“All eyes have been on Caldor.”
Botanist Alison Stanton and her 12-year-old son Milo forged a small river, climbed across a huge, fallen tree and scrambled up a dirt embankment in Eldorado National Forest, where last year the Caldor Fire scorched 221,835 acres.
With caps of velvety dark ribs and marbling beige-pitted surfaces, morels grow in mixed conifer forests.There are various theories on why morels sprout after a fire, though the exact cause remains a mystery. Someit could have something to do with changes in the soil or the lack of competition from other organisms after a fire, while others believe the shifting availability of food and nutrients is responsible.
“Whether you find them can really depend on the weather, like if there’s been rain and snow melt to trigger them,” he said. “You basically follow the snow melt up the side of the mountain. Look for trees that still have canopy and understory.” This spring, the trio have already picked pounds of morels. It’s a small reward for the stress and chaos of living through the Caldor Fire. With that experience, Stanton offered some advice for anyone evacuating from a wildfire.
Commercial and recreational mushroom hunters from around the state descend on California burn scars in search of these prized fungi., an online resource for those monitoring wildfires. She had a lot of context, as her father had been a wildland fighter and a smokejumper in the late ’60s, and there was a dispatch radio in her house growing up.
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