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Lost Pines / Bastrop Foraging Conditions — ForageIQ

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Lost Pines / Bastrop

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The Lost Pines — a loblolly pine island stranded ~100 miles west of the main East Texas Pineywoods, centered on Bastrop and Buescher State Parks near Austin. Pine-oak sandhills over the Carrizo aquifer hold chanterelles and boletes through summer, with oysters and chicken-of-the-woods on hardwood drainages, and the forest is recovering well from the 2011 wildfire. Dung-loving Psilocybe cubensis and Panaeolus species fruit in the adjacent cattle country.

Updated Jun 17, 4:24 AM MT

AI Conditions Report

AI-generated · verify in field

**Lost Pines S-Tier Breakdown (June 17, 2026)** Lost Pines is firing across the board—S-tier is earned here. You've got sustained soil warmth (81°F, pegged above threshold for a full week), solid volumetric water content (0.30 VWC 7-day average), and 4+ inches of rain in the last 7 days with zero drought stress. That's the holy trinity. Chanterelles, Chicken of the Woods, Wine Caps, and the woody decomposer suite (Turkey Tail, Artist's Conk, False Turkey Tail) are all in prime fruiting window. Even the niche players—Dryad's Saddle, Crown-Tipped Coral, the various polypores—have green lights across the board. The only governor is moderate desiccation risk: you're in early summer heat, so fruiting windows compress. Ephemeral ink caps and soft jelly fungi will abort fast if they don't pin now. Bracket fungi and woody species have more runway. **Watch the next 48–72 hours.** Expect pin sets to translate to harvestable flushes by mid-week if today's moisture holds. Any rain spike lifts this even higher. After that, monitor soil temps—if you hit 85°F+ sustained without fresh precip, the desiccation brake tightens hard. **Hot tip:** Hit the dead wood (oaks, aspens, pines) *today or tomorrow* for Chicken and Oysters before the heat window closes—they'll fruit fast and collapse faster in the coming heat.

Generated by Claude (Anthropic) from the structured weather, soil, and phenology data on this page. The LLM can misread edge cases — treat this as a starting hypothesis, not a guarantee. Always verify conditions on the ground before committing to a long drive.

Foraging Potential95/100

✅Moisture

✅Soil Temp

✅No Freeze

✅No Drought

Precip 7d

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Viable Species

Confidence × Primordia state

HIGHPrimed

Oyster Mushroom

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Chanterelle

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Chicken of the Woods

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wine Cap

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Turkey Tail

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dryad's Saddle

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Witch's Butter

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Crown-Tipped Coral

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Jelly Ear

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dead Man's Fingers

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Parasol Mushroom

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fairy Ring Champignon

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Artist's Conk

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Birch Polypore

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Tinder Fungus

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Bird's Nest Fungus

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Cinnabar Chanterelle

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Mica Cap

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Two-Colored Bolete

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Smooth Chanterelle

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fool's Mushroom

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Alcohol Inky

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fairy Inkcap

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Red-Belted Conk

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Thin-Walled Maze Polypore

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Mossy Maze Polypore

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

False Turkey Tail

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Snow Fungus

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wood Ear

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Green Elfcup

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Aspen Oyster

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wolf's Milk Slime

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dog Vomit Slime Mold

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fluted Bird's Nest

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

King Alfred's Cakes

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dung Bird's Nest

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Oak Mazegill

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Golden Teacher

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Blue Meanies

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dune Stinkhorn

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Elegant Stinkhorn

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Banded Mottlegill

All conditions met (soil 81°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.32 VWC, 7d avg 0.30 — moisture sustained)

Primordia readiness: Cold = mycelium dormant. Activating = soil warming, primordia building. Primed = 5+ sustained warm days at species threshold; fruiting imminent if moisture cooperates. Based on Schmidt 1983 / Mihail 2007.