Fort Stevens Mushroom Regulations State Park & Historical Site • Harvesting small quantities of mushrooms at Fort Stevens Fort Stevens is allowed for personal use only. Commercial picking is prohibited. Vicinity Maps State Park • Picking in the campground is prohibited. TO WASHINGTON C olumbia River Trestle Wildlife Limit your search to the day-use areas. South Viewing Jetty Bay Bunker Historic Area Columbia River Military Museum Observation Batteries • Park only in designated parking areas. Clatsop HAMMOND Platform Spit Do not park on the road shoulders. ASTORIA HAMMOND

• Picking of psilocybin (hallucinogenic) Fort Stevens 30 Swash Lake State Park Wildlife Viewing mushrooms is a felony and therefore prohibited. Deck Guide to Mushrooms 202 WARRENTON Day-Use Area

Equipment and Tools 101 Wreck of the PACIFIC BUS “Peter Iredale” Youngs WARRENTON • A field guide to identify mushrooms. OCEAN River Fort • A knife or trowel to cut or dig up mushrooms. 101 Clatsop PACIFIC Ridge Road National O CEAN Coffenbury Lake • Bucket, basket or container to store mushrooms. Memorial Lewis and Clark 101 Avoid using plastic bags. Mushrooms “sweat” in River plastic bags. To Seaside

TO WASHINGTON C olumbia River Trestle Wildlife South Viewing Jetty Bay Bunker Historic Area And alwaysColumbia remember- River Military Museum Observation Batteries Clatsop HAMMOND Platform WhenSpit in doubt, throw it out! ASTORIA HAMMOND

Fort Stevens 30 Swash Lake State Park Wildlife Viewing Deck 202 WARRENTON Day-Use Area

101 Wreck of the PACIFIC BUS “Peter Iredale” Youngs WARRENTON OCEAN River Fort 101 Clatsop PACIFIC Ridge Road National O CEAN Coffenbury Lake Memorial Lewis and Clark 101 River 63400-8153 (5/14) Printed on recycled paper. To Seaside More information? Call the Oregon State Park Information Center: 1-800-551-6949 or visit the Oregon state parks website: www.oregonstateparks.org This publication is available in alternative formats. Call 1-800-551-6949 For hearing impaired, call: 1-800-735-2900 All information and prices subject to change without notice. A number of mushroom species lives and grows Russula White in Fort Stevens State Park. This brochure is an introduction to some of the more common fungi Species Matsutake The varieties of Russula (Tricholoma found in the park. Please use a reliable field magnivelare) guide to identify mushrooms you intend to eat. mushrooms number in the hundreds. They range The White Matsutake in color from bright red is found occasionally Remember: Don’t eat it if you to green to white. Some in late fall in the are edible and some are Fort Stevens forests. don’t know what it is. poisonous. The species is common and can be identified by Also called the pine Copyright Joy Spurr their stems, which break in half like a piece of chalk. mushroom, it typically grows beneath shore pine trees. This mushroom is highly prized in Japan and Asia, where King Bolete Lobster it garners high prices in markets and restaurants. The (Boletus edulis) Matsutake smell is unforgettable; a spicy odor described Mushroom as a cross between cinnamon candy and dirty socks! The King Bolete is a (Hypomyces very large mushroom lactifluorum) Prince (Agaricus augustus) that grows in the fall The Lobster mushroom after the first heavy is a fascinating fungus The Prince is consid-ered to be a delicious edible. rains. A bulbous fungus that grows on other Identified by its golden cap and almond-like smell, the with a sponge-like layer mushrooms. Lobsters Prince can be found from late summer through fall. They on the underside of the usually attack the short- are rare, and if you are lucky enough to find a patch, you cap, the King Bolete is stemmed Russula. The Lobster mushroom is most abundant are in for a treat. considered a choice edible. Sold in stores under its Italian in late summer and early fall and is delicious when still Prince (Agaricus augustus) name, Porcini. crisp — a definite improvement over the Russula host. Oyster Fly Amanita Mushroom (Amanita muscaria) (Pleurotus ostreatus) Fly Amanita is beautiful Oyster mushrooms grow but poisonous, and on dead trees (typically should never be eaten. alders) year-round. The The Fly Amanita is one mushrooms vary in color of the most well-known from white to brown species because of its and are the shape of an bright red color and oyster shell. The oyster mushroom is delicious. white spots.