From: dimitar@pontix.com   
      
   Thank you Daniel. Keep us posted. I'm looking at the radar images too.   
      
   Just came back from Sierra Nevada -- dry, dry... Many mushrooms   
   in a perfect herbarium condition. Dried like rock.   
      
   It drizzled here a bit this afternoon, but nothing major.   
      
           D.   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1159671192.251809.286840@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   > The fall rains have not yet hit, and the OMS mushroom show at the World   
   > Forestry Center is only a little over 2 weeks away. However, the   
   > weatherman this evening suggested cooler temperatures of 10-30 degrees   
   > within 4 days, and the possibility of showers heading our way late next   
   > week.   
   >   
   > Daniel B. Wheeler   
   > dwheeler@ipns.com wrote:   
   >> We hope the fall deluge (monsoon weather) will hit before Oct. 20. The   
   >> annual Oregon Mycological Show is October 15th this year. But if the   
   >> rain doesn't come, later is safer than earlier. Documentation exists of   
   >> a later mushroom season as global warming takes place, pushing the   
   >> normal mushroom fruiting time later into the year. The truffle season,   
   >> for example, has gone from beginning in late September in the late   
   >> 1980s to sometimes as late as the second week of November now.   
   >> Sometimes out first frost, which normally ends to the mushroom season,   
   >> doesn't happen until late February or even later. In 1987 it happened   
   >> about Oct. 31: Halloween over a wide area of Oregon.   
   >>   
   >> What does all this mean to you? I'd wait until the we get a minimum of   
   >> 3 inches of rainfall over a week, Dimitar. Until then, mushroom   
   >> production except at higher elevations (where frosts and freezes will   
   >> end the mushroom season much earlier, but deer hunting will also make   
   >> hunting mushrooms more hazardous) is probably not worth the effort IMO.   
   >>   
   >> Daniel B. Wheeler   
   >> Dimitar Bojantchev wrote:   
   >> > Thank you Daniel for the exhaustive answer.   
   >> >   
   >> > I hear that October is the best month. I also hear that it has been dry   
   >> > in your area. I'm thinking the weekend around Oct 20 -- what do you   
   >> > think? Too late, too early, or just sit and watch the rain?   
   >> >   
   >> > Regards,   
   >> >   
   >> >         D.   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> >  wrote in message   
   >> > news:1159335120.013822.216580@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >> > >   
   >> > > Dimitar Bojantchev wrote:   
   >> > >> Where do you guys suggest to go in Oregon for a mushroom   
   >> > >> exploration? Would be nice to have a mix of hardwoods/conifers.   
   >> > >> What is the best period?   
   >> > >>   
   >> > >> Any info much appreciated.   
   >> > >>   
   >> > >>         D.   
   >> > > I'd head to the Astoria area myself. Lots of state land in the area,   
   >> > > most has been cut at least once, and some old-growth just to make you   
   >> > > drool for what once was.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > Hardwoods are going to be intermixed in most younger stands, as   
   >> > > killing   
   >> > > out Red alder and Bigleaf maple is costly/time consuming, and the   
   >> > > funds   
   >> > > are budgeted in most areas. Older hardwood areas along creeks and   
   >> > > streams are especially rewarding for me. But for the most   
   >> > > biodiversity   
   >> > > the area near the old town of Valsetz is also very intriguing.   
   >> > > Difficult to find your way around there, and there are still some   
   >> > > places where it is possible to suddenly sink nearly 12 feet when what   
   >> > > you thought was solid stump turns into a hollow shell. Disturbing,   
   >> > > even.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > The hillsides away from the creeks/rivers/lakes in that area are   
   >> > > safer,   
   >> > > and sometimes you come across real rarities. Chicken of the Woods in   
   >> > > clumps of 50 pounds or more. (I found one massive 75+ pound clump   
   >> > > high   
   >> > > up in a snag on Larch Mountain near the Columbia River Gorge.   
   >> > > Unfortunately, it was still about 150 feet up in the tree, so the   
   >> > > only   
   >> > > thing I could identify was the pieces breaking off and falling to the   
   >> > > ground. Mushroom snow.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > You will need to check a forest service or BLM map for what is   
   >> > > private   
   >> > > and public property. Much of the NW corner of Oregon is public forest   
   >> > > land, and all you have to figure out is how to get in there...without   
   >> > > being shot by some crazed marijuana grower.   
   >> > >   
   >> > > Daniel B. Wheeler   
   >> > >   
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