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Janet Bostwick[_2_] Janet Bostwick[_2_] is offline
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Lin wrote:
> Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
>> You can read up on morel mushroom picking on the 'net. If you don't
>> have as many on the property as before, it may be that someone is
>> picking them already. It's a business, where people travel across
>> the country to pick each year and sell their harvest.

>
> Probably not where my mom and her neighbors are. Some of them would
> shoot at strangers traipsing around uninvited on their land.
> Fortunately, most people around there have the good sense to go to the
> door and ask permission before trespassing.
>
> She walks her property along the creek quite often with her dogs and
> the mushrooms just aren't there like they were. She really does think
> it's because there aren't cattle grazing there anymore and I'm
> inclined to agree.
>
>> http://www.freshplaza.com/news_detail.asp?id=24600
>>
>> http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...oom-usat_x.htm

>
> I especially liked the second story! I'm wondering if we have some
> mushrooms close by because off all the wildfires we had here last
> year. Hmmmmm.
>
> --Lin


Well, go for it!!! Good hunting!
Janet