>>2502449Literally 99.3% of you westoids are posting on /out/ from the dead center of the most populous areas of the west coast, the ones that show up an angry red color on the population density heat map of the US. Nor are any of you anywhere near the old-growth forest you're referring to; and I doubt you'd recognize it without Google to tell you where it is.
I, on the other hand, live in one of the least population-dense regions of the east coast, right down the road from the old-growth portion of Jefferson National Forest.
It's not the statistical data of your entire half of the country that counts. It's the facts on the ground where you actually live that matters.
>>2505221I'm glad to see you here, because superior mycological opportunities and foraging are an easily overlooked, but vital advantage the east coast definitely has over the west. I usually never bring it up, though, because I'm not a shroom hunter myself. Some of my buddies are, though.