First Nations in the Cariboo will be monitoring this year’s harvest of a prized mushroom that grows after wildfires..
The Southern Dakelh Nation Alliance is implementing its SDNA Morel Harvest Program which aims to minimize impacts on sensitive ecosystems and cultural areas as well as increase public safety.
Pickers and buyers in certain wildfire areas can receive safety and educational materials, basic camp services, such as portable toilets, and large, animal-proof waste bins.
Pickers can expect to see stewardship guardians monitoring the impacts of the commercial mushroom harvest in permitted areas.
The B.C. government has closed specific areas to mushroom harvesting activities from July 8 to Aug. 31, 2019 as part of recovery efforts from last year’s wildfire season.
