May/June, 2008
Volume 36 Issue 3
Ohio Mushroom Society
The Mushroom Log
Summer ForayDawes
Arboretum
By Dick Doyle, Shirley
Hyatt, and Walt
Sturgeon
9 am. Sat. July 19 till Noon
Sun. July 20.
The summer foray this year will
be held at Dawes Arboretum on
July 19-20. Dawes has a
wonderful collection of gardens,
trees, and landscapes. You
might want to save time to see
the Japanese Garden, the
Cypress Swamp or roam about
the grounds to learn to identify
trees and birds, especially if the
weather turns arid.
Dawes Arboretum is located 35
miles east of Columbus, OH on
Ohio St. Rte. 13, 3 miles north
of I-70 (Exit 132) or 5 miles
south of Newark.
Saturday July 19 9:00 am.
Registration, coffee and
doughnuts at the Dawes
Education Center.
Holiday Inn Express
773 Hebron Road (Rt. 79)
Heath OH 43056
(740) 522-0770
9:30, Introductions and tips on
collecting mushrooms.
10:00 Forays depart.
12.:00 Noon Forays return.
12:30-1:30pm Lunch (potluck,
covered dish, bring something
to share.
1:30-2:15pm Walt Sturgeon
slide show on Wood Munching
Agarics.
2:30pm Afternoon Forays
Depart.
4:30pm Forays Return
5:30pm Review Collections,
Table Walk.
6:30pm Dinner at a local
restaurant, tba.
Quality Inn
733 Hebron Road
Heath, OH 43056
(740) 522-1165
Sunday
9:00 am. Coffee and
doughnuts, view collections,
casual mushroom chat, enjoy
the trees and gardens at
Dawes.
1-1:45 pm, Public Slide Show
by Walt Sturgeon followed by
45 minute hike or table walk.
Red Roof Inn, #587
10668 Lancaster Road, SW
P. O. Box 310
Hebron, OH 43025
Voice-(740) 467-ROOF
Fax-(740) 467-3515
Super 8 Motel
1177 Hebron Road
State Route 79
Heath, OH 43056
(740) 788-9144
(800) 800-8000
Super 8 Motel
I-70 at Route 79
Buckeye Lake, OH 43008
(740) 929-1015
(800) 800-8000
If you mention the OMS Foray
at Dawes, you might get a
discount.
Accommodations:
The Schedule
Fri. evening July 18, 7:00 pm till
?? (early arrivals) Socializing
and refreshments at the
Jacktown Pub, at the
intersection of Ohio St. Rte. 13
and U.S. 40,Jacksontown OH,
just south of the Arboretum.
Heath and Hebron area
Hotels
Amerihost Inn
Exit 129B off I-70 on Rt. 79
122 Arrowhead Blvd.
Hebron, OH 43025
(740) 928-1800.
(800) 434-5800
For Camping, there is a KOA at
Buckeye Lake (740) 928-0706,
4460 Walnut Rd. SE.
Morel MiniForays for 2008
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May 3 Beaver Creek
By Sharon Greenberg
Seven hopeful morel hunters
braved the mist and drizzle on
Saturday May 4th with high
hopes of finding morels after
hearing good reports from the
south of the state. Walt
Sturgeon and I had scouted out
a nearby area the day before,
and found a dozen or so morels
each. It appeared to be early in
the season, but at least we
knew that they had already
poked their little heads out of
the ground in our area.... so the
hunt was on! The group was
comprised of experienced
mushroomers and "newbies"
Rich and Carol Hill who are new
to the morel scene (but not
mushrooms). The hunt began
in the Sprucevale area of
Beaver Creek Park. We started
out on a good note with a very
nice-sized morel being spotted
less than 200 feet into the walk.
