At the recent Hartwood Acres walk I heard aboutย ย an interesting websiteย that I would like to pass on to club members, MorelHunters.com. As many of you are aware morels are fruiting a little later this year. From looking at maps at the Morel Hunters website the culprit seems to be soil temperature rather than precipitation. The Morel hunters website crowd sources sightings of morels plotting them onto a map in a similar fashion to bird sightings, and other harbingers of spring, as reported atย the Journey North website. There is also a general and State message boards where Morel Hunters share pictures and tales of their finds.

Not sure how to find a morel? The Ohio Mushroom society has a nice article about Morels and how to find them.ย That’s recommended reading before going on theย The Great Morel Questย withย John Plischke III on May 10th.

There are a number of other websites that specialize in Morel information, Morels.com has soil temperature andย precipitation maps as well as message boards but no sighting maps. ย Let us know if you have other favorite morel websites.

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