Publications

The USDA Forest Service web site http://www.fs.fed.us/ lists the national forests and mushroom hunting regulations for each.

The Pacific Northwest Research Centre has a very detailed publication on morel hunting in Alaska entitled “Harvesting Morels after wildfire in Alaska”. Right click on the url to download the pdf:
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_rn546.pdf

and also see Alaskan Mushroom Guide for Harvesting Morels:
www.uaf.edu/ces/calendar/morelguide_2.pdf

The USDA Forest Service website also contains specific information on required permits and limits for both personal and commercial mushroom picking in national forests.

Where to find maps of last year’s fires:

These three pages contain links to all of the best North American fire map resources:

National Interagency Fire Centre links to national firemaps:
http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/maps.htm

The MODIS interactive fire map project features downloadable data in GIS format, gif animations of last year’s Alaska and North West Territory fires.
http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/

The Key Fire Links page by Natural Resources Canada has the best selection of links to all major fire map resources in North America, both Canadian and American:
http://fire.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/links_e.php