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The Mycophile 61.4 July/August 2021 Bruch’s Colorado Delicious Dozen Pg. 4 CONAMA 2021 Pg. 8 Meeting an Interesting Mind Pg. 11 Call for Sample Submissions Pg. 17 July-August 2021 www.namyco.org LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT an Introduction to new NAMA Public Relations Intern To raise NAMA’s visibility and identity when interest people and that I want to continue to further my skills in mushrooms as food, medicine, and environmental in Spanish. Public relations made the most sense to heroes is growing, I want to amplify our public me for a career choice because the opportunities in relations and outreach efforts. So early in 2021, I this field are vast. I can work with large corporations, proposed a college-level public relations internship or I can be a freelancer and work for myself. That to our Executive Board. From there, I succeeded in kind of flexibility is essential to me because it allows getting a college-credit earning internship approved me to expand my breadth of knowledge. at Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. NAMA Marketing Thankfully, NAMA has taken me on as an intern for Chair Kathy Yerich of the Minnesota Mycological the summer and given me many projects to help with Society, San Diego Mycological Society President and and to help me figure out what I like and what I’m Southwest Regional Trustee Michele Jachimowitz, good at. and I conducted interviews. Candidate Kendra Bries Barbara: How do you see yourself and your career stood out because of her creative thinking and warm unfolding in the next 5-10 years? demeanor, and openness to ideas. In this issue of The Mycophile, I am happy to be introducing her to you: Kendra: Honestly, I don’t know. I’ve never had a long- term plan for my future. I know that I want to help Barbara: Since NAMA members will be meeting you people. I enjoy helping people connect with each at the Colorado foray and perhaps in other contexts other and find places where they feel welcome and at such as email, tell us more about yourself. How and home. Organizations are a big part of creating these why did you decide to major in public relations? spaces. By working with an organization, I can help Kendra: My start in public relations hasn’t always them create spaces and create a brand identity that been clear. I entered college as an open option welcomes members old and new. Whether that’s in student at Iowa State University. The two things that I an international nonprofit or at a more intimate level, I knew then and that I still know are that I want to help haven’t decided yet. But that’s the fun thing about the future; I can figure out what I like as I go. I can see myself doing a lot of different jobs just to explore. Barbara: You also majored in Spanish and studied abroad in Spain! Please share some of your ideas about how NAMA can better engage with the southern part of North America! Kendra: A big part of getting different people to be a part of the same group is ensuring that they feel welcome. The new translator feature on the website is a good step because now people from Canada, Central America, and Mexico can translate it to their native language. It is also helpful for members of NAMA based in the United States. They may speak Spanish either as their second language or as their only language. It would also be interesting to learn if mushrooms are treated differently in different North American cultures, and NAMA could facilitate that conversation. In the future, there could be the possibility of having more international forays in other COVER PHOTO: Boletus mottiae by Dr. Britt Bunyard 2 | The Mycophile 2021 July-August countries to help members experience other cultures what endocrinology is. Overall, NAMA should stick and how those cultures interact with mushrooms. with the North American Mycological Association because it helps people understand what NAMA Barbara: I want to interrupt here, Kendra, to does. show members the good things you’ve already accomplished: the addition of a translator to our Barbara: Can you share some of the questions you webpage so that members can choose the language might ask our members when you are in attendance they use. We know that the Montreal club uses at the annual foray in Colorado? French, and we want to attract Mexican and Central American clubs. Right now, it’s at the bottom of our Kendra: Here’s a short list of some questions I might homepage, but with the help of web wizards Jane ask. Onorati and Kristen Blizzard, it will be moved to the • What first got you interested in mushrooms? top, along with the addition of our name in French • Why did you join NAMA? and Spanish. You’ve inspired us to make it clear that we advance and support mycology throughout this • What is your favorite part of forays? continent—and you’ve given us concrete ways to act • What is your favorite way to use mushrooms in on this mission. your daily life? Barbara: Like many Iowans, you did some morel If you see me at the Colorado foray, feel free to come hunting as a child. But did you ever imagine that up to me. I’m happy to have the opportunity to