In the middle of a Colorado fir-spruce forest ravaged by wildfire, Andy Better crouches to inspect an abundance of burn morels that have sprouted in a clearing. The morels are grayish-brown in color, ...

There is a place I know, way back in the woods on a trout stream I sometimes fish, that is carpeted with leeks each spring. Or used to be, anyway. I haven’t been back up there in quite a while. It was ...