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Spore Prints SPORE PRINTS BULLETIN OF THE PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY Number 494 September 2013 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN? 50th ANNUAL WILD MUSHROOM SHOW October 12 & 13, 2013 Milton Tam 7700 Sand Point Way This year will mark our 50th consecutive Joanne Young annual fall mushroom show, where we share our enthusiasm and knowledge of the fungal kingdom with the general public. Randy Richardson and I will serve this year as co-chairs for our show, which will be held at The Mountaineers facility at Magnuson Park on Saturday and Sunday, October 12 and 13. Our event would not be possible without the help of volunteers. Yes, YOU. If you haven’t volunteered yet, you are really miss- ing out! We are able to put on such great shows year after year because of our dedicated volunteers, so please consider joining On Saturday, June 8, 2013, Hildegard Hendrickson left her car, the team. PSMS has so many fabulous and interesting people to along with her purse and ID, at the Minnow Creek Trailhead off work with and to learn from. There are many different activities Chiwawa River Road to pick a few morels in the Chikamin Gulch and tasks available, so please consider signing up for one or both area near the Basalt Peak trail. days. We promise a great experience and access to a not-to-be- When PSMS member Jeremy Faber noticed that her car hadn’t missed continuous potluck in the volunteers’ hospitality room. moved in 3 days, he called the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office. A Sign-up sheets will be at the September and October membership massive effort by aircraft, tracking and scent dogs, and searchers meetings or you can contact me directly at [email protected] or on the ground and on horseback produced no clues to her where- Randy at [email protected]. If you prefer to speak to abouts, and was called off on June 17. She was last seen with her us directly please call 206-525-9556 (Milton) or 206-725-2996 silver metal collection basket and a blue hiking pole while wearing (Randy). You can also contact our volunteer coordinator Debra a tan vest with pockets, a white or light straw hat, and glasses. Lehrberger ([email protected]). Was she a victim of foul play? Did she suffer a medical emergency So here’s how it goes: on the afternoon of Friday, October 11, and wander off confused? We don’t know. We only know she has we start setting up. Members and friends who were out all day been a long-time, integral part of PSMS, and we miss her. foraging for the show in different parts of the state then come by to drop off the mushrooms and duff they have collected, and by A retired faculty member and department chair with Seattle Uni- early evening the place is humming with activity as mushrooms versity’s Albers School of Business and Economics, Hildegard, are sorted and everything is brought out of storage and put in its along with her late husband, Monte, joined PSMS in 1972. In 1997, place. On Saturday morning we start very early and finish setting she and Monte were winners of the PSMS “Golden Mushroom up while the mushrooms are identified, labeled, and artfully ar- Award” presented to those who have helped shape and strengthen ranged in trays. We open to the public at noon on Saturday and run the organization. She was once described in a Seattle P-I article until 7 pm when we put our mushrooms to bed for the night. On in 2004 as “a club legend” who kept detailed notes for decades on Sunday we start again at 10 am and go until 5 pm. After closing, where she found choice mushrooms, even identifying the specific the tear-down and cleanup process is fast and furious, and we leave tree they were near. the facility as clean as we found it. She is perhaps currently best known as the organizer and head Our invited speakers this year include Noah Siegel, Dr. Steve identifier of the free Monday evening sessions at the Center for Trudell, Daniel Winkler, Marian Maxwell, Dr. Bart Buyck, and Urban Horticulture in which anyone can bring in mushrooms to Dr. Denis Benjamin. In addition to the mushroom displays we will have them identified. She also traditionally leads the first PSMS again include mushroom tastings, educational exhibits, arts/crafts, mushroom field trip in the spring vendors, book sales, the identification table, and kids’ touch and Dr. Hendrickson came to Seattle University in 1967 to help start feel table—all the key components that have consistently made its MBA degree program, and taught until 1996. According to the our show fun, educational, and recognized as one of the biggest SU website, she was born in Yugoslavia to a family of German and most well attended in North America. Please volunteer for a origin and came to the U.S. to pursue her education, job, and become