I have a question: so when you look under elms, which is where I've found probably 90% of my morels, you check out the dead or dying ones. Seems to work. Question: when you fine folks find morels under other species, like ash, apple or otherwise, do you only check dead ones or just the forest floor of an mostly uniform stand of that species. It's hard for me to imagine hunting for morels by checking so many different tree species. I feel like I would waste a lot of time and not find much. Hunting under dead elms I am pretty much guaranteed to find some morels almost every single time I go out. Not always a whole bunch--but almost always one or two and often more.