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Tombigbee NF Foraging Conditions — ForageIQ

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Tombigbee NF

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Tombigbee NF in northeast MS — Choctaw and Ackerman ranger districts across rolling oak-hickory and shortleaf pine uplands. Davis Lake, Choctaw Lake, and Natchez Trace corridor for access. Spring morels in tulip poplar flats and dying elm bottoms; chanterelles and chicken-of-the-woods in summer oak woodlands. Similar habitat to Bankhead but without the sandstone gorges.

Trees:White Oak Shortleaf Pine Hickory

Updated May 29, 4:18 AM MT

AI Conditions Report

AI-generated · verify in field

**Tombigbee NF hits S-tier because soil temps have locked in at 76°F for a full week with 4+ inches of recent rain and zero drought stress—this is prime fruiting window.** The moisture trigger fires across the board: oysters, wine caps, dryad's saddles, all the polypores, jelly ears, and the inkcaps are live right now. Wood-decayers (oysters, wine caps, dryad's saddles, aspen oysters) will fruit fastest given the sustained warmth and humidity. The only real check is moderate desiccation risk—you're in a narrow window before May heat and June dry-down compress the season, so collections need to happen in the next 5–7 days before soil VWC drops. Watch for afternoon drying; early morning foraging will catch the best flushes before evaporation picks up. Hot tip: Hit the low-lying seeps and riparian corridors where wood stays wet longer; dryad's saddles and oyster clusters will still be prime there when upland patches start fading.

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 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wine Cap

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Turkey Tail

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dryad's Saddle

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Witch's Butter

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Jelly Ear

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Dead Man's Fingers

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fairy Ring Champignon

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Artist's Conk

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Birch Polypore

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Tinder Fungus

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Devil's Urn

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Mica Cap

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fool's Mushroom

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Fairy Inkcap

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Red-Belted Conk

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Thin-Walled Maze Polypore

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Mossy Maze Polypore

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

False Turkey Tail

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Half-Free Morel

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Snow Fungus

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wood Ear

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Black Cup

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Green Elfcup

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Aspen Oyster

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Wolf's Milk Slime

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

King Alfred's Cakes

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Oak Mazegill

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — moisture sustained)

HIGHPrimed

Golden Teacher

All conditions met (soil 76°F, sustained 7/7 days above threshold, today 0.35 VWC, 7d avg 0.35 — 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.