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Each fall, a few weeks after the first rains, the forest floor of Mendocino County becomes a mushroom hunters paradise. The entire county produces mushrooms, but the Mendocino coast is home to the most variety and abundance of fungi species. The coast also has the longest mushroom season due to its mild climate. The biggest attraction for mushroom hunters to the coast is Jackson State Demonstration Forest, a 50,000+ swath of public Redwood forest, where mushroom hunting is actually legal (with a $20 permit through Cal-Fire.)
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Mushroom picking is one of the only truly sustainable types of foraging. There is no such thing as over picking a mushroom patch, as long as you leave some for the animals and insects who depend on them. This is the main reason I, a lifelong local mushroom picker, encourage visitors to try it. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of mycelium; an underground network of root like fibers that have a symbiotic relationship with trees and other plant species. Picking mushrooms helps spread their spores to other areas of the forest.
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As long as we don’t compact the soil, scrape away the duff layer, or kill its host tree, a mushroom will come back year after year. I have never lost a mushroom patch to over picking, but I have lost countless ones to logging. We all hope that as mushroom hunting and other foraging become more popular, it will inspire people to fall in love with the forest, and be more likely to try and save it.
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