I live in northern michigan and everyone is finding morels. I have looked every where. Even in my hot spots and still nothing. Can anyone help me. I don't exactly know where they like to grow I just have the hot spots that where shown to me. I am really getting frusterated I've looked for weekes now and I am about to give up. Please help me.

Hi,
It's got to be warm days (cool evenings are OK), preferbly over 60 degrees and the next day after a rain is when they pop up.
I look for dead "standing" trees and hope it's an Ash or elm and they will usually be preferably on the outside edge of the woods and sometimes in the deep woods on the ground, around the dead tree mixed with vegetation and May Apples nearby.
hope this helps, Brian

this week some apple trees have had just gorgeous whites under them.

we just found our first ones down here in Caro. The Thumb area.
Good lick

I find 90% of my morels near ash trees--most right next to the trunk, but some further removed. Look up in the tree-tops. The ash is one of the latest to leaf out. The bark is shaped like the rocky mountains--v-shaped vertical lines. I found a few this morning, but a bagfull on Friday. I live near Petoskey.

This year I have picked 11 pounds of both black and whites. The blacks "hide", they do not stand up to be clearly seen,the are tucked under leaves & branches,they are prevelent in Poplar woods with some oak and maple mixed in. The white morel likes oak and ash trees. Is there a mushroom club in your area? If so join it and learn to pick more than morels. The Michigan Mushroom Hunters Association is very generous with their knowledge,check out their website.