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 veggie
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 Matsutake Picking Season Begins [OR]
#4653506 - 09/12/05 10:59 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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Matsutake Picking Season Begins
September 12, 2005 - koin.com
BEND, Ore. (AP) -- Hundreds of mushroom pickers have descended on Oregon this week, for the opening of the commercial Matsutake mushroom picking season.
The season started Monday in Oregon's Deschutes, Fremont-Winema, Umpqua and Willamette National Forests.
The Matsutake is considered a great delicacy in Japan and it commands quite a price.
At times during the 1990s supplies dropped and buyers were paying hundreds of dollars a pound.
Since then, the laws of supply and demand have prompted pickers to harvest Matsutake in China, Turkey and elsewhere.
Prices are back down to between $5 and $15 a pound.
Local Forest Service districts don't issue personal use Matsutake permits until October and there's a limit of fifteen mushrooms per person.
To prove they're not commercial harvesters, personal pickers also have to cut their mushrooms in half.
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Re: Matsutake Picking Season Begins [OR] [Re: veggie]
#4661150 - 09/14/05 03:36 PM (6 years, 8 months ago) |
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matsie nazis
picking fruit bodies does not in any way impact the speceis OR the habitat.
imposing legal limitations on mushroom piciking is nothing shy of ignorant facism.
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