The Problem With Mushroom People
- Guest post by 2019 member Alyssa Hartson There are two types of people in this world- Those who hunt mushrooms and those who do not. The likelihood of…
Understanding winter mushrooms 101
The term “winter mushrooms” sounds like an oxymoron to most people and for the most part, they are correct. But if you’re “in the know” this is not always the…
Aleuria aurantia - Photo by Jon Sommer
Happy Hunting Tip | August 2018
Happy Hunting Tip By Karen Ryan It’s time to gather your hunting/guides and id keys. Unlike plants, mushrooms and other fungi don’t produce their food from sunlight. Instead, they feed…
The Next Big Thing In Mycology | How To Play Your Role
ASSEMBLING A NORTH AMERICAN MYCOFLORA Speaker: Stephen Russell (Purdue University) Despite over 200 years of mycological progress, few regions have up-to-date surveys of the macrofungi (mushrooms) that occur in their…
Mushroom Of The Month | Morchella
Morchella! April is often a good month for morels in Colorado. There are many different species of morels, and likely many more yet unidentified. The family Morchellaceae includes the genus…
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2006: A Banner Year for Rocky Mountain Mushrooms
By Debbie Viess Reprinted with permission from “Mushroom, The Journal of Wild Mushrooming”, Winter 2007, pp. 17-19. Ms. Viessʼ essay originally appeared Aug. 26-29, 2006, on the BAMS online discussion group, bayareamushrooms@yahoogroups.com. Last week,…
BRING EM BACK ALIVE!
By Vera Evenson, Curator RosaLee Brace, Volunteer Some suggestions for collecting mushrooms for further study and identification from the Herbarium of Fungi at the Denver Botanic Gardens. When you find…
Morel Marauding Motorcyclist’s
By William Windsor There were three of them. They wore leather and ballistic nylon garments reinforced with strategically placed body armor. Mounting their motorcycles they fired up their machines in…