From there, the group scattered
and everyone found their own
niche to hunt. Some
discovered the proverbial
"mother lode" (aka Glenn Roth)
under one tree, while others
had more limited success in
finding only several under
numerous trees. We gathered
after the morning session, took
pictures of our finds, and met
for lunch at a nearby Chinese
buffet. There we discussed the
hunt and had a chance to dry
out our boots before heading
back into the woods again at a
different location, this time on
the famous "mushroom ridge" in
another area of the park with a
higher elevation. The results in
the afternoon hunt were not
nearly as good, but there were
definitely mushrooms to be
found in that area also.
Total counts were Glenn Roth
with 117, Finley Lahmers with
63, Rich and Carol Hill with 32,
Walt Sturgeon with approx. 20,
Jerry Pepera with several
esculenta and a good fistful of
half-frees, and Sharon
Greenberg with 40 for the day.
We do not have an exact count,
but at least 275 morels were
collected by the group during
the day. All in all, it was one of
the better hunts at Beaver
Creek within the past several
years, and no one got
"skunked" (either literally or
figuratively).
Species list includes:
Morchella semilibera or Half
Free Morel
Morchella esculenta or
Common Morel
Gyromitra korfii or Bull Nose
False Morel
Polyporus mori
Polyporus squamosus or
Dryad's Saddle
Agrocybe praecox or Spring
Agrocybe
Coprinus micaceus, Mica Caps
Flammulina velutipes or Velvet
Foot
Pluteus atricapillus aka P.
cervinus or Deer Mushroom
Glen Roth with his impressive
117 morel haul.
May 3, Salt Fork
By Hugh Urban
We did pretty well at Salt Fork,
despite a small turn-out and a
very wet, rainy morning. In
attendance were me, Nancy,
Bud Housley, Eric Burns, Steve
Scott and Ferdinand Fernando.
We hunted two areas, one was
a horse trail covered with small
tulips morels and half-frees
around tulip poplar, cherry and
elm. The other was the usual
spot OMS does, the cave trail in
the back, where we found some
esculenta and some more tulips
around elm, poplar and cherry.
Totals for the day were: 15
esculenta, 12 half-frees,
somewhere over 400 small tulip
morels (lost count after a while)
and about a dozen or so that
could have been either small
esculenta or very large
deliciosa. I am beginning to
think there is no hard and fast
line between the two but more
like a gradation of forms from
the classic esculenta down to
the teeny tulip morel.
May 10 at Mt.
Gilead St. Park
By Dave Miller & Hugh
Urban
15 of us gathered at Mt.
Gilead St. Pk. on a bright cool
morning. We hunted for over
2 hours with rather
disappointing results. See pix
below. Though I’d found
none, Chris Ott, who is about
to move to IN, took pity on me
and donated his finds (the
smaller morels in the pix).
Greg Hostetler found the big
ones near the trail.
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Marita King and Greg
Hostetler won smallest and
largest specimen prizes.
State Park: me(Hugh), Chris
Ott, Greg Hostetler, Eric
Burns, Finley Lahmers, and
Joe Day. At Mohican, we
found 38 morchella esculenta
with a few tulips mixed in plus
two semilibera. The
esculentas were all around
ash and dead elm; one was
too tiny to pick and we left it
for another day. Eric Burns
was the one who made the
two big finds -- one was a
dead elm in a swamp
surrounded by skunk cabbage
that all of us passed by, but
Eric waded in through the
thorns and swamp and found
about 15 nice yellows. He has
a good nose for the morels for
sure.
Invasive Species
Most of the Mt. Gilead crew.
Seated: Bud Housley, me,
Nancy Jesser; Standing: Dick
Grimm, Finley Lahmers,
Minor Dickason, Ron Gudrim
(?), Eric Burns, Rich Hill, Greg
Hostetler
The total haul (above)
included the species listed
under Beaver Creek above
except there were no false
morels, no Agrocybes, nor
half free morels; but we did
find a Peziza sp., several
Auricularia (Cloud Ears), and
an old Fomes rimosus.
After lunch, six of us
continued on to Mohican
By Dave Miller
elms on my wooded property.
Once their trunks attain a girth
of ca. 6 inches, the beetles find
them and the resultant disease
once again proves fatal.
