April 3-5, 2009
The 16th annual George Lanz Big Ridge TN state park morel foray weekend was a very large success with 50+ attendees. The weather prior to the event produced plenty of rain and warm temps a few days before the weekend. We conducted 4 forays, with each foray yielding many morels. The final approximate tally for all the attendee’s combined was over 2,000 morels. The collected species were mostly the Morchella augusticeps, Morchella esculenta and the Morchella semilibera
On Friday evening Tradd Cotter of www.mushroommountain.com presented a power point presentation with the topic beingmorels (of course). It definitely inspired folks to get out there amd hunt them down.
After two forays on Saturday we had our fantastic potluck and it looked like we might have surpassed any prior pot luck events. No one left the meal hungry, or the weekend without success either in finding morels, new friends or the knowledge of what to look for when hunting the elusive morel.
Photo credits: Chi Sing, Jackie Schieb, and Olga Katic
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