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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Oregon Mushroom Hunting Laws/Exceptions [Re: Ruca32]
#18517039 - 07/05/13 04:58 PM (10 years, 10 months ago) |
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Psilocybe azurescens are triggered by low temperatures and rain, not necessarily frost.
A very light frost is ok though.
As for times, search the hunting forum to see when others have found them, and also check mushroomobserver.org.
If it is cold enough and it has been raining, they will be there. The cops who look for mushroom hunters will be there too. One almost got me last year, I was picking mushrooms for a fungus fair and I was wrapping all my collections in napkins and my pockets were overflowing with napkins full of mushrooms. I was a mile away from any road and carrying a bunch of litter I had found (I always clean the places that I mushroom hunt). I ran into a ranger and he asked about the napkins. I said I had just been to a restaurant and filled my pockets with napkins. He turnes his attention to the litter I was cleaning and said that it was illegal to remove any litter that was over 50 years old. All of the trash I was cleaning was not that old, so he let me go.
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RiparianZoneJunky
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Alan Rockefeller said: Psilocybe azurescens are triggered by low temperatures and rain, not necessarily frost.
A very light frost is ok though.
As for times, search the hunting forum to see when others have found them, and also check mushroomobserver.org.
If it is cold enough and it has been raining, they will be there. The cops who look for mushroom hunters will be there too. One almost got me last year, I was picking mushrooms for a fungus fair and I was wrapping all my collections in napkins and my pockets were overflowing with napkins full of mushrooms. I was a mile away from any road and carrying a bunch of litter I had found (I always clean the places that I mushroom hunt). I ran into a ranger and he asked about the napkins. I said I had just been to a restaurant and filled my pockets with napkins. He turnes his attention to the litter I was cleaning and said that it was illegal to remove any litter that was over 50 years old. All of the trash I was cleaning was not that old, so he let me go.
WTF? Seriously Oregon? You're cleaning the place up and he's checking your litter to make sure it isn't vintage?
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Alan Rockefeller
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RiparianZoneJunky said: WTF? Seriously Oregon? You're cleaning the place up and he's checking your litter to make sure it isn't vintage?
They never let any good deed go unpunished...
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Ruca32



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Edited by Ruca32 (04/19/17 11:26 AM)
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