With many thanks to the park rangers, because if we have learned anything from history, it is that humans will eat anything to extinction, unless they are controlled.

With interesting comments, and mostly all agree what a waste it is to destroy them.  Why isn't a small baggie full, and a few photos, plus their total weight, good enough for evidence?   These should go to soup kitchens for the homeless, or marketed and the money used for a good--wait, first the spores they contain should be sifted out, and replanted-by those pickers, or the rangers when not busy.

The 'morel' of this story today, comes via press release from the Crater Lake National Park rules bible--the NOT GOOD NEWS edition:
"The earth is the government's, and the fullness thereof"