CMS Group Foray — Friday October 29th, 2010
Correction: The meeting location needs to be moved since the high school parking lot is in use during the week. The new location is at the parking lot at the Springfield Depot at “A” St. and South 2nd at 9:00 AM.
Our final foray before the Mt. Pisgah Mushroom Festival will be happening this Friday. We’ll be collecting specimens for display at the show as well as for personal use. Will you be the one to collect the prize winning specimen for the festival?
This will be in the Willamette National Forest. For personal collection, a free permit is required and is available at Willamette ranger stations one of which is in Springfield. More information on permits is available on the Willamette NFS website.
Forays are limited to CMS members (and friends) only. You can become a member on Friday to join us!
CMS Group Foray — Sunday October 24th, 2010
NOTE: The Saturday foray has been cancelled, we will only have one on Sunday this weekend. We apologize for the change in schedule.
We plan on visiting the Coast Range in some BLM areas. No permit is required for small quantities of mushroom collection. We will be hunting for edibles as well as collecting for the upcoming Mt. Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival, only week after the foray!
Forays are limited to CMS members (and friends) only. You can become a member on Sunday to join us!
Meet at the South Eugene High School by 8:45 for introductions and directions. We will leave at 9:00am sharp.
Drift Creek Fall Mushroom Retreat — October 23rd, 2010
Here is another opportunity for exploring our state and learning about mushrooms.
Join Friends of Straub Environmental Learning Center at the Drift Creek Camp for a one-day
mushrooming retreat with a mushroom expert on Saturday, October 23, from 10:00-4:00. Participants
will learn to identify and collect a variety of local mushrooms, and will have the opportunity to enjoy
dinner (optional) as well as the option for an overnight stay in Drift Creek Lodge. The basic class is
$15/adult and $10/child (4-11). The optional dinner is an additional $10/adult and $5/child, and the
overnight stay is $20/adult and $10/child. Breakfast is also optional. All meals are contingent upon
having the minimum number of participants.
More information here.
29th Annual Mt. Pisgah Arboretum’s Mushroom Festival & Plant Sale — Sunday October 31, 2010
29th Annual Mt. Pisgah Arboretum’s Mushroom Festival & Plant Sale
October 31, 2010, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m
Cascade Mycological Society co-sponsors this spectacular celebration with Mt. Pisgah Arboretum and Lane Community College. CMS volunteers collect, identify and organize 300-350 species of mushrooms in a stunning display of colors, shapes, and sizes. Bring mushroom specimens to have identified at our “Ask an Expert” booth at the show. Visit our “Edible, Poisonous and Lookalikes” display to learn about some mushroom species to enjoy and some others to avoid! And don’t forget to visit the CMS booth, where t-shirts and other goodies will be for sale.
There is something for everyone at the mushroom festival, including hayrides, cider pressing, wine tasting, scarecrow contest, plant sale, craft sale, children’s activities, music, and raffle. Visitors can also take guided tours of the Arboretum to learn about the area’s ecology and history. To learn more, visit MPA’s website.
CMS Welcomes Taylor Lockwood for “Mushrooms of America” — Friday, Oct. 29th 2010
A presentation by Taylor Lockwood, October 29th at LCC Forum Auditorium, Bldg. 17, Room 308.
Taylor Lockwood has been traveling all around the world and now he is going to be in Eugene on October 29th 2010 to present his new video, “Mushrooms of America.” It is a mycological mushroom romp around the country. There will be time at the end for your questions.
In his latest DVD Taylor takes the best of ten years of his videos and weaves them with imagination, humor, and science into a travelogue, people log, and mycolog that is as entertaining as it is informative.
“Mushrooms of America” features some of the wildest, weirdest, and most wonderful mushrooms and mushroom hunters in North America. Travel with Taylor from Florida to Nova Scotia to Washington State to California and many parts in-between.
Seen through the eye of Taylor’s camera mushrooms provide a delicious display of form, texture, and color unlike anything you have seen in most books or videos. He includes mushrooms that have shapes that defy description.
Location: LCC Forum Auditorium, Bldg. 17, Room 308
Time: Friday, Oct. 29th, 7 PM
Cost: Suggested donation $5-10
General Meeting — Thursday October 14th, 2010
David Rust will present an Introduction to Wild and Edible Mushrooms, which will include mushroom basics, their role in ecology, how most people view the difference between cultivated and wild fungi, mushroom preparation and cooking techniques, and how to avoid eating poisonous mushrooms.
David is co-founder of the Bay Area Mycological Society. He has helped organize three All California Club Forays, coordinates the mycoblitz cooperative science forays at Point Reyes National Seashore, and is participating in the fungal survey at Yosemite National Park. His area of special concern is the devastating forest pathogen Phytophthora ramorum, which causes the disease known as Sudden Oak Death. David is a past president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. David is Region 11 Trustee and webmaster of the North American Mycological Association (NAMA).
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene