Forester Russ Richardson says if you've been having a hard time finding morels, check those old pear trees.

"Often, many local people head out to abandoned apple orchards looking for morels when they might have a decent mess as close as their local pear tree," he said, but then they sprout all over the Calhoun forest.

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