You might actually find a morel mushroom this year.

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By Lynda Wheatley | May 9, 2020

So the world is facing a cataclysmic health and economic emergency. But you know what else? The conditions for finding morel mushrooms have never been better. 1) Spring temperatures are rising. (We think. We’ve been wrong 19 times since March began.) 2) For the first time in decades, you probably don’t have much on your May agenda more pressing than “wander around the woods for several hours.” 3) The Michigan DNR has a map, latitude and longitude coordinates included, that shows all the state land that underwent a prescribed burn in 2019, and it just so happens those funky little famous mushrooms love areas where sizeable fires (10+ acres) occurred the previous year — preferably those that had been covered by a pre-fire forest of jack, red, or white pines. Search “Wildfire and prescribed burn locations 2019” at midnr.maps.arcgis.com. You’re welcome.