Mushrooms and Managers: A Workshop for Forest and Park Personnel
Date to be Determined
- 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 nd 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 rip to mushroom habitats (weather permitting)
- Hands-on session on mushroom identification
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.
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