a part of the great tradition we have established. MEMBERSHIP MEETING Tuesday, September 10, 2013, at 7:30 pm at the Center for Urban Spore Prints Horticulture, 3501 NE 41st Street, Seattle. is published monthly, September through June by the We start the fall meetings by welcoming Dr. Jim PUGET SOUND MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY Johnson from Central Washington University in Center for Urban Horticulture, Box 354115 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195 Ellensburg. The title of his presentation is “Sex (206) 522-6031 http://www.psms.org and the Single Spore.” Jim graduated from East- ern Illinois University with a bachelor’s degree OFFICERS: Marian Maxwell, President2012–2015 in Environmental Biology. While working on his [email protected] (425) 235-8557 master’s thesis in grad school, he became interest- Milton Tam, Vice President2013–2014 [email protected] (206) 525-9556 ed in fungal mating and compatibility systems. He received his John Goldman, Treasurer2012–2014 PhD in Plant Pathology from the University of Tennessee where [email protected] (206) 933-0838 the research for his dissertation included the use of mating sys- Denise Banaszewski, Secretary2013–2015 tems and molecular characteristics to study speciation and species TRUSTEES: 2013–2015: boundaries in Xeromphalina species. Nick Herschberger, Larry Lee, After completing his Ph.D., Jim did his postdoctoral research Debra Lehrberger, Danny Miller, at Duke University, where he was part of a team that looked at Ed Sakai large-scale evolutionary relationships within the mushroom-form- 2012–2014: ing fungi. He then taught at Cameron University in Oklahoma Luise Asif, Teddy Basladynski, before relocating to Central Washington University where he is Jon Hall, Andrea Rose, Reba Tam now Associate Professor in the Biology department. His course offerings include Mycology, Field Mycology, Plant Pathology, ALTERNATE: Brady Raymond Fundamentals of Biology, Introductory Microbiology, Introduction SCI. ADVISOR: Dr. Steve Trudell to Evolution, and General Biology. His main research interests include mycology, molecular systematics, molecular ecology, and EDITOR: Agnes A. Sieger, 271 Harmony Lane, amphibian diseases. Well-travelled, Jim has been on collecting Port Angeles, WA 98362 trips all over the Southeastern United States and to Alaska, the [email protected] Caucasus Mountains in Russia, and parts of eastern Turkey. Annual dues: single or family $30; full-time students $20 tend our lease on our current terms, including the right to cancel CALENDAR the lease with one year’s advance notice. We plan to renew our lease, but look for other options in case it is terminated. Finally, Sept. 10 Membership Meeting, 7:30 pm, CUH as everyone probably knows by now, beloved member Hildegard Sept. 16 Board Meeting, 7:30 pm, CUH Board Room Hendrickson disappeared on June 8 on a morel hunt near Lake Sept. 17 Spore Prints deadline Wenatchee. She is still missing, and there have been no develop- ments in the investigation. Hildegard contributed to PSMS in many Sept. 27–29 Field Trip (see PSMS website) ways, including starting the Monday night ID clinics, which will Oct. 4–6 Field Trip (see PSMS website) now be named after her. We are considering other ways to honor Oct. 8 Membership Meeting, 7:30 pm, CUH Hildegard and her contributions to PSMS, and continue to hope for news on our friend. Oct. 12–13 50th Annual Wild Mushroom Show, The Mountaineers facility, Magnuson Park NEW RULES ON OREGON’S TRUFFLES: GET PERMITS, KEEP RECORDS BOARD NEWS Denise Banaszewski http://www.kval.com/, Aug. 16, 2013 The Annual Wild Mushroom Show is coming up, and, as always, Legislation passed earlier this year added truffles to the “edible we need volunteers to ensure that it is a success. Milton Tam and fungi” category of special forest products. They now join other Randy Richardson are co-hosting the show this year. Thank you, harvest-regulated products like firewood, salal, wild mushrooms, Milt and Randy! Please see the article on page 1 for information on and tree boughs. whom to contact to volunteer. The Board received and declined a request for a Ben Woo Scholarship for a knapweed study because House Bill 2615 requires truffle hunters to get a permit from a it was not focused enough on fungi. We have accumulated lost landowner before venturing out into the woods. The bill also states items from various events, including field trips. We do not have that businesses buying Oregon truffles need to make records of the room to store them indefinitely, so we will only keep unclaimed their purchases. items for a few months before donating them. If you have lost an While the Oregon Department of Forestry plans on making a per- item, please be sure to inquire about it promptly.
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