So, in their infinite wisdom, the Minnesota DNR is considering a limit on the amount of
"wild" mushrooms you can possess. They are considering a 1 gallon bag limit. Their reasoning, mushroom pickers are depriving the local wildlife of a critical food source... My God, these people are idiots!

They're eating bad mushrooms, a gallon per day???They need to rethink a lot of things.Let people enjoy the outdoors other than regulating everything.

Its true have seen the story a few times on the news channels we are over harvesting is what I hear.

I thought that was just on state park land...NO?

The MN DNR (and much of the other parts of MN Govt) are high stepping to catch up to California in any way they can. Soon it will be illegal to kill a fish and eat it. Some of the limits are almost there as is.

It was a challenge to pick the papinki before the deer got them in the fall. Sounds like another idiot that thinks all the resources belong to the state.

That is correct Calvin. The proposal is for state parks.

I believe they are considering limiting blueberries and other berries as well

You are kidding, right? Next thing they will make it catch and release only on mushrooms and berries.

https://kstp.com/fuel/possible-mushroom-foraging-restrictions/

Absolutely insane.

Let them go- let them grow...

I have more than a gallon's worth of dingleberries they can have. They have to pick them with their teeth though.

It's getting really sickening what MN D.N.R. comes up with.

So now the CO’s (cop wannabe's) will have something very productive to do.

Trying to limit foraging?? So that you become dependent elsewhere for food?? Like the government?? Control the food, control the masses.

The state doesn't want anyone to benefit from any natural resource in any way.

To many yuppies in control

I have been saying this for years.

It is only a matter of time before they will require us to buy a $20 berry permit and a $30 mushroom permit.

I've said it many times. The state bird is the loon. Make the state insect the wood tick.
Then it could be appropriately named, the loon-a-tick state.

Like everything else, it's about money.

Sad as it is, there are areas here in MI where folks go through known mushroom areas on public land like locusts and then sell them. If you're picking for your own supply, that's great, but hiring a crew of dozens of folks to pick acres clean so they can be sold online or at local farm markets is a different story.

That said, govt overreach is ridiculous anymore and in most areas 99% of mushrooms are untouched, so I'm kind of a fence sitter on the issue.