Birch is definitely the symbol for the north all 3 species of mushrooms on the birch are amazing 👍👍🙏🏻

Really enjoy watching your videos, very informative, a need to know in the times we are living in. Thank you so much for your effort and time. You seem to enjoy your craft, and that's always a good thing-❤😁🎯💯🔥☘️👍

Thank you. I'm located in Eastern Wa, and Birch is as rare as Chaga in my area. I found a secluded cove with several dozen Birch, and obviously you recognize the importance and majesty of the species. Anyone that practices bushcraft (including myself) has an incredibly high appreciation for the species. They're loaded with horse hoof, and every video I had watched claimed they were polypore. I couldn't figure out what exactly they were, until stumbling across your video. Absolutely perfect for me because I practice primitive bushcraft, and a tinder fungus is right up my alley. Appreciate it very much. There's also some small black, bulbs/mushrooms on the Birch. Everything I've viewed claims their Alfreds cakes, but we don't not have those in Wa. Any idea what they are off of the top of your head? I have a feeling they're a fungus related to fire, because they're primarily on the trees that were slightly effected by one of our recent forest fires. They're jet black bulbs. Everyone online in the social media fungus groups claim their cakes, until they learn they're not native to my location. Congrats, I've literally *NEVER* viewed a video with zero dislikes. It really shows the quality of your content.

Can I like this a hundred times?

Thanks

wow- seven hours!! that's incredible. What a wonder. "I'm not early man." sweet!

This was a very interesting and informative video ... Learn something new, even if I've pushed in the Bush for many years.

hi there from cape Breton novascotia Canada! so wonderful your video!I am truly grateful and soooo blown away at your absolute respectfulness and dignified treatment of the forest and its medicines and foods.you are a wonderful man thank you for teaching people true respectful wild harvesting .so many harvesting videos break my heart watching people greedily harvesting and over harvesting our forests with zero understanding of the difference between harvesting to supply their needs versus supplying their wants...big Dif...ive watched with horror ppl harvesting all chagainstead of less than HALF off trees and all mushrooms off the floors leaving none to repopulate or leaving none for other beings like animals and insects,who very much depend on these as their only food sources...I am so grateful wise ppl like you are willing to teach others wise and balanced foraging and take the time to do so thank you from the bottom of my heart.i will happily pass this video on to others ..

Surrounded by them on our property up here in Alaska.

What an amazing video and thank you very much indeed . Best regards from the 🇬🇧👍👍😀

Insightful. Thank you.

Great video Ive played with these mushrooms too we have birch trees all around us :) The old hoof fungi i had it stittng out with a coal from the fire After the coal burned into the pore surface of the mushroom it kept going without me Blowin on it anymore for about a half hr It was smoldering while it burned its way though the fungi but didn't burn through the harder outter shell I didn't leave it unattended Its a very useful tree Thanks for the video

Mount Veiw Cemetary, They used to have these Trees were growing there when I was so young... There were a couple across the road going up the hill across the pond. His name was Bob Lot why don't people understand; put back what you take ??? The Birch Tree I'm never Gonna Rest & my Natives are Rolling in their Grave !!! 🤔

Thank you for the lovely video. Found this so interesting and useful, especially that research is being done on birch polypore fungus for AIDS as well as the tea you can make from it to for the immune system. So awesome. Cheers to you.

Great job Walker !!!

Thank you! This was excellent!!!

Thank you Loved the video 👍🏽

This is a great video. Very informative. Thank You!

The birch tree: host to three forms of birch mushrooms. "carrying an ember in a" horse hoof fungus ( that's poetic); birch polypore, anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-inflammatory, immune booster, use skin as a bandaid; chaga, has a charred coffee grounds look on part of it, beautiful orangey pumpkin colour...I have enjoyed a lot of this tea. ( just taking some notes, while I watch.) I adore the white birch trees. There is crimson birch in the nearby experimental gardens, the first one I have seen and I am in love. Do you know if it too can host chaga? or anything interesting about it? Thanks very much for this pleasure.

Fascinating. Subscribed 🌷 How do you know all this?

I just made tea out of horse hoof fungus. Hopefully it helps me with my chronic disease and auto-immune issues.

Unless I missed it, you didn't mention that Birch polypore s ONLY grow on dead or dying Birch trees.

Hey man how’s it going, it was great meeting you last week at the river. I was wondering if I could send you a few photos to identify some mushrooms for me. I have lots of questions

I wonder if we have chaga on birches here in Southwestern Ontario? I thought they were only found in Canada more up North? But you are in Michigan and have some? If so i am incredibly excited to try and find some!!😊👏