Walkout Unites Mushroom Pickers ; Low Matsutake Prices Prompt a Strike at a National Forest in Oregon
The Columbian › October 03, 2004
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CRESCENT JUNCTION, Ore. - Matsutake mushrooms were a fast fortune once for the many Southeast Asian immigrants who prowled the pine forests of the Oregon Cascades for the beige-white fungi.
In the early 1990s the price went crazy, at times topping $500 a pound for sale fresh to a voracious market in Japan.See the full content of this document
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Walkout Unites Mushroom Pickers ; Low Matsutake Prices Prompt a Strike at a National Forest in Oregon
That didn't last, but in early September, when the pickers moved into the camps for the two-month season, the price was still $28...
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