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URL:https://cmsweb.org/events/larry-evans-bolivia-trip-recap/
SUMMARY:Larry Evans - Mushrooms of the Bolivian Amazon
DESCRIPTION:Larry has been visiting the Bolivian Amazon since 2005\, and hi
 s various expeditions have placed some 1500 specimens in the national Herb
 arium in CotaCota. Larry will present a few dozen examples of the remarkab
 le diversity of polypores\, Cordyceps\, endobionts\, and other jungle life
  forms with 4\, 6\, or more legs...\n\nSpeaker Bio\n\nLarry Evans\, aka Th
 e Fungal Boogieman\, has taught mycology since you had to explain what tha
 t is. He’s authored dozens of articles\, notably\, “Soil Carbon and Yo
 u”\, and appears frequently in radio and podcast interviews. His YouTube
  channel Fungal Jungal samples his adventures in Russia\, Asia\, and North
  and South America\; after 15 years of visiting and nearly 2\,000 collecti
 ons placed in the Bolivia National Herbarium\, he wrote a Field Guide to T
 ropical Amazon Mushrooms\, republished this year in Spanish.\n\nIn 1991 La
 rry co-founded the Western Montana Mycological Association and he has been
  instrumental in organizing festivals and forays around Colorado and the P
 acific Northwest since. In 1997 he began operating the Black Dog Cafe\, an
 d in 2001 he became the first approved commercial mushroom vendor in Monta
 na.\n\n\nAn American diplomat dubbed him the Indiana Jones of mushrooms af
 ter an encounter in a taxi in Khabarovsk when he was there buying nontimbe
 r forest products. He spent 5 years furthering remediation agendas in Ecua
 dor and has developed myco-remediation projects with Amazon (CoRenewal) an
 d Garden City Compost. He wrote and produced 2 CDs of mushroom music\; Fun
 gal Boogie and Fungal Boogieman\, and was featured in his Telluride Mushro
 om Festival role in Ron Mann’s 2009 come-documentary\, Know Your Mushroo
 ms.\n\nMeeting Schedule:\n7:00 - 7:30 Socializing\, show and tell\, and ha
 ngout time\n7:30 - 9:00 Presentation\n\nZoom Stream:\nhttps://us02web.zoom
 .us/j/89591461031?pwd=doNDPUTfMaBVMB17ETaFRniKXogBzT.1
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LOCATION:Sturm Auditorium - Denver Botanic Gardens\, 1085 York St\, Denver\
 , CO\, 80206\, United States
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