General Meeting — Thursday May 10th, 2012
The Cascade Mycological Society May meeting speaker is Dr. Skye Weintraub, ND, who will present a photographic journey of the spring mushrooms of the Jack Creek and Suttle Lake areas in the Central Oregon Cascades. Dr. Weintraub is a Naturopathic physician and has practiced medicine in Eugene for 23 years. She is also the author of several health books including “The Parasite Menace.” She became interested in mushrooms during the early 80s when she took a class from Freeman Rowe at LCC. As a member of CMS, as well as being on the Board of Directors, she is interested in promoting mushroom education.
The meeting will be May 10th 2012. Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene. The talk is free and open to the public.
General Meeting — Thursday April 12th, 2012
The Cascade Mycological Society April meeting speaker is Dr. Matt Trappe.
Dr. Matt Trappe is a forest ecologist specializing in mycology, disturbance ecology, nutrient cycling, and soil microbiology. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences and a M.S. in Forest Science, both from Oregon State University. His Master’s thesis was on the ecology of winter chanterelles in western Oregon, and his Doctoral dissertation examined the effects of natural and man-caused disturbance on mycorrhizal fungi at Crater Lake National Park. He currently works in the OSU College of Forestry on forest carbon cycling research.
He will be giving a talk titled ‘Lichens: Fungi in Disguise’. The meeting will be April 12th 2012. Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene. The talk is free and open to the public.
General Meeting — Thursday March 8th, 2012
The March CMS speaker is “Toby the Truffler.” He’ll be sharing some of his experience in harvesting mushrooms and truffles commerically. Just about anyone who has ever logged into the “Fungal Forum” (on the CMS website) is familar with “chicken of the woods” Toby. He has engaged the online fungal community and shared mushroom information with friends and strangers from all over the world.
Toby was the sole proveyer of truffles at the world famous Oregon Truffle Festival this year. And, along with his truffle dog, Apa, he has even made an apperance in the magazine Fungi (Winter 2011).
Please join CMS in welcoming Toby the Truffler as the invited guest speaker for the March 2012 monthly meeting. Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene. The talk is free and open to the public.
General Meeting — Thursday February 9th, 2012
The Cascade Mycological Society February meeting speaker is Chris Melotti. He will be giving a presentation on beginning mushrooming, with a focus on edible species. The meeting will be February 9th, 2012. Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene. The talk is free and open to the public.
General Meeting — Thursday January 12th, 2012
The Cascade Mycological Society presents Dr. Charles LeFevre. He will be discussing the Oregon truffle industry and upcoming truffle festival. January 12th, 2012. Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene. The talk is free and open to the public.
Speaker Background: Born and raised in Oregon, Charles’ abiding interest in forest ecosystems generally, and in wild edible mushrooms in particular, led to both undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology and mycology. He received his Ph.D. in Forest Mycology at Oregon State University in 2002, conducting research on the host associations of the American Matsutake mushroom. He was President of the North American Truffling Society for almost 10 years, and has been an invited speaker at a number of national and international conferences on the North American truffles, most recently as a plenary speaker at the 3rd International Congress on Truffles in Spoleto Italy. He has published technical articles on the Oregon truffles and cultivation of the celebrated European species.
General Meeting — Thursday December 8th, 2011
The Cascade Mycological Society presents Daniel Winkler. He will be discussing his new book ‘A Field Guide to Edible Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest’. December 8th, 2011. Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene. The talk is free and open to the public.
Speaker Background: Daniel grew up in Munich, Bavaria, and started hunting Steinpilz (Boletus edulis) with his family at age 3. Finding mushrooms was just as exciting as finding Easter eggs, an excitement that is still to be had each time hunting for mushrooms. Later Daniel studied geography, ecology and botany in order to work on environmental issues in the Himalayas and Tibet, where he has been researching and consulting for twenty years.
In 1996, Daniel moved to Seattle and joined the Puget Sound Mycological Society. Being part of PSMS enticed him to take his life-long love for mushrooms to a whole new level. Daniel trained to become an expert mushroom identifier for the club and teaches classes.
Daniel has collected edible mushrooms on three continents and is an organizer of mushroom tours [www.MushRoaming.com]. He keeps venturing out into new and old habitats and cultures to feed his curiosity and his family, along the way capturing images and gathering stories to share in his writings and presentations.
General Meeting — Thursday November 10th, 2011
Geoffrey Johnson on Mycoremediation at the Oregon Country Fair.
The Cascade Mycological Society presents Geoffrey Johnson. He will be discussing his mycoremediation project on a site at the Oregon Country Fair. November 10th, 2011. Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
Geoffrey has been involved with the Oregon Country Fair’s Mycological Restoration Project since 2010. As an environmental science major at the University of Oregon, he is committed to the process of expanding functional knowledge into sustainable human societies. Geoffrey is particularly interested in partnering with Fungi as biological allies in the design of systems for dealing responsibly with waste streams and effluent.
Meet at 7:00 pm, room 115, Science Building (Building 16) at Lane Community College in Eugene.
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.
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 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.