Efforts to breed resistant strains
of both American Elm and
American Chestnut have been
underway for some time now
and sometime soon, we may
see a resurgence of these two
noble trees. I published an
article on efforts to save the
chestnut tree back in the
March/April, 2007 issue of the
Log. It reported that a series of
crosses between the American
(susceptible) and Chinese
(immune) chestnuts had
produced a hybrid which is
indistinguishable from the
American chestnut, but immune
to the disease. Similar success
at breeding resistant elms
remains a seemingly distant
goal.
Ed. Note: This is the third and
last part of an article begun in the
Jan/Feb Log. Previously, I gave
a brief overview of three fungalcaused tree diseases, Chestnut
Blight, Dutch Elm Disease and
Sudden Oak Death, then two
insect threats to OH trees, the
emerald ash borer and the wooly
adelgid.
While I was working on this
article, Jerry Pepera forwarded
a message from Bob Bartolotta
about a scientist, Cindy Hale of
the Great Lakes Worm Watch,
who spoke at the Cleveland
Natural History Museum giving
evidence that earthworms are
an invasive species which are
wreaking havoc in certain
hardwood forest habitats.
As much as I hated to see the
elms virtually disappear, at least
in the form of large, 2-3 foot
diameter giants, with their great
shade-giving, fan-shaped
canopy, their loss has not been
without its up-side. You can
usually find morels near the
base of recently killed large
trees for a year or two after their
demise. But in the larger
scheme of things, is a couple of
years of easy morel pickings
worth the loss of the American
elm? Or is the elm really lost?
There are numerous young
Earthworms, now! Good grief!
All these years as a gardener
who’d believed the lore about
how they mix and aerate the
soil, help break down organic
matter, which vastly improves
the soil. When all else of the
natural world is on hold during
the depths of winter, I found
solace in breaking through the
upper layers of leaf piles, where
I’d find earthworms had
migrated upwards from the
(usually) waterlogged soil and
were happily munching on and
converting the leaves to
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compost. I’d even considered
vermiculture, the growing of
them in containers to convert
kitchen scraps into rich
compost. Is this a hysterical
plot to implicate these good
guys, the worms, in yet another
onslaught by dastardly
invasives? Or am I suffering
from environmental-threat
fatigue? I had to look into this
further, so I visited their website
www.nrri.umn.edu/worms.
It was a real education.
For starters, there are NO
native earthworms documented
in most of the Great Lakes
region. Whatever native
species might have been here
were wiped out by the glacial
ice sheets which covered the
upper Midwest between 11,000
and 14,000 years ago.
Recolonization of soils by native
earthworms occurs only very
slowly, the worms moving less
than ½ mile in 100 years. Thus
our forests in the Great Lakes
region developed to their
mature climax state as
essentially earthworm-free, and
the native flora and fauna
evolved to thrive in such a
verminless Eden. (vermin
comes from the Latin vermis,
meaning worm, though vermin
has developed a broader
meaning to include
“troublesome or disgusting
insects or other minute animals”
to quote the American College
Dictionary.)
So where did all the supposedly
beneficial earthworms come
from?
The same place as most of our
weeds (e.g., dandelions,
plantain, ragweed, to name just
a few) which plague our
agriculture did: their seeds
were purposefully imported
here by our less environmentally aware ancestors. The
worms came in soil with
imported plants; in ship ballast;
they quickly became a part of
the soil life in and around
human habitations, so much so
that we now believe they must
have always been here.
And the worms’ industrious
abilities to convert organic
matter into beneficial, nutrientrich, beneficial-to-crops worm
castings, all to the good in
agricultural environments,
becomes a bete noir in sugar
maple forests. Many of the
understory plants as well as
tree seedlings roots do best in
the thick accumulation of litter
which hardwood forests
especially generate. This “duff”,
as it is sometimes called,
provides a porous medium for
their roots to thrive in. Its thick
spongy “air pockets” act as an
insulating blanket protecting
roots from temperature
extremes and providing a
reservoir of moisture.
