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SoDak Morels 2019

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#1 ·
Blizzard ongoing right now. To get another foot or two of snow on top of the three feet covering the morel patches.
 
#64 ·
kb - we are having a top 10 year for precipitation - a good portion of it coming as wet, heavy and late snows. Yellows usually follow blacks by 10-14 days, but are popping near each other now as season is late. A normal year has us finding 90% or more blacks and few yellows. The Black Hills are one of the few remaining National forests with 3-4 sawmills so we have abundant ponderosa pine harvest and those logging areas are productive. Burn areas are hit/miss. Limestone and sandstone are preferred source rocks for morel soils.
 
#65 ·
thanks butch, I have read your posts over the years and wondered what you hunt. My only elevation change is about 500 ft. around here. I have not been in the Black Hills since 1989 or so but I knew there was limestone due to the caves. I have not really developed a taste for the blacks, but those big greys look mighty good. Eric it looks like you need to figure out where the recent logging has happened in the Nat. Forest. May be posted somewhere? I don't know if the pine act like elm or cottonwood when they die or not, if they do then you get a year or two.
 
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