Two Mushroom Excursions — Oct 21st - 23rd, November 4th-6th
Hemlock Ridge Excursions is offering two mushroom workshops this fall, a Cascades trip at Clear Lake Resort on October 21st-23rd, and a coast trip at Tugman State Park on November 4th-6th. These weekend workshops are hosted at beautiful sites selected for their proximity to great mushroom hunting locations. Participants are introduced to all aspects of “mushrooming” culture, from field identification techniques, family characteristics, wild edible harvesting, mushroom dyeing and cooking, and basic cultivation techniques.
Link below is a flyer with information on the dates and prices for the two weekend excursions:
For more information, see the Hemlock Ridge Excursions website
Yachats Village Mushroom Fest — October 21st - 23rd, 2011
Don’t miss the Keynote Speaker, David Arora, Friday, October 21!
Come savor autumn on the Oregon coast where the fun-guys go - to the Yachats Village Mushroom Fest! Enjoy wild forest mushroom cuisine, expert led mushroom walks, (many led by CMS members) talks and exhibits, culinary mushroom workshops, culinary mushroom markets, wine tasting, and live entertainment. Guided mushroom walks and exhibits are FREE and open to the public.
The Yachats Village Mushroom Fest is produced by the Yachats Area Chamber of Commerce and is generously supported by the Cape Perpetua Visitors Center and Scenic Area, Gerdemann Botanical Preserve, the Yachats Commons, the Yachats Ladies Club, Forest Ecologist Marla Gillham, OSU Faculty, Students and Alumni, Cascade Mycological Society, North American Truffling Society, Lincoln Co Mycological Society, Yachats area businesses, Yachats Farmers Market, area naturalists, and many culinary mushroom enthusiasts.
For more information please or call 1-800-929-0477, 541-547-3530. Or see the Website at http://yachats.org/MFest2011.html
Eugene REI — Fun in the Fungal Kingdom! — Thursday, October 20th
As the rains start here in Lane County, opportunities for fun and learning about mushrooms abound.
Two of our founding board members, Peg Boulay and Bruce Newhouse, will be leading a free workshop at REI from 7:00 - 8:00. Spots are limited, preregister at REI’s event site if you’re interested in attending.
Introductory Identification Class — Saturday October 22nd, 2011
Here is another opportunity to expand your fungal awareness:
On Saturday, October 22nd as a part of the Yachat’s Mushroom Festival, one of our CMS board members Joe Spivak will be teaching a workshop titled “Introduction to Mushroom Collecting and Identification”. In this workshop you will learn:
- About fungi in general and how they evolved along with plants and animals
- How, when, and where to collect wild mushrooms
- How to use a dichotomous key and other techniques for identifying toxic mushrooms and safe to eat edibles
Finally, a guided walk, led by one of our knowledgeable experts, will bring life to the material covered in the classroom.
$3 Materials Fee payable at registration. Limited to 50 participants. To Pre-register, please contact the Yachats Visitors Center: Email info@yachats.org, Tel 541-547-3530; 800-929-0477
Oakridge Hostel Weekend Foray — October 14th, 15th, 16th 2011
On October 14, 15, and 16th the Oakridge Hostel is hosting a new event called, ‘For the Love of Mushrooms, a Weekend Foray.’ Activities include lectures on mushroom ecology and sustainable harvesting practices, expert guided forays in the forests surrounding Oakridge, and a demonstration by a local chef on the culinary uses and preparation of mushrooms.
Oakridge, located in the foothills of the Cascades, approximately 40 miles southeast of Eugene is uniquely situated for great mushrooming according to local expert Peg Boulay.
Registration for the weekend includes all meals, lodging, guided walks to gather mushrooms, and evening lectures. For details visit the Oakridge Hostel event page.
Note: A group permit for collecting has been obtained that will let attendees collect for the Mt. Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival. This will allow 5 specimens of each species to be collected for display purposes.
General Meeting — Thursday October 13th, 2011
Our October speaker is Jake Hurlbert, who will be giving a presentation titled ”Ecology of Mushrooms - The Essential Roles of Mushrooms in Our Environment”.
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
Jake Hurlbert has a Masters in Science and Education and taught science for 28 years. He’s a member of several Mushroom Societies including the Oregon Mycological Society and is also a Member of the Native Plant Society of Oregon. He’s given numerous mushroom talks, and most recently gave a Mushroom Ecology presentation to the Small Woodland’s Association of Yamhill County. He’s taught classes on edible plants and mushrooms through Chemeketa Community College. Presently he is doing a 7-year study of the ecology of fungi and plants of Oregon, and currently is in Phase 5 of the study that includes the Mt Hood - Estacada region.
General Meeting — Thursday September 8th, 2011
Jessie K. Uehling will be giving a talk about her research - recipient of the Cascade Mycological Society 2010 Scholarship; Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene:
Jessie Uehling, 2010 Scholarship Recipient
My name is Jessie Uehling and I grew up in Boise Idaho. I graduated high school in 2005 and moved to Arcata, CA where I started working on my degree at Humboldt State University (HSU). In 2010 I graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Botany and entered the Masters program in Biological Sciences Department, also at HSU. I am just starting the second year of my project which involves examining the systematics of the Cantharellales from the Guiana Shield. In particular I am interested in the ectomycorrhizal Basidiomycete genus Clavulina. My thesis will include range distribution record amendments and many new species descriptions based on traditional morphology based taxonomy, as well as comparisons of molecular sequences from described species using online databases. In addition to being a graduate student I am the research assistant on my advisor, Terry Henkel’s NSF funded project, “Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity of the Guiana Shield”. I have had the pleasure of participating in 3 month long research expeditions into extremely remote locations in the interior rainforests of the upper Amazon River basin. These experiences have provided me with material to complete my Master’s thesis, familiarity with structure and execution of ectomycorrhizal community composition studies, and also with a very different outlook on life.
