Calendar


21st Annual Gary Lincoff Foray North Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


September 18, 2021 Hosted by the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club. Featured speakers are Michael Kuo and Leon Shernoff. See www.wpamushroomclub.org.


8th Annual Northwoods Foray Lakewoods Resort, Lake Namakagon, Wisconsin


September 16–19, 2021 The 2021 Northwoods Foray will be at Lakewoods Resort near Cable, Wisconsin. This was the site of the 2017 Annual NAMA Foray. For lodging and meals at the resort, contact Lakewoods Resort reservations 800-255-5937. This event is hosted by Britt Bunyard; for info email Britt at fungimag@ gmail.com or see the Annual Northwoods Foray Facebook page.


Annual Whatscookin’ Italy Mushroom Tour Croatia September 25–


October 5, 2021 Join FUNGI Editor-in-Chief Britt Bunyard and the Whatscookin’ crew as they foray—this time in Croatia! For information see ad in this issue or send an email to Britt at fungimag@gmail.com.


Mycological Society of America Annual Meeting Gainesville, Florida


July 10–14, 2022 For details go to: msafungi.org.


42nd Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival Telluride, Colorado


August 17–21, 2022 The biggest (and wildest) wild mushroom festival in North America! For information, see www.telluridemushroomfest.org or future issues of FUNGI.


Contents 2 Editor’s Letter


3 In Memoriam: Dorothy McMeekin and James W. Deacon


4 Poetry: Mushrooms, Brandon McQuade


5 Mushroom Statehood 8 Editor's Picks


15 Wild Epicure, A “Sweet Tooth” for Hedgehogs, Krista Towns


18 Can Soil Fungi Fight Climate Change?, Michael P. Amaranthus


and James M. Trappe


24 Tey're My Mushrooms: 3 Essays, Susan Goldhor, Joe McFarland


and Carla Beaudet


30 Poetry: Late Shift at the Foxfire Diner, Partridge Boswell


31 Unusual Sightings: Galápagos Islands, Zaac Chaves


32 My Near-Death Experience with Tricholomopsis decora,


Kathy Richmond


34 Emerging Treats to Wild Mushrooms, Britt A. Bunyard


36 Emerging Treats to Fungi (And all life)


42 May the Lichens Be With You, Lawrence Millman


43 Sir Mushroom, Lawrence Millman


45 Mushroom Odors, Jim Cornish


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On the Cover: Choriactis geaster, courtesy J. McRae.


56 Plastic is the Problem, Britt A. Bunyard


61 Meet the Artist: Jody Guralnick 68 Bookshelf Fungi & Film Review


73 Poetry: Te Trouble with Belief, Kyce Bello


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