Chanterelles & Shipping
By Ellen Jacobson My Lake Tahoe brother, Jim, called me a few weeks ago and said he had just received a very large box of mushrooms via Fed Ex from…
Thirty plus Years of Mushroom Poisoning
A Summary of the Approximately 2,000 Reports in the NAMA Case Registry By Michael W. Beug, Marilyn Shaw, and Kenneth W. Cochran Dr.. Trestrail compares numbers of mushroom toxic exposures reported to…
1st Place - Mika Kodama-Douglas
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,…
Cleansing Agent? Try Mushrooms
From: Center of Faculty Development, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Downtown Denver Newsletter: Latitude Winter 2006 If Marc Donskyʼs research findings are any indication, contaminated soils…
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…
Ellen! Don't eat that!
Buena Vista King Boletus Festival
By Ellen Jacobson The Buena Vista King Boletus Festival was started 12 years ago by a local resident, Jim Sanford, who never took "no" for an answer. He first contacted…
Fancy fungus fetches $160,406
From Rocky Mountain News, 11-15-06, by-line Associated Press. HONG KONG --- A Hong Kong property tycoon and his wife reportedly paid $160,406 for a huge Italian white truffle, which may be the…
Crested Butte Wild Mushroom Festival | Putting the Fun Back in Fungi
by Bernie Seward Mark your calendars for the Crested Butte Wild Mushroom Festival which will be held Thursday-Sunday, August 16-19, 2007. Each year the Festival takes place in the picturesque…
Adopt a Mushroom
by Ellen Jacobson I would like to form small groups for the study of some of the genera of Colorado fungi. Many species have been poorly studied and documented and…