State foraging calendar

Nebraska Foraging Calendar

Nebraska's foraging is concentrated in the river corridors, particularly the Platte, Loup, and Niobrara rivers, where cottonwood bottomlands create linear forests across the open prairie that support spring morels and a full suite of Great Plains wild fruits. The Sandhills of north-central Nebraska are a distinctive and underappreciated foraging landscape, with native prairie plants including prairie turnip, wild onion, and a variety of native berries surviving in the most intact grassland ecosystem remaining east of the Rockies. Eastern Nebraska's Loess Hills and the forested Missouri River bluffs share the foraging character of Iowa and Missouri, with pawpaws, black walnuts, and elderberries in the river-bottom hardwoods. The Pine Ridge country of the northwest, where ponderosa forest extends onto the northern High Plains, offers a completely different western species set.

3 bioregions across Nebraska