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FORAY: 10am Saturday February 16 on private property
We need to collect fresh specimens for the fair! Join us on a Foray this Saturday Feb 16 with the San Diego Mycological Society.
***** Members Only *****
(if you are not yet a member you can join online here )
10am @
24251 Highway 76, Santa Ysabel. Sign says Lighthouse Farm. If you get to the lake or San Luis Rey campground you have gone too far.
Bring your own basket and collecting tools.
Pot-luck style, no access to inside house (so no facilities!).
Please print out, complete and bring along a signed Liability Waiver
If you can’t go on the foray, or prefer to collect somewhere else and bring specimen for the day. (Anyone welcome, i.e., you don’t need to be a member to bring specimens to the fair). Here are some collecting tips.
Store with some of the substrate with which it was found. Can store in fridge inside paper bag, waxy paper bag, or even to go containers. Bring either Saturday night during set-up or Sunday (hopefully before fair begins) and we can use the specimen for our Identification table.
Collect specimen with ID, where it was found, substrate, smell, and other identification details.
Bag for Duff with each collection.
SDMYCO is Social!
Keep up with mushroomy news, events and stay connected with us on all of our social channels.
You can find us on our newly revamped Facebook Page and on Twitter, Instagram and Meet-Up.
We look forward to connecting!
Science Spotlight: Baleen Whale Evolution
Whales are magnificent creatures, full of mystery and wonder… and one mystery that has puzzled scientists, including our very own Curator of Paleontology Dr. Tom Demèrè, for decades is how and when the evolution from teeth to baleen occurred in of the ancestors of today’s filter-feeding whales (e.g., blue, fin, humpback, right, and gray whales).
FUNGUS FAIR!!! Sunday February 17, 2019 10:30am-3:30pm
FUNGUS FAIR!!!
Fungus Fair is this: Sunday February 17, 2019 10:30-3:30. As a club we need your help to make this event great!
Please mark your calendars and spread the news to colleagues, family, friends and mycology enthusiasts! 2019 Fungus Fair Flyer
Volunteers
Consider being a volunteer for the event, we have several positions available to fit your needs and availability. We will train you for any position you wish to help us with. It is very minimal and mostly self-explanatory, but we will be there to guide you so you can enjoy the event and feel confident in helping us.
Also, as a member perk you get to come on our annual foray to help find fresh specimens, held Saturday Feb 16 location TBD. (Weather cooperating, otherwise we will suggest possible areas to scour for specimen). We will be discussing this a bit further in our January Monday meeting.
Here’s how to volunteer:
If you are interested in being a volunteer at the fungus fair you can let us know several ways:
In each please include your : name, telephone, email address (what’s the best way to contact you), what position you would like to do (can also leave it open and we place you where you are needed the most), what times you are available
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Send an email to info : sdmyco@gmail.com or sdmycomich@gmail.com
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Let a board member know you are interested in volunteering at Monday’s Myco Meeting
Positions available:
Set Up 1: Saturday 2/16, 5-10 pm, food provided. We need to set up tables, chairs, booths, ID table, to be ready for next days event.
Set Up 2: Sunday 2/17, 8-10am. Last minute touches making sure the room is ready to receive guests.
FAIR BEGINS::::: 10:30 am Sunday Feb 17
Greeters: We need two at a time, located at each entrance. Helps answer questions about events as well as direct people to the right location so their answers can be fully met. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to know everything about mushrooms being in this position)
Membership Table: Collect money and enroll new members (and old) for their membership.
Children’s Table: Help facilitate activities for children during the fair. We have some games and ideas with this, but you are able to get creative and plan some of your own.
Book Store: Need several!!! Sell merchandise from our book store (T-shirts, books and other interesting material). We accept money, Venmo, Paypal and CC.
Floaters: Help all positions in the room. This helps people vending, greeting, and sales people are able to take adequate food and bathroom breaks. Will be able to help with all positions.
Break Down: Severely needed help to break down everything after the fair! We need to make sure we remove all our items as well as the vendors, break down of tables and chairs.
Meeting Monday Feb 4, 6:30pm, Alan Rockefeller: Mushrooms of Mexico.
The guest speaker for our February 4th meeting will be Alan Rockefeller. The meeting will be hosted in Room 101, Casa Del Prado in Balboa Park at 6:30 PM. We will take Alan to dinner before the meeting around 5:00 at the Blue Water Seafood Grill. 3667 India St.
Come join Alan Rockefeller for our monthly meeting, a specialist in fungal taxonomy from Oakland, CA. Alan is a mycologist who discovers, classifies, and photographs different varieties of mushrooms. Come join us as he takes us on a journey through a decade of his work on the mushrooms of Mexico. He has identified and recorded over 1,000 species, based on phylogenetic and microscopic analysis. Alan regularly identifies mushrooms for several fungus fairs in Mexico and the USA in addition to identifying on websites such as Mushroom Observer, iNaturalist and various Facebook groups. The Shroomery.
The meeting will be held Monday February 4 @ held 6:30 PM in Room 101, Casa Del Prado in Balboa Park.
5p- Dinner. Come along & meet Alan over dinner!
6:30p- Mushroom ID, bring intact mushrooms that you find around town and get it identified!
7p- Talk Begins.
An exciting reminder that our Fungus Fair is Sunday February 17, 10:30-3:30. See you there!
Death cap mushrooms are spreading across North America
The Cockles of Your Heart
In February, the symbol of the heart is everywhere. The origin of the ubiquitous heart symbol, which can be traced back to earliest times in many different cultures, is cloaked in mystery and we will never be sure how it got started. Nor is it clear how that particular shape got linked to the human heart, an organ that is not especially “heart-symbol shaped.”
Foray: 9am Sunday January 27, Mt. Woodson Trail
For members only (not already a member? you can sign up via Paypal here: membership):
9am this Sunday, January 27, FORAY at Mt Woodson in Ramona.It is a moderate difficulty area.
Be sure to have good shoes, water, snacks, basket/knife etc.
Print out and fill the LiabilityWaiver and bring with you.
Meet at 9am at the trail head ( coordinates 33.0083,-116.9552 )
Park off the side of the 67 near the trail head. Here ( geo coordinates 33.0083,-116.9552 ) google map location On Apple maps on an iPhone you can find close by entering “Mt. Woodson Trail” or by entering the coordinates 33.0083,-116.9552 directly. Google maps on an android may lead you astray if you enter “Mt. Woodson Trail” so with them either use the coordinates or the link above.
Please print out and bring along a signed LiabilityWaiver
NOTE:
It is a moderate difficulty area.
Be sure to have good shoes, water, snacks, basket/knife etc.
Print out and fill the LiabilityWaiver and bring with you.
Meet at 9am at the trail head ( coordinates 33.0083,-116.9552 )
Rediscovering Lost Species
When plants or animals are so rare, we don’t even know if they need protection. So knowing they exist is the first step in conservation. Over the past couple of years, our researchers succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations at rediscovering lost species.