The worms eat this duff and
their castings (worm poop),
while very nutrient rich, deprive
the roots of the duff’s protective
qualities. They have a harder
time penetrating the denser
mineral soil layers and many of
the finer rootlets perish. Thus
compromised, many of the
understory plants and tree
seedlings can no longer
compete.
Among the plants who outcompete them is garlic mustard,
Allairia, a recently (late 1800’s)
introduced weed, which will
quickly form dense stands in
the more open woods which
result with the loss of
understory species. In the
May/June, 2006 Log, I reprinted
an article from the N.Y. Times,
about garlic mustard’s
detrimental effects on sugar
maple seedlings and how this
was related to its effects on
mycorhizzal fungi.
If you’re interested in learning
more I highly recommend
consulting the website above.
It offers a fascinating glimpse
into how the invasive
earthworms change the forest
floor and the cascade of
secondary effects this has on
forest ecology. It is a lesson we
are learning repeatedly as we
study the intricate interconnections which an ecosystem entails. And when
fishing with worms as bait, don’t
dump them out so you’re not
responsible for spreading them.
Take them home and put on
your compost pile!
Fungal Snares
and Other Sticky
Ends
By Else C. Vellinga
For over twenty years we have
watched a fallen oak be
devoured by oyster
mushrooms. At first the decay
went slowly, but during the last
few years it has accelerated.
This winter, for the first time, we
could not really find the wood,
and the oyster mushrooms had
disappeared.
Wood is a very inhospitable
substrate. Its components are
hard to break down and, though
rich in carbon (C), nitrogen (N)
(an essential component for
amino acids and proteins) is in
very low supply. Wood
decayers have come. up with
ingenious ways to cope with
this shortage, including one
chemical pathway that has
bioluminescence as a byproduct (e.g. in the jacko'lantern ).
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Oyster mushrooms and their
relatives in the genus
Hohenbuehelia (gilled
mushrooms chock-full of thickwalled encrusted cystidia, with
a gelatinous layer in the cap)
have come up with a
remarkable alternative-they
devour nematodes. The
mycelium of these species
forms drops (in the case of
Pleurotus) or adhesive knobs
(Hohenbuehelia), which contain
toxins that paralyze the
nematodes (which are very
small worms). The reaction of a
nematode to these toxins is
immediate-it stops wriggling
and forms a simple target for
the hyphae of the fungus. The
hyphae hone in on the mouth of
the nematode and enter the
animal, which is at this point still
alive. The hyphae proceed
inside and devour the
nematode from the inside out.
Just like humans eat meat for
their protein supply, so does the
oyster mushroom "eat" the
nematode.
Hohenbuehelia species that do
this have been known for a long
time, but mostly not in the form
of fruiting bodies; rather, they
exist as sterile mycelia in the
soil under the genus name
Nematoctonus. Another source
of nitrogen for the oyster
mushrooms is bacteria, and this
might be the case for more
species than we realize. There
is a report that Laccaria species
can obtain nitrogen from
springtails-another way of
getting this essential part of the
fungal diet. It is, however, not
known how the Laccaria are
able to kill the springtails.
The nematode-killing abilities of
the oyster mushrooms, plus
Hohenbuehelia, are not found in
other gilled mushrooms.
Instead, they form a separate
group that, in an evolutionary
context, is close to the family of
the deer fungus, Pluteus.
However, fungi in the phylum
Ascomycetes have come up
with the same idea to
supplement their spartan
carbon diet. One order in
particular, the Orbiliales, is rich
in species that have come up
with fascinating trapping
devices. The genus Orbilia is an
example; its species form very
small, glassy, brightly colored
little cups on wood, which are
easily overlooked.
The classical and thorough
work-with beautiful illustrationson these nematode-trapping
fungi was done by Drechsler in
the 1930s. There are at least
five different models of these
traps, including adhesive knobs,
two-dimensional or 3-D
networks of adhesive cells,
adhesive columns, and a lassolike structure made up of three
cells that inflate (like an air bag)
when the nematode pokes in.
