At times there is some money to be made foraging for forest fungi, but with popular demand and the influx of undocumented workers flooding the market place with low ball picking skills in organized crews, who strip the forest of all that is marketable in tax free money.
Along with Mushrooms, they take Bear grasses, wild berries, fir cones, tree boughs and native plants stripped from the ground in no regard to the forest faunas future - 90% of this is done illegally with out permits by the organized undocumented nomadic stripper crews, who go from state to state leaving a waste land of forest recovery with poor uneducated harvesting techniques that damage the forests ecosystem, that takes years to recover, very near the same principles as a clear cut would.
The mindless invention - CASH and TREASURES narrated by Kirsten Gum a stupid TV show that airs on the Travel channel and or History channels who portrays wild mushrooms as a gold rush of free money in the woods, just waiting to be plucked for riches -- not the case folks, most of it is lies, she has no clue what she is saying or doing nor has the skills in making a fortune as she claims is possible with any of her travels.
Her one show that aired about Chris Matherley and MORELS, was such a joke, she and Chris made it sound like everyone for months on end were getting $20.00 a LB for their mushrooms or more the entire season. This is completely false info and the market dose not function this way.
When the morels first start popping the price is high and demand is high but as soon as the crews come in... the prices plumet to super lows and jump around at $3.00 to $6.00 a lb. or even lower, hardly worth the gas to look, let alone make that profit, and she insists one can make big CASH profits, very few make it and survive in this market of mushrooms.
Now I hear that they want to do a second series about NW MORELS and expose all our patches to new comers, if there wasn't already enough pressure and trash in the woods ( Beer Cans, Pop Bottles and now the crazed Energy Drink Plastic Bottles and Cans ) ( EveryWhere in the Community patches ) - heres a way to add more insult to the injury for a couple morons fame.
Me on the other hand IM not in it for profit and never have been a commercial picker, I am a recreational picker for food only, as my mother, grand mother and great grandmother taught me to pick berries and wild mushrooms from the forests to help sustain our freezer and dry foods for the colder leaner months when things didn't grow and helped stretch our dollar so our family could eat.
5 generations later I still try to supplement my family's diet and teach my Daughter with this source of forest foods, not as an income but as a staple, and with all the Travel Channels publicity from Chris and Kirsten, I see an influx of uneducated retards wrecking the NW forests.
Obviously Kristen Gum nor Chris Matherly or the travel / History channels watched this video of TC from Canada about his CASH N TREASURE in the Mushroom World.
Video link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z0AD6FwW-8
Im sorry but I see this as over exposure of the NW forests and exploiting the ways of the NW people, Through Chris Matherley only to invite 10s of 1000s of new inexperienced pickers who will disrespect the locals and the landscape.
Also
IM still a bit PEEVED from winning Chris Matherleys 2007 photo contest and He FAILED to produce to me all the winnings I was supposed to recieve and did not get, as posted on his website. I got 1/2 the reported treasures.........
NO BIG DEAL !!!!!!
Just dont have room for people who LIE or take advantage of other peoples services and not comply with what they post on their websites as credits earned for a contest.
Hope the other rummors about Chris are not true but my guess is - they are true!
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