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  • Pop up walk: Dec. 23rd, Wolfe’s Pond Park, Staten Island

    Walks

    Join us for a pop-up walk in the Wolfe's Pond Park, Staten Island, Saturday, December 23rd at 9:30am!

    Bring lunch, water and paper bags for collecting specimens. Bring your hand lens, a knife, a tackle box if you have one, and your keen senses.

    We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app (IOS, Android) to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.

    If you've never been on a mushroom walk with us before, here is what to expect.

    The walk

    Take the 8:30 Staten Island ferry from Whitehall Street and then take the Staten Island Railway (SIR) which leaves at 9:01. It arrives at the Prince’s Bay station at 9:34 when the walk starts. The walk begins here, at the corner of Herbert Street and Holten Ave.

    You might want to use the MTA trip planner to find a transit route that works best for you. And definitely check the MTA Service Alerts web page for last-minute transit changes. (The MTA currently says that there are boarding changes for SIR trains for Saturday, but this does not affect transit.)

    We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

    What happens now that scheduled walks are finished for the year?

    We will have pop-up walks on most weekends until scheduled walks start again in July 2024. Pop-up walks are usually announced on Thursday mornings. Locations and dates are picked at short notice based on local conditions and walk leader availability.

    Members are encouraged to lead pop-up walks!

    If you are interested in leading or co-leading a pop-up walk please respond to this email. No taxonomic knowledge is required. The only prerequisite is familiarity with the club's walk route in a specific park.

  • Pop up walk: Monday, Jan. 1st, New Year’s Day, Central Park

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    Walks

    Join us for a pop-up walk on New Year's Day in Central Park, Monday, January 1st at noon.

    Bring lunch, water and paper bags for collecting specimens. Bring your hand lens, a knife, a tackle box if you have one, and your keen senses.

    We highly recommend using the iNaturalist app (IOS, Android) to document the fungi you find. Find out how to use it here.

  • Come join us for an online ID meeting this Monday, starring the Milky Caps!

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    Virtual Event

    Next Monday's week's ID meeting will be happening online.

    Rather than using our usual format we're going to experiment a little. Since there are fewer fungi to be found this time of year, we'll be diving deeper into genera that a lot of people are interested in. This Monday the spotlight is on the milky caps - Lactarius and Lactifluus, hosted and moderated by the club's own expert Bethany Beech.

    Bring your most exciting or confounding milky cap observations and let's figure them out together.

    As always we encourage you to use iNaturalist to share your observations - it's a great way to keep track of your finds, and you will be able to participate in these two NYMS projects:

  • POSTPONED: Pop up walk with the Bronx River Alliance Jan. 13th, Bronx Forest

    Burke Avenue Bridge, Bronx Forest
    Walks

    Join Journei Bimwala, Community Partnership Coordinator for the NYMS & artist-in-residence at the Bronx River Alliance, and Ethan Crenson, NYMS vice-president & newsletter editor, for a winter mushroom pop-up walk in the Bronx Forest, Saturday January 13th!

  • Come join us for an in-person ID meeting this Monday!

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    This meeting will take place on Monday from 6.30 to 8.30 at Ethan Crenson's apartment in Park Slope.

    Attendees can of course arrive later and leave earlier.

    Please bring any interesting specimens regardless of whether you have identified them or not, and check out what others have found.

    In person ID meetings are a great way of developing your hands-on identification skills and dipping your toes into microscopy!

    There will be microscopes and lots of books.

    We encourage you to use - it's a great way to keep track of your finds, and you will be able to participate in these two NYMS projects:

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  • Come join us for an online ID meeting this Monday, starring Ascomycetes!

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    Virtual Event

    Next Monday's ID meeting will be happening online.

    Since there are fewer fungi to be found this time of year, we'll be diving deeper into families of fungi that a lot of people are interested in. It's stick season, so this Monday the spotlight is on ascomycetes, hosted and moderated by the club's own expert Ethan Crenson. To get you in the mood, check out Ethan's charming Instagram takeover from the other week.

    Did you know that ascos account for a whopping 75% of the fungal kingdom, leaving fleshy fungi in the dust? They're as large as morels, as weird as Dead Man's Fingers and as tiny as the tiniest Patellaria. Bring your most exciting or confounding asco observations and let's learn about them together! We might well have time left over to look at other observations too.

    As always, we encourage you to use iNaturalist to share your observations - it's a great way to keep track of your finds, and you will be able to participate in these two NYMS projects:

    Fungi of New York City
    Fungi Beyond New York City
    Slime Molds of New York City

    If you're not using iNaturalist, try to have images on your computer that you can share.

    Either way, it's important to document your finds with clear pictures, showing as many details as possible.

    All members are welcome to join - especially new members! We will try to make it as easy as possible for everyone and are eager to assist, so please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87558669700?pwd=cmpWck8rODA1dzlLMHB4L0p4SlZodz09

    Meeting ID: 875 5866 9700
    Passcode: 421468

  • Diversity and Evolution of Chanterelles and Allies Rachel Swenie

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    Virtual Event

    This talk will discuss the common edible chanterelle mushrooms and their relatives. Despite their appearance, chanterelles are close relatives of a wide assortment of fungi with diverse forms that play many different roles in our ecosystems. How is it that such an oddball assortment of fungi are all closely related? How many species of chanterelles grow in North America? How can you tell species apart from each other, and from lookalikes? We will cover these topics and more!

    Rachel Swenie is a mycologist with expertise in the macrofungi of eastern North America. She earned her PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee and is currently a Farlow Fellow at Harvard University.