Rings that do not inflate are
also found, but only in
combination with the adhesive
knobs (which makes sense).
Educational movies on the
workings of those traps can be
found online at
www.microbelibrary.org. How
these structures have evolved,
and which ones are more
derived, is not yet quite clearthe two papers dealing with this
issue reach opposite
conclusions. One paper has the
3-D networks primitive and the
adhesive knobs derived, while
the other reverses the order.
Recently, hyphae with nonconstricting rings were found in
a piece of amber dating from
the Late Albian period during
the Cretaceous period (around
100 million years ago).
Nematodes were present in the
same amber, which indicates
that this type of interaction is
not a modern invention at all.
To put this in perspective, small
mushrooms, very closely
resembling modern Marasmius
species, have been found in 9094 millionyear-old amber from
New Jersey. Arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungi have been
found in much older deposits,
dating from the Ordovician
period (460 million years ago).
There is a huge interest in using
the nematode-trapping fungi as
possible bio-control agents for
those nematodes that cause
animal and plant diseases, and
also in the fungal species that
might be a threat to those
nematodes which are,
themselves, used to control
plant-pathogenic insects.
Oyster mushrooms can be
found on almost every walk in
the woods, and the soils of the
grasslands and forests harbor
many species of other
nematode trappers. Does this
make you think of Gulliver? You
might not want to stand in one
spot for too long!
- Reprinted from Mycena News,
vol. 59:02, February 2008, The
Mycological Society of San
Francisco February 2008, via
Mushroomers of the Oregon
Mycological Society (OMS).
Distant
Harvests
(Roots, Shoots, and
Leaves)
By Susan Goldhor
Reprinted with the author’s
permission from the 2007 Issue
No. 3 of the Boston Mycological
Club. Cont’d from the Mar/Apr.
Log.
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Like almost all good
science, these findings
raise more questions.
What makes roots grow?
How do the hyphae find
and access the roots?
How much C does the
plant allocate to belowground roots and fungi?
If both roots and hyphae
cycle their C (or CO2)
back so quickly, does this
go into the atmosphere or
does it stay in the soil?
One answer to the question of
what makes roots grow is that
they are incredibly sensitive to
the presence of water, and
send out hairs towards even
small amounts. (I know. This
doesn’t really answer the
question of the mechanics of
how they grow. Sorry.) As
Luoma puts it, “Fine hairs
extending from the root appear
almost spontaneously at the
slightest whiff of moisture; if the
soil becomes completely dry,
they virtually melt away. The
root, meanwhile, extends itself
onward through the soil in
search of more moisture. The
cap at the tip of the root is scaly
and hard, like a helmet – or a
thimble. It is the most
industrious piece of the tree,
probing nooks and nicks and
crannies, worming between
tightly packed stones…
pursuing whispers of moisture
all the while, snaking around
obstructions, and even, when
necessary, lifting great weights.
“ Despite this strength,
sensitivity and energy, however,
we know that plants still need
and get water from mycorrhiza,
and the reason seems to be –
at least partly – that mycorrhizal
hyphae can get into micropores
that root hairs simply can’t fit
into, and that the hyphal net can
connect trees with far more soil
area than the tree’s roots can
access on its own – as much as
a thousand times more.
I’m not sure how the hyphae
find the roots, but I have the
feeling that it’s the same way
people meet in crowded clubs
or mixers, with the added
advantage that many
mycorrhizal fungi are
unselective – indeed, we might
say promiscuous. (Of course,
so are many people.)
