Dena Wiley looks through a basket of morels assessing quality of the mushrooms and looking for worms that tend to invade. (Marla Hall/Clark Fork Valley Press)
June 21, 2017
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June 21, 2017 2:03 p.m.
Out of the ashes come mushrooms: 2017 brings good crop
Mushroom buyers have been in Sanders County for about a month now as both locals and professional commercial pickers collect the morels from the vast area burned last year in the Copper King Fire. According to Dena Wiley and Robin Daems, two of the buyers out of Washington State, the Conicals are reaching the end of their season while the Greys are just coming in. At the peak of the season pickers were bringing in about 1000 pounds per day while now the take is about 200 lbs.