You have had the pleasure of reading Eugenia Bone's contributions to our newsletter. For more, you can read her book Well-Preserved and her blog of the same name. This week's entry is about mushrooms featuring a Marinated Mushroom recipe :-P Go to: Well-Preserved where by scrolling to the end, you can subscribe to receive the latest installment delivered to your email inbox!

We had a large turnout on a splendid Autumn day for a walk at the South Mountain Reservation in Milburn, NJ, Good fruitings of Entoloma abortivum were foraged along with honeys, blewits, Hen of the Woods and Chicken. Gary Lincoff served as mycologist with an assist from Paul Sadowski. Thanks to Laura Biscotto for organizing the foray.

An update to Pam Kray's article about bat fungus that was reported at the July 25-29 2009 Botany and Mycology meeting in Snowbird, Utah. One of the first, and largest, infestations of the fungus was found less than 2 hours from NYC. It now has been seen in Europe, though there have been no die-offs there, as there have been here. Link

The current issue of McIlvainea, NAMA's annual journal of American amateur mycology, is now online. By clicking on the links in the sidebar, you can open section after section in traditional format. This issue includes articles by Else Vellinga, Brandon Matheny, Ron Petersen and Karen Hughes, Michael Beug and Marilyn Shaw, Andrus Voitk, and a Voucher Report for the last two annual forays. If you prefer paper, each file is formatted for easy printing.

Get McIlvainea here.


Registration is now open for the NAMA 2009 foray in Lafayette, LA, November 26-29, 2009. To learn more and to register, visit this page on the NAMA website:
http://www.namyco.org/events/index2009.html

Each year about 80 species are identified, but there’s a somewhat different mix each time. Altogether 150 or so mushrooms have been seen here on summer walks, the boletes are the most abundant and most diverse group collected. Fall walks at Stony Brook provide a somewhat different diversity of fungi. For a PDF listing that gives mushroom surveys for the last four years choose Stony Brook Consolidated species list from the Downloads area. For this year's list READ MORE...

Remember the morel tasting that we had over 3 years ago at Maria Reidelbach's? Well, finally the results are in and Michael Kuo sent me them. It turns out that they were Morchella rufobrunnea as expected. I'll talk more about it in the next newsletter.

Dennis Aita

Dennis Aita has been featured in an article appearing in the Bergen Record. A number of our coming walks were also published there. To read the article go to the Bergen Record website.

The Ron Mann film KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS Collector's Edition custom made box (containing flash drive of film, dried morels, and more) will be available on the FilmsWeLike website and on Amazon. It will cost $59.95 plus shipping It will be available Sept. 1 The regular DVD will also be available (at normal prices). This film features Gary Lincoff with cameos by NYMS members!

The umpteenth (over 40 years) Chanterelle Weekend was a great success. Thanks to Claudine Michaud for her organizational and culinary skills, employed for the pleasure of everyone who attended.

Here we see Claude and Martz and Sara Wacksman with some of the booty. See more photos from Alice Barner and in Claude Martz's photo gallery .

We will keep a list of species identified at our Foul Weather Friends meetings this year. Go here for the latest list.

The ride over to Staten Island on the ferry is an unusually fine way to commute to a foray. We were greeted with clear skies, warm weather and a refreshing breeze to cool us as we walked.

16 members and visitors were treated to commentary by Gary Lincoff, Dennis Aita, and Aaron Norarevian, who could be termed our Society's "brain trust" mycologically speaking. We had a group with us from the Toronto Mycological Society and new members Evan Mahl & Wendi Huestis, John Oakes, Karin Kuoni and their son Nathaniel. It was a very good showing. If anyone took any pics, please send them along so that we can include them here.

John Oakes submitted photos from the afternoon which you can see here .

We gathered over twenty species with the Amanitas well represented. For a complete list READ MORE...