Hunting Morels in Southeast Nebraska

When I first moved up to southeast Nebraska, I thought I had a pretty good handle on the outdoors. I had chased deer through hardwood bottoms, listened for gobblers at daylight, and spent plenty of mornings with a fishing rod in my hand. I figured the woods were the woods no matter where you went.

Then somebody mentioned morel mushroom hunting.

Now where I come from in the South, people pick mushroo…