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.
General Meeting — Thursday March 10th, 2011
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
Our guest speaker will be Marlo Gil who will give a talk titled “Fungal Mimicry: a volunteer’s experience with a unique neotropical study.”
Marlo is an Assistant Botanist on the Deschutes National Forest. She has a degree in Environmental Management from Indiana University and has continued Post-Bacc work in Botany at Oregon State University.
She recently spent three weeks in the Andean cloud forest of Ecuador as a student and volunteer participating in a fungal mimicry research project. The project is lead by University of Oregon’s Dr. Bitty Roy and Kew Botanical Garden’s Dr. Bryn Dentinger and is focused on the evolutionary relationship of Dracula orchids with agaric mushrooms.
The majority of her time was spent in the field with Dr. Dentinger surveying for and collecting fungi. There were some unexpected discoveries made and rare species found. The presentation will include a discussion of some of the exciting findings, a description of the project, and a display of brilliant photos.
General Meeting — Thursday February 10th, 2011
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
Meeting presented by Chris Melotti. See the complete slide deck for Morels, Truffles and other Spring Mushrooms, by Michael W. Beug.
Truffle Dog Training Sponsored by the North American Truffling Society — Saturday, February 26, 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, February 26, 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
Mushroom Kitsch Donations Wanted
Now that the holidays are behind us, we look forward to the New Year with excitement and anticipation. Have you been the recipient or the collector of now unwanted “mushroom kitsch?” Well, please consider donating your mushroom “art” to the February Fungal Feast silent auction.
As you know, the Cascade Mycological Society hosts our annual Fungal Feast in February. Last year, for the first time, we had a silent auction of mushroom themed items, with the proceeds going to the CMS scholarship and grant programs. (Just over $500 in 2009!)
So, please consider donating your excess mushroom art, mushroom kitsch or other fungal themed items (books, etc) to this worthy cause.
Donations can be dropped off at Chris & Molly’s house (115 Dorris St. Springfield; 541-746-7548) or bring them to the January CMS meeting.
General Meeting — Thursday January 13th, 2011
Our Jan. speaker is Britt Bunyard, editor of Fungi magazine. He will give a talk titled “From maitake to morels, a regional look at the edible mushrooms of North America.”
Britt is a college professor who has taught a broad range of undergraduate and graduate Biology courses, including Evolution, Microbiology, Mycology, Invertebrate Zoology, Plant Physiology, Biochemistry and Environmental Science. The main focus of his research interests is on the coevolution of macrofungi and Diptera, the true flies. Scholarly achievements include publication of scientific papers in numerous research journals, book chapters, one patent, articles in popular science magazines, and one full-length book of travel essays from living in Southeast Asia. Until recently, he was Editor-in-Chief of NAMA’s journal McIlvainea and newsletter The Mycophile, and as a Subject Editor for the Entomological Society of America’s journal Annals of the Entomological Society of America.
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene
2011 Fungal Feast Dinner
SOLD OUT
Our 2011 Fungal Feast takes place at the King Estate Winery on February 4th, 2011 at 6:30pm
96 tickets will be available. The first offering of tickets will go on sale on January 1st 2011 to active CMS members only for $30.00 a person. Any tickets remaining on January 15th 2011 will become available for non-members to purchase at $40.00 a person. If you are an active member of Cascade Mycological Society (having renewed in 2010) check your email and mailbox for additional information on how to purchase tickets. If you have not yet received this notice and believe you are an active member of CMS please contact membership@cascademyco.org. If you are not an active member and wish to become one, you can submit your membership payment through http://cascademyco.org/become-a-member/.
For additional information on the King Estate Winery go to http://www.kingestate.com/
The buffet style Fungal Feast meal will include:
General Meeting — Thursday December 9th, 2010
December’s speaker is Charlie LeFever, Phd. co-founder of the Oregon Truffle Festival and propertier of New World Truffieres. Dr. LeFever will give a talk entitled “Diamonds under the Douglas Fir: an introduction to the wild and cultivated truffles in Western Oregon.”
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene