State foraging calendar
Wyoming Foraging Calendar
Wyoming's foraging is dominated by two contrasting ecosystems: the mountain forests and meadows surrounding Yellowstone and the Wind River Range, and the high sagebrush steppe of the Wyoming Basin that occupies much of the state's interior. Post-fire morel hunting is a significant draw in Wyoming's lodgepole pine forests, where the increasing frequency of large fires has opened up vast new habitat in recent years. Serviceberries, chokecherries, and rose hips grow abundantly along mountain streams and in the draws cutting through the sagebrush lowlands. Wyoming's mostly public land ownership makes access relatively straightforward, though Yellowstone and Grand Teton prohibit plant collection.
6 bioregions across Wyoming
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Bioregions of Wyoming
Foraging seasons shift sharply between Wyoming's ecoregions. Pick the one nearest you for a 12-month calendar of what is in season.
Northern Great Plains
136 speciesEastern Wyoming's high plains and the Powder River Basin, where chokecherries, buffaloberries, wild plums, and serviceberries grow in the coulees and along the river breaks.
View calendar →Middle Rockies and Wyoming Basin
132 speciesWyoming's signature foraging landscape spanning the Yellowstone Plateau to the Wind River Range, with post-fire morels in recovering lodgepole stands, huckleberries in the high country, and abundant serviceberries and rose hips in the sagebrush basin corridors.
View calendar →Southern Rockies
130 speciesWyoming's Sierra Madre and Snowy Range in the south, where spruce-fir forests produce boletes and chanterelles and the lower slopes carry chokecherries, currants, and wild strawberries.
View calendar →High Plains
128 speciesEastern Wyoming's shortgrass prairie edge with wild onion, prairie turnip, and prickly pear in undisturbed native grassland remnants along the Wyoming-Nebraska border country.
View calendar →Wasatch and Uinta Mountains
114 speciesThe Uinta Mountains crossing into far southwestern Wyoming, with high conifer forests yielding boletes and chanterelles and streamside chokecherries and currants.
View calendar →Snake River Plain
93 speciesThe riparian cottonwood corridors of far western Wyoming near the Idaho border, with spring morels, chokecherries, elderberries, and serviceberries.
View calendar →Always confirm any wild edible with multiple sources and an experienced local guide before eating it. Many edible species have toxic look-alikes.