Do burns seem to produce Morels the next year? Or do you have to wait a few years after the burn?

I have heard that it is the season after a burn for greatest productivity. I have an additional question: in burned areas, how picky are the morels about the soil and types of trees that existed before the burn? For example, if the burned area is scrubby brush, jack pine, and sandy soil, will you still see morels there?

I have heard that the morels grow in burned areas the folowing year after the burn. I have also heard that the burned areas out west produce the best.

If some one reading this knows the answer to these questions, i hope s/he posts, as i'm also wondering the same things.
Thank you.

When I elk hunted in Montana they said they always hunt the burn areas the first year after with great luck.

Okay if it good the year after the burn. Does it produce good for many years?.We have many fresh burns around us. The DNR do a lot of control burns. One right by my house. I went out looking only one day as our nights are still getting down to 26 degrees.

There are as many factors involved with burn morels as there are with regular.

A late summer burn seems to be the best as no regrowth occurs before winter. This either keeps the nutrients for the mushroom, or just makes them real easy to see due to no other growth getting in the way. Likely both. Earlier burns produce as well, but not as good. Yea you can go back to a burn for many years with decreasing yeild.

Hot fires are better then cold (since it is easier to find a cold spot in a hot burn, then a hot spot in a cold one). Areas with neddles on the ground and tops remaining on the trees (rather then compleetely burnt) often does better then areas fully burnt -though one of my best finds ever was in an area where the trees were burnt to a thin (arms thinkness), super strong core.

Loose soils are better then packed.

A mature burnt forest is better then a new, or shrubby or recently reburnt one.

Part of the natural cycle of a boreal forest is fires. The summer isn't long enough to provide the decomposition required to keep the forest alive. Pine trees in the north are know to survive multiple fires in thier life.

I've only heard of large quantities coming from the west and north. Maybe it is due to soil or trees or perhaps its just the size of the forests that burn...Far enough north, you don't even need rain (if your in areas of permafrost) for a good crop of morels.

The Ontario government has conducted experimental controlled burns and in south/cental Chile, I was told that land owners control burn thier forests for the $$ that morels can bring in.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Was very informative.