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REPORT of NEWFOUNDLAND FORAY & LABRADOR September 28-30, 2007 Burry Heights Avalon Peninsula LINNÆUS TERCENTENARY FORAY OFFICIAL PARTICIPANT OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES’ INTERNATIONAL LINNÆUS CELEBRATIONS SPONSORS: The Department of Environment, & Conservation: - Parks & Natural Areas Division - Wildlife Division - Salmonier Nature Park The Department of Tourism, Culture & Recreation: - The Rooms Corporation, Provincial Museum Gros Morne Cooperating Association Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Andrus Voitk Memorial University Gros Morne National Park Terra Nova National Park Quidi Vidi Brewing Company CONTENTS Faculty 1 Trails 1 Participants 2 Program 3 REPORT 4 Highlights 8 Species List 11 What do the data mean? 17 Ecoregions of NL Inside back cover 2008 Advance Notice Outside back cover NOTE: Just as the foray tries to serve many interests, so also this Report tries to serve its many constituents. Some of the material may be too detailed, some too tedious and boring, much of it irreverent or irrelevant to many interest groups. The ecologist may be interested in how many collections of a species came in. The park interpreter may want to know what are the common mushrooms in her park. The foray participant may just want a memento of what went on. The mycologist may wish to know what species fruit on the Avalon. And so on. If much of it is not pertinent to you, please ignore it. You need not feel bad for not reading it all. It is easier to write one report, including things pertinent to faculty, participants, sponsors, biologists, other mycologists and mycophiles and so forth, than trying to write a separate Report for each group. Yes, I’m lazy! Photographs by Roger Smith and Andrus Voitk Ecoregion maps courtesy Department of Energy and Conservation Copies of this Report, the Reports for 2003 - 2006 and Annotated Cumulative Species List can be downloaded in pdf form from the mushroom section of the Humber Natural History Society’s web page, <www.hnhs.ca/mushrooms/>. Please feel free to use or circulate this and any of the other documents. Comments & questions — All rights reserved © Andrus Voitk FACULTY Guest Britt Bunyard NAMA Kare Liimatainen University of Helsinki Dave Malloch New Brunswick Museum TRAILS Tuula Niskanen University of Helsinki Jorinde Nuytinck University of Ghent 1. Salmonier Nature Park (provincial) Roger Smith University of New Brunswick Vello Soots Mycological Soc of Toronto Boreal forest. Boardwalk all the way. Greg Thorn Western University Local 2. Salmonier back to — Avalon Wilderness Michael Burzynski Gros Morne National Park area (provincial) Faye Murrin Memorial University Boreal forest, bogs. More remote, rougher Andrus Voitk Humber Natural History Soc Gary Warren Canadian Forestry Service trails but easily passable. TRAIL LEADERS (in addition to the above) 3. Butter Pot Provincial Park Guest Boreal forest. Good trails. Bill Richards Nancy Ironside Pat Burchell 4. La Manche Provincial Park Local Boreal forest. Good trails. John Maunder Judy May 5. Castle Hill Historic Site (federal) Mac Pitcher Boreal forest, fields of lawn. Good walking, Maria Voitk moderate hills to climb. CHEFS Mushroom 6. Not used Gene Herzberg Vito Testa 7. Deer Park (community) Aare Voitk Roadkill Relatively easy walk. Lush and moist protected Randy Batten boreal forest with some southern plantlife. Mac Pitcher Roger Zilkowsky 8. Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve (provincial) REGISTRARS Judy May Flat walking over some heath. Coastal high- Maria Voitk lands heath with dwarf trees. Area divided into segments with groups DOCUMENTATION responsible for foraging their segment. At Michael Burzynski least 1 1/2 hr’s drive from Lavrock, each way. Brad Butler Melissa Creasey Claudia Hanel 9. Brother Brennan Environmental Susan Knight Education Centre (private) Anne Marceau Boreal forest, trails, easy walking. Probably Meherzad Romer signature trail for the Avalon Forest Ecoregion. Roger Smith Kenny Tuach Aare Voitk and many others 1 Roger Zilkowski Corner Brook NL PARTICIPANTS Graham Zilkowski Corner Brook NL Reverse alphabetical order. Tony Wright Toronto ON Marianna Wright Toronto ON Marian Wissink St John's NL Gary Warren Corner Brook NL Ann Walsh Sharbot Lake ON Maria Voitk Humber Village NL It is a sad comment on our society Andrus Voitk Humber Village NL Aare Voitk Humber Village NL but I removed the e-mail addresses Kenny Tuach Corner Brook NL that are usually found here. Many peo- Greg Thorn London ON Vito Testa Toronto ON ple find these a convenient way to Sue Sullivan Humber Village NL stay in touch with some of the partici- Helen Spencer Torbay NL Beth Spencer Torbay NL pants they befriended at the foray. Geert Spanoge Drongen Belgium Unfortunately this practice is no Arjen Spanoge Drongen Belgium Vello Soots Don Mills ON longer safe. This report will be distrib- Roger Smith Fredericton NB uted electronically and posted on our Meherzad Romer Corner Brook NL Bill Richards Fort Saskatchewan