March 2010 Newsletter

Next Meeting March 8th, 2010 President’s Column March 2010 Topic for the March meeting The first meeting of 2010 kicks off the year with double feature; we’ll start with a…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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