Remember that a typical
teaspoon of healthy soil
contains literally miles of
hyphae. Hyphae and roots
(and everything else down
there) are in intimate contact,
plus they’re growing and
probing all the time. Also, since
the hyphae are probably
already inserted into the cells or
intercellular spaces of older
roots, it’s not a huge stretch to
locate the new ones. The really
interesting question is how they
physically glom (that’s a subtle
but clever pun, since many
mycorrhizal fungi are Glomales)
on to the root. We may not
know how they do it, but we do
know, via the fossil record, how
long they’ve been doing it for:
ever since the first land plant
appeared, about 400 million
years ago. Scientists have
been learning more about the
genetic basis of the association
recently, but not because
they’re interested in fungi. It
turns out that about 70 million
years ago, the legumes arose
and the rhizobial bacteria that
attach (sorry – I just can’t say
“infect” for this association,
even though this is the term
many of the scientific papers
use) to their roots and fix
nitrogen, cleverly and
economically took advantage of
some of the machinery that was
already there for the fungal
association. And, because
humans could see the
economic and agricultural
advantages of the rhizobia in
the legumes, this topic has
been the focus of a lot of
research. There are a number
of key differences between
rhizobial associations and
mycorrhizal associations, one of
which is that rhizobial bacteria
are far more limited than
mycorrhizae in their host
ranges. This demands clear
chemical signaling by both
parties, since they not only
need to hook up, but each
needs to identify itself to the
other as an appropriate partner.
Additionally, rhizobial
nodulation appears to be more
anatomically complex than
fungal attachment, and requires
the root hair to swell and curl
around the bacteria; something
that doesn’t happen with fungi.
French researchers have
shown that a number of
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi do
produce small diffusible
molecules that activate at least
one of the genes that are
activated by what are called
Nod (for nodulation) factors,
produced by rhizobial bacteria.
Researchers know of a number
of genes required for
nodulation, and they may find
that more are shared by
mycorrhizal association. It
seems to me that we would
expect a simpler system for the
short-lived mycorrhizae, as
opposed to the nitrogen-fixing
nodules which are
comparatively large,
permanent entities, although
this might not be true for the
arbuscular structures. But I’ve
been wrong before. (Note that
much of this paragraph comes
from an article entitled, “The
Roots of Plant-Microbe
Collaborations” by Jean Marx in
Science, 9 April, 2004.)
The question of how much
carbon plants allocate to their
below-ground parts and
partners requires a vague
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answer since different plants
and, presumably, even the
same plant under different
circumstances, vary quite a lot.
Researchers have found (more
or less) between 40-70% going
below ground. As to how much
of this actually goes to the
fungal partners, this too is quite
variable, but two studies (one in
a Scandinavian pine forest and
one in a Washington fir forest)
have come up with estimates
(not actual measurements) of
about 15%. Luoma says that
scientists have estimated about
40% of total photosynthate
seeps out of the roots to feed
both mycorrhizal fungi and
everything else that’s hanging
around. I can’t check this
figure, but it’s very likely that at
least the Washington fir figure is
too low. And, both of the 15%
estimates are of evergreen
forests, and may not tell us
much about mixed deciduous
communities.
One of the issues driving
current research on the fate of
carbon in the forest is concern
about global warming. Since
humans would prefer not to
change their lifestyles, they are
hoping that forests will do their
dirty work for them. (These are
the same forests that humans
have hacked down in order to
get the lumber demanded by
those same lifestyles.) Climate
change and carbon
sequestration come up over
and over again in books and
articles I’ve read about fungi in
the forest, and they often
mention that a high percent of
the carbon passed to the
mycorrhizal fungi is respired out
again. (Of course – why do the
fungi need sugar in the first
place if not to break it down for
energy?) Obviously, if the
hyphae are actively
metabolizing and breaking
down as fast as their partner
root hairs, they are not going to
be great at carbon
sequestration. But what
amazes me about these
publications is how infrequently
they mention glomalin, and how
much of the research on carbon
exchange and storage looks
only at hyphae. Glomalin is the
bizarre and perhaps unique
material that forms a rigid tube
around the soft hyphae of
arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.
And – because its weird
(protein+carbohydrate+iron)
structure is almost impossible
for any creature to break down
– it has a lifetime of up to forty
years in soil; more than any
other natural material we know.
Furthermore, at least in some
experiments, increasing
atmospheric CO2 caused
increased glomalin formation.
