Mushrooms and Managers:

A Workshop for Forest
and Park Personnel

• Roles of wild fungi in ecosystems
• Biology of wild fungi
• Mushroom identification: edible, commercial and poisonous species
• Uses of wild fungi
• Effects of management practices on wild mushroom production
• Monitoring the mushroom resource

Wild mushrooms are major products of our forests. Recent years have witnessed a tremendous growth in commercial harvest from public and private lands. Simultaneously, recreational picking of mushrooms has grown rapidly. Mushrooms are also targets of concern over conservation of biotic diversity. The result? A clash between the various users of this valuable resource, with forest managers caught in the middle!

As one forest manager put it, "Last year our personnel might have asked, 'what's a mushroom?' This year, the same people need to survey for rare fungi, issue permits for mushroom harvest, and administer sales of picking rights to commercial harvesters."

Mushrooms and Managers is designed to provide the basic background forest and park managers need to cope with the burgeoning interest in these long-ignored organisms. The workshop will be held at facilities of the requesting organization. A maximum of 25 participants will insure opportunity for lots of interaction between students and instructors. The course includes

• Fully illustrated lectures
• Questions, answers, and open discussion
• A half-day field trip to mushroom habitats (weather permitting)
• Hands-on session on mushroom identification

Mushrooms and Managers can be scheduled for the convenience of your organization but preferably should be during the mushroom season in late spring or fall.

Instructors

Dr. James Trappe, Professor, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Science and Botany-Plant Pathology, internationally recognized authority on biology and taxonomy of wild fungui. Jim has consulted on wild fungi qas a visiting professor and lecturer at institutions in 20 countries and has authored over 250 publications.

Dr. Daniel Luoma, Research Associate, Oregon State University Department of Forest Science, authority on ecology of native mushrooms and plants. Dan is internationally recognized for his studies on relationships of forest habitat to wild fungus production.

Course Fee

As low as $3700.