The Internet abounds with scores of mushroom-related Web sites. Below is a list of sites
that Nadine has found of interest ... Explore and Enjoy!
www.northwestmushroomers.org
Northwest Mushroomers Association’s new Web site. Visit to learn dates and locations for next NMA meetings, mushroom
forays, spring’s Survivors Banquet, and NMA’s annual Morel Madness weekend east of the mountains.
www.pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/biodiversity/matchmaker/index_e.html
The famed Matchmaker: where to go to identify gilled Pacific Northwest mushrooms. This site is sponsored by the Canadian Forest Service.
www.mykoweb.com
MykoWeb: one of the first mycology Web sites, created by San Francisco’s Michael Wood. More than 3700 mushroom photos, plus articles and recipes.
www.mushroomobserver.org
Visit this site by California’s Nathan Wilson to report weird, unidentifiable mushroom finds, or to see what oddities others
have found recently.
https://www.lsa.umich.edu/slavic/mushroomlore
Delightfully quirky site, developed by University of Michigan’s Snejana Tempest, replete with Russian mushroom lore. A must-see.
botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi
Tom Volk of University of Wisconsin hosts this long-time classic, which includes Tom’s regular feature, Fungus of the Month.
www.ac.wwu.edu/~fredr/3D_Photo_Main.htm
3-D visions of mushrooms, slime molds, cryptogams (lichens) and other organisms, captured by NMA’s own Fred Rhoades. Fred hosts a 3-D mushroom presentation for NMA each year in Bellingham.
www.fsl.orst.edu/mycology/poster/poster.html
Edible Pacific Northwest forest mushrooms. The Northwest is an important source of commercially harvested wild mushrooms, and this U.S. Forest Service site describes the latest efforts to manage these valuable resources.
www.psms.org
Web site of Puget Sound Mycological Society. PSMS is based in Seattle (and associated with the University of Washington),
but their meetings and events are well worth a foray from Bellingham.
www.natruffling.org
Web site of the North American Truffling Society, in Corvallis, Oregon. Discusses truffle identification and hunting, while tackling the big questions: pigs v.s. dogs? truffle farming or truffles au naturel? (If interested in truffles, check out the new Ten Speed Press book, Field Guide to North American Truffles.)
www.fungiphoto.com
Famed fungi photographer Taylor Lockwood’s Web site. Visit to view enchanting high-resolution photos of morels, chanterelles, boletes, medicinal mushrooms, mushroom cookery, more.
naturalhistory.uga.edu/~GMNH/Mycoherb_Site/main.htm
Mushroom art (including mushroom art on everyday objects), mushroom stamps (amazing miniatures), and more
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beauties from University of Georgia’s Julian H. Miller Herbarium Web site.
www.mycolog.com
Dr. Bryce Kendrick’s in-depth Web site, with fabulous photos from The Fifth Kingdom, his encyclopedic work on mushrooms
and other fungi.
www.scmsfungi.org
Snohomish County Mycological Society’s Web site. Again, more mushrooming activities with yet another mushroom club within shouting distance.
www.wildmushrooms.org
When in Oregon, do as Oregonians do – hang out with the Oregon Mycological Society, founded back in 1949.
www.vanmyco.com
North to Canada, and well-worth a trek: B.C.’s Vancouver Mycological Society.
www.namyco.org
North American Mycological Association (NAMA), the Big Daddy of mushrooming in North America, has over 2000 individual members and some 70 affiliated clubs in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
www.mushroomthejournal.com/index.html
Web site of Mushroom, the Journal, quarterly of mushrooming. Read selections from the Journal, or subscribe.
www.biology.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/jdeacon/microbes/armill.htm
Armillaria mellea and other wood-decay fungi: fascinating illustrated introduction to the role fungi play in rotting wood, by University of Edinburgh’s Jim Deacon.
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