The discoverer of glomalin,
Sara Wright, and her colleague,
Kristine Nichols, showed that
glomalin may account for more
than a quarter of all soil carbon.
If fungi are going to save the
planet, the place to look for their
carbon sequestration is
glomalin – not hyphae.
Glomalin (named for Glomales)
was discovered in 1996.
Luoma’s book was published in
1999, so it’s reasonable that he
doesn’t mention it. (While news
about Paris Hilton may travel at
the speed of light, news of
fungal discoveries does not.)
On the other hand, “Mycorrhizal
Ecology”, a collection of
scientific studies on fungi,
including their role in carbon
cycling and climate change,
was published in 2002, and (if
the index can be trusted)
contains one short reference to
glomalin in its 456 pages.
Shame!
I have to stop, although the
rhizosphere in general, and the
root-hyphal connection in
particular, have much more to
teach us. The canopy is being
saved for the future; get ready
for more surprises! May you
have a fall fruit-full of beautiful,
delicious and amazing fungi.
And, as you walk through the
woods, consider the world
beneath your feet, with its everchanging partners in the dance
of root hairs and hyphae, eaten
by bacteria and arthropods and
annelids but always pushing out
new shoots; everything living
and dying, attacking and
defending, consuming and
being consumed. Remember
that if all of this flux works as it
should, the forest will survive
and we will celebrate its
permanence. Don’t be a
surface chauvinist! Protect the
below-ground and the aboveground will take care of itself.
Time to Renew:
OMS Dues for 2008
are Due
It’s that time of year
again. Spring is here
Well
and we are hunting
mushrooms. Don’t
forget to renew your 2008 dues
if you haven’t done so already.
Don’t miss a single issue of the
Mushroom Log or miss out on
upcoming foray opportunities.
At a measly $10 per year, it’s
still one of the best values
around! The cutoff date for
dues payment is May 31, 2008.
You will be removed from the
OMS Mushroom Log mailing list
after the Maya/June issue, if we
haven’t received dues from you
before the subsequent issue is
to be mailed. Use the handy
renewal form provided in this
Log. And please, alert us of
any name, address, zip code,
email, and telephone number or
area code changes.
To sum up:
 OMS costs $10 per year
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NAMA costs $32 per year
—for OMS members
Separate checks, please
Send OMS checks to Jerry
Pepera, P. O. Box 1075,
Chardon, OH 44024.
We welcome your ongoing
participation!
352 W. College St.
Oberlin, OH 44074
[email protected]
Articles for the next newsletter
Deadline –July 26
David Miller
Calendar of Events
Beaver Creek State Park, near
Calcutta OH. Details tba.
OMS Events
Email Jerry at
[email protected] to
receive notification of
impromptu events. Check your
most recent issue of the
Mushroom Log for event
updates and for more detailed
information. Please plan to join
us. All mini-and morel forays are
subject to cancellation. Call first
to confirm. Please bring a
whistle and compass and RSVP
the host so they have
cancellation flexibility.
Other impromptu mini forays, as
follows:
An open invitation to anyone
who wants to mushroom hunt in
Fredericktown.
Call Dick
Grimm (740) 694-0782, and if
he’s available and there are
mushrooms in the woods, he
will go.
Sat. July 12th, 9 AM. Mt Gilead
State Park, Main Pavilion. A
joint mini-foray with the NE
Ohio Native Plant Society. Dick
Grimm, (740) 694-0782 and
Tom Sampliner (216) 371-4454.
From north or south, exit I-71at SR
95 exit, go west on 95 approx. 8 mi.
From west, pick SR 95 at Marion,
OH, from east go to Mt. Vernon,
pick up SR 13 to Fredericktown,
exit at SR 95, go west to I-71, then
Sat. Nov.15th. Annual Dick Grimm
Banquet. Buckeye Lake Yacht
Club. Details tba.
Ohio & Regional
as above. Prairie walk at approx.
2:30 pm. Lots of food choices at I71 SR 95 exit. Prairie only a mile
from there.
