A true lover of the state will believe the primary function of the state is to create monopolies and then protect them. Think of all the licensing schemes they come up with.
The US Forest Service sells permits to pick certain mushrooms in the Oregon Dunes National Recrestion Area. They’re valuable ‘shrooms, so people are out looking. Also, there are magic mushrooms growing. State police had a command center set up, and drone operators out patrolling the woods. A friend’s daughter said a friend of hers was out picking mushrooms and a State cop wearing a ghillie suit dropped down out of a tree and landed beside her.