Morel Hunting: How to Find, Preserve, Care for, and Prepare the Wild Mushrooms

Gave me new insight in hunting, cleaning and preservation

Last year my family and I became addicted to this sport and have been anxiously awaiting spring. While trying to learn as much as we can in preparation for the season, we came across this newly released book. I recieved it yesterday, and armed with a pink highlighter I spend several hours poring through this practical guide, reading and marking it into the late night.The authors are mushroom "chasers" (people who follow mushrooms north as the season progresses)from the midwest, seasoned guides who conduct seminars, teachers of classes on the subject and clearly experts in their field. This book was exactly what I needed, answering many questions I have had regarding picking locations which are likely to host morels, providing suggestions and information about hunting on public land, and efficient methodologies to utilize on the hunt. Consise information regarding timing, the order in which the different types of Morels appear, along with specific information regarding where you will most likely find each variety is invaluable. Additionally, great descriptions and tips to identify trees, had me unconscientously scoping out possible locations while I was out and about this moring. Information about simple drying and storage methods and a handful of recipes help to round out this book. This book is packed with tips and information for the novice like me, but I bet that even the most seasoned hunter stands to learn a lot.

I read this book in one sitting and I must say- I was a complete Morel hunting noob.This book easily goes over temperatures to look for specific types of Morels, what regions to look for Morels, the migrating pattern of the Morel, and odd behaviors which were encountered when the author hunted for them.Cites several other people, their work, and how it has affected them. I also read "Morel" the book, and must say that Morel Hunting was much more practical.The tree identifying section is particularly useful as it shows good trees and bad trees. However, there isn't enough information to readily identify all of the trees mentioned but a little research on trees can clear that right up. The information presented is what a guru mushroom hunter will tell you when you ask how to find Morels. Of course they'll never reveal their "spot" but that's common sense.Good luck and happy hunting!

No secrets in this book, and nothing you can't read or learn for free on web. I thought it would contain some insight instead of the same vagueness you could get from the web. Some recipies included. Not a bad book, just not anything that stands out either.

I think a learned more about hunting morels from this little book than any mushroom book I have read and I’ve read several. Highly recommended .

very good book live in Michigan have had some success over the years since I started hunting but wanted to learn more to hopefully be able to target some areas that have a better chance of holding mushrooms rather than just wandering around the woods looking around for them.

This is a pretty good book. For the people that's just getting started in morel hunting this book would be great for you. For the more advance morel hunters I would say you know everything in this book already.

I felt like I was re-reading the same major points over and over and over again. Was not thrilled to impressed overall.

This is a fairly good guide for finding morel mushrooms. Some people might want more detail and more scientific sounding language but honestly the book covers just about everything you really need to know about picking morels for yourself.

Great book enthusiastically written