Aug. or Sept. Mini-foray.
Chance Creek, Lorain Co.
Metroparks, depending on
weather!
Dave Miller (440) 774-8143.
Oct. 5 (Sun.) Mini-Foray—
Grove’s Woods, Trumbull Co.,
Pete & Pauline Munk. (440)
236-9222.
Email Jerry as instructed
above.
July 19-20(Sat-Sun.)—
Summer Foray at Dawes
Arboretum. See details on
page 1.
Oct. 11-12 Fall Foray, Little
Beaver Creek Nature Center at
July 31-Aug. 3 (Thurs.-Sun.)
NEMF, Northeastern Mycological
Foray, Connecticut College, New
London CT. A See their website
www.nemf.org for details.
Aug. 10th(S ) Scenic Vista Park,
Wayne Bridge Rd., just west of
Lisbon, 2:00-4:00. Outdoor
mushroom hike and mushroom
display. Conducted by Walt
Sturgeon. Free.
Sept. 13th (S ) Beaver Creek State
Park, at the Nature Center, 5 hour
mushroom workshop, conducted by
Walt Sturgeon. Registration and
Fee, contact the Nature Center or
Park Office.(330) 385-3091.
Sept. 20 (Sat.)—Western PA
Mushroom Club’s 7th Annual Gary
Lincoff Mid-Atlantic Mushroom
Foray, North Park PA. See their
website at
www.wpamushroomclub.org.
National & More
September 18-21---2008
NAMA Foray in McCall, ID .
See their website,
www.namyco.org, for details
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Membership Application for the Ohio Mushroom Society
NAME
ADDRESS
CITY
STATE
TELEPHONE
FAX
ZIP
EMAIL ADDRESS
Enclosed please find check or money order: $10.00 (family) annual _____
enrolling me in the Ohio Mushroom Society. My interests are:
Mushroom Eating/Cookery
Photography
Mushroom ID
Cultivation
$125 life ______________
Nature Study
Other (specify)
Would you like to be an OMS volunteer? In what way?
How did you hear about our group?_________________________________________________
SIGNATURE
May OMS provide your name to other mushroom related businesses?
Yes____No
Return form and money to: Ohio Mushroom Society, c/o Jerry Pepera, P. O. Box 1075, Chardon, OH 44024
Reminders: Please send your E-mail and mailing address changes to Jerry Pepera at the above address.
2008 Ohio Mushroom Society Volunteers
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Chairman
Walt Sturgeon
(330) 426-9833
[email protected]
Newsletter Editor
Dave Miller
(440) 774-8143
[email protected]
Program Planners
Walt Sturgeon
(330) 426-9833
[email protected]
Hospitality Co-chairs
Janet & Jack Sweigart
(419) 634-7216
[email protected]
Treasurer/Membership/
Circulation
Jerry Pepera
(440) 354-4774
[email protected]
All-round Special Person
Dick Grimm
(740) 694-0782
[email protected]
Daphne Vasconcelos
(614) 475-4144
[email protected]
Sharon Greenberg
(330) 457-2345
[email protected].
ne
Jack-of-All-Trades
Dick Doyle
(740) 587-0019
[email protected]
Corresponding Sec’y
Joe Christian
(419) 757-4493
[email protected]
Cleveland Metroparks
Liason
Debra Shankland
(440) 526-1012
dks@clevelandmetroparks.
com
Pete & Pauline Munk
(440) 236-9222
[email protected]
Lake MetroParks Liaison
Jennifer Harvey
(440) 256-2106
[email protected]
om
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Ohio Mushroom Society
The Mushroom Log
Circulation and Membership
Jerry Pepera,
P. O. Box 1075
Chardon, OH 44024
Editor
Dave Miller
352 W. College St.
Oberlin, OH 44074
www.ohiomushroom.org
The Mushroom Log, the official newsletter of the
Ohio Mushroom Society, is published bi-monthly
throughout the year.
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always welcome. Articles may be edited for length
and content.
Non-copyrighted articles may be reprinted without
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