AB website. Spammers send spiders or Mac Pitcher Holyrood NL crawl engines all over public sites and Laura Park Harbour Main NL Jorinde Nuytinck Drongen Belgium copy any e-mail addresses found there Tuula Niskanen Helsinki Finland to add to their lists for future spam Faye Murrin St John's NL Anita Moyst Glouchester ON distribution. Thus any address posted Kevin McAleese St Johnʼs NL on our site will eventually attract Judy May Humber Village NL John Maunder Pouch Cove NL spam. Anne Marceau Rocky Harbour NL Phyllis Mann Pasadena NL Henry Mann Pasadena NL Apparently if you put your address up Dave Malloch Little Lepreau NB as a graphic or image, most spiders Ethel Luhtanen Calgary AB Kare Liimatainen Helsinki Finland will not recognize it as a bona fide e- Eugene Koczkur Scarborough ON mail address and will not copy it. With Susan Knight St John's NL Clara Jenniex Humber Village NL the fast pace of technology, even this Nancy Ironside Orillia ON may have only a limited time to work. Gerald Hussey Bonavista NL Karen Herzberg St John's NL Gene Herzberg St John's NL Therefore, if you lost somebody’s e- Pat Hayward Rigolet Labrador Claudia Hanel Corner Brook NL mail whom you wish to contact, Sarah Graham Corner Brook NL please let me know and I’ll be pleased Jeri Graham Corner Brook NL Jamie Graham Corner Brook NL to send it to you. My address is on Alan Gan Richmond Hill ON the obvious graphic below: Heather Ewing Battersea ON Melissa Creasey Corner Brook NL Nathalie Djan-Chékar Witless Bay NL Ava Djan-Chékar Witless Bay NL Michael Burzynski Rocky Harbour NL Brad Butler Corner Brook NL Pat Burchell Don Mills ON Britt Bunyard Germantown WI Diethard Bohme Concord ON Randy Batten Conception Bay S NL Fredrik Alfer Stockholm Sweden 2 PROGRAM LINNÆUS TERCENTENARY FORAY FRIDAY, Sep 15, 2006 SUNDAY, Sep 17, 2006 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM 8:40 AM Cape St Maryʼs Mycoblitz Group photo on the grounds 9:00 AM – OUTSIDE 4:00 PM Pick for the Pot with Judy May & Maria Voitk Welcome reception Corts in the woods with Kare Liimatainen Hosted by the people of Newfoundland and Labrador through the Bugs n Slugs in the woods with Britt Bunyard Ministry of Environment & Conservation, The Hon. Clyde Jackman, MHA, Minister. 9:00 AM – INSIDE 7:00 PM Tables with Vello Soots Mushroom ID Contest winners & other impor- Lactarii with Jorinde Nuytinck tant stuff Microscopy with Dave Malloch 7:45 PM 10:00 AM – INSIDE CAROLUS LINNÆUS TERCENTENARY Tables with Greg Thorn Corts with Tuula Niskanen PANEL DISCUSSION Dave Malloch, Tuula Niskanen, Jorinde 11:00 AM – OUTSIDE Nuytinck, Greg Thorn: Foto Phoray with Vello Soots Concepts around the species concept Corts in the woods with Tuula Niskanen 11:00 AM – INSIDE SATURDAY, Sep 16, 2006 Tables with Faye Murrin & Gary Warren Lactarii with Jorinde Nuytinck 9:00 AM Microscopy with Greg Thorn Forays 12:00 PM – INSIDE 5:00 PM Tables with Dave Malloch Quidi Vidi Mushroom QuuQup and Russulae with Jorinde Nuytinck BBQ roadkill mooseburgers 2:00 PM 7:00 PM CAROLUS LINNÆUS TERCENTENARY Find of the day & Forager of the day awards & GUEST LECTURE other important stuff Britt Bunyard: 7:15 PM Evolution of fungi—600 million years in Britt Bunyard: Whatʼs eating you? 60 minutes 8:15 PM Andrus Voitk: 3:00 PM 4 yrs & 5 forays—what have we learned? Wrap-up & Thank you 3 REPORT From empty to full (and identified) in 48 hrs This year’s Foray was sponsored by its several kind part- trails and each other. We ners: The Department of Environment, & Conser- enjoyed our largest ever vation, the Hon. Clyde Jackman, Minister (Parks & number of participants: Natural Areas Division, Wildlife Division, Salmonier mushroom enthusiasts Nature Park), The Department of Tourism, Culture & from Labrador, the Great Recreation, the Hon. Tom Hedderson, Minister (The Northern Peninsu-la, Central Newfoundland, the West Coast and the Avalon (yes, even St John’s) joined visitors from Alberta, Belgium, Finland, USA, Ontario and New Brunswick to Amanita wellsii forage the autumn woods of the Avalon Peninsula for species to be identified with the help of experts. Most were veterans of previous for- ays, with a little under one-quarter of the participants as newcomers to our foray. Youth was again noticeable this year: four children and a significant number of students, Gannet Rock with about 25% of participants in their thirties or less. Rooms Corporation, Provincial Museum) Gros Morne Cooperating Association, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University, Gros Morne National Park, Terra Nova National Park and Quidi Vidi Brewing Company. The Foray started with a Faculty Foray, providing our experts an informal forum to meet our mushrooms, our The new sport of tuckdiving The Foray opened with a reception by the Department of Environment & Conservation. Pictures of Cape St Mary’s and other memorabilia were presented to our out of province guest faculty members on behalf of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador via the Department of Foraging the Cape’s barrens Environment & Conservation.