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BOYNE CITY -- Michigan is more than Great Lakes and great times.

It's also great mushrooms--at least for mavens of the morel.

May is morel season in the state and a tourism draw--the national Morel Mushroom Festival is underway in Boyne City, about 65 miles northeast of Traverse City.

Morel hunting is a family tradition, where do-it-yourself pickers scour woods for the mushroom that can only be found in the wild and has a short growing season.