Idaho Foraging Calendar

Northern Idaho's transition zone into the Palouse and Clearwater country with forested canyons and ridges producing mushrooms and berries in the mixed conifer and ponderosa pine habitat.

Southern Idaho's high desert margins, with sagebrush steppe and canyon rims carrying serviceberries, chokecherries, and rose hips along the water courses.

The Lewiston area and Clearwater River canyon where the Columbia Plateau reaches into Idaho, with serviceberries, bitterroot, and camas in remnant native grasslands on the canyon benchlands.

Northern Idaho's remote mountain forests with prolific huckleberry meadows, golden chanterelles and king boletes in old-growth stands, and remarkable morel flushes in post-fire recovering forest.

Eastern Idaho's mountains bordering Yellowstone, where post-fire morels, huckleberries, and whitebark pine nuts come from the high country and serviceberries fill the valleys.

The Bear River Range of far southeastern Idaho, with conifer-forest boletes and chanterelles and abundant chokecherries and currants along the mountain streams.

The Snake River corridor's cottonwood and willow riparian zones with spring morels, chokecherries, elderberries, and serviceberries along the river, in sharp contrast to the surrounding volcanic sagebrush steppe.