June Speaker — Thursday June 23rd, 2011
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
Our June speaker is Leon Shernoff, editor of Mushroom, the Journal who will give a talk about Boletes entitled “Boletes come of age”
Once upon a time, all gilled mushrooms were placed in the genus Agaricus. Back then, all pored mushrooms were also placed in the genus Boletus. While Agaricus has long since been split into hundreds of smaller groups, the boletes have only had a few genera broken off. But mycologists have been getting better at defining the species in small groups of mushrooms that were previously considered “complexes” — the honey mushrooms and the chicken mushrooms, for example. Come and learn what some of those small groups in the boletes are, and why some of them are now being recognized as new genera. As with the honey and chicken mushrooms, these new distinctions help us do better in our determinations of mushroom identity and edibility.
Membership Morel Foray 2011
NOTE: Meeting time has changed. Meet-up and parking will be at 8:00 AM in the Albertson’s parking lot in Springfield (west section of the parking lot, between McDonald’s and Radio Shack).
We will leave promptly at 8am. A foray coordinator will be there at 7:45. Please gas vehicles, get breakfast, coffee and anything you need before meeting.
Alternatively, meet at the Jack Creek bridge near the campground at 11:00 AM.
We will have our May Foray/campout on May 14-15 at Jack Creek Campground in Central Oregon. Open to members and their guests, please have mushroom picking permits and if camping, be prepared to pay the fee. (I believe it was $10 per tent.)
Participants can return to Eugene at the end of the day or choose to camp with the group at Jack Creek Campground.
As usual, you should bring water, food, a WATCH!!, a whistle is good and anything you may need for your comfort and safety. We will not be close to any store, gas or other amenities. The weather can be very unpredictable, plan for everything. Fortunately we have usually been pretty lucky with the weather, but it’s been a cold wet spring.
This foray will be in the Deschutes National Forest. For personal collection, a free permit is required and is available at Deschutes or Willamette ranger stations one of which is in Springfield. More information on permits is available on the Willamette NFS website. The rules for the Willamette apply the the Deschutes and a permit for one is good for the other.
Annual Membership Meeting — Thursday, May 12, 2011
Annual Membership Meeting
The Annual Membership Meeting has been scheduled this year for May 12, 2011, 7:00 pm, at the Pizza Research Institute, 530 Blair Blvd. We will supply pizza, you will of course BYOB (Buy Your Own Beer).
The purpose of the meeting is three-fold. First we will elect a new Board.
Our second goal is to recruit members to volunteer to help make the events we put on, the forays, the MPA Mushroom Show, the monthly speakers and the Yearly Fungal Feast, happen. We have several committees to ease the load on individuals and bring new ideas and energy to our programs. You can be a part of these events.
Committees include:
- Mushroom Show 30 year Anniversary Celebration, to help organize something special for the coming show.
- Forays, to help identify and scout new areas
- Speakers, to help find new and interesting speakers. Come tell us what you are interested in and with your help we can do it. If you can imagine it, you can make it happen.
Thirdly, we like to have fun. The Board is a fun[gal] group of folks that just like to have fun with mushrooms, so please come to the meeting, share the free pizza, and get involved. We need your ideas and energy. Come on down!
Vote by E-Mail
For the first time CMS will conduct the Board election over the internets. For those of you for which we have a valid email address, instructions will be sent out by email. Please vote by May 11th.
If you have not shared your email address with us, there are two ways you can vote. One way is to send your email address to us so we can send you the voting link and share things like this with you in the future. Don’t worry, we don’t sell your email address to the highest bidder; it’s kept private and only used for electronic versions of the Monthly newsletter and infrequent but pertinent emails about upcoming events. Email membership@cascademyco.org if you’d like to get the voting link.
The other option is to vote in person at the meeting with us. Regardless of how you choose to vote, we hope to see you at PRI on May 12th.
Truffle Dog Training Sponsored by the North American Truffling Society — Saturday, May 7, 2011
Noted dog trainer, Jean Rand, will lead the third NATS truffle dog training seminar at
The Forestry Club Cabin at Peavy Arboretum in Corvallis, Oregon, on Saturday, May 7, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
Jean and Gusto, “Oregon’s most proficient truffle dog”, have been featured in training seminars at the Oregon Truffle Festival and for NATS, and are sought after to determine whether plantations are producing truffles. The seminar will be a combination of lecture, fundamentals of scent training and practical fieldwork.
Attendance is limited to six dogs and four audits. A waiting list will be maintained.
Fees must be paid at time of registration. All dogs will be required to be under handler control and be well mannered in the company of other dogs and people. Aggressive or disruptive dogs will be ejected from the class without refund. Current rabies vaccination required for participating dogs.
Beverages and Continental breakfast will be provided.
Dog and owner training
Audit class, sans dog
For questions contact:
Marilyn Hinds,
President
North American Truffling Society
mkhinballard@peak.org
General Meeting — Thursday April 14th, 2011
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
Our April speaker is John Donohue, propertier of Northwest Mycological Associates. John will be speaking on “Mushrooms with a Mission” about his development work with mushroom farming in Vietnam and Cambodia.
John Donoghue has been growing mushrooms in the PNW since 1976 and was among the first people in Oregon to produce shiitake. During his formative years with mushroom cultivation he had a 10,000-log shiitake farm in Corvallis that produced shiitake year round. At the same time he worked for many years in the wild mushroom business during the infancy of the wild-mushroom harvest in the Pacific Northwest. He now works with most of the specialty mushroom farms in the Northwest and elsewhere and continues to do applied research directed toward improvement of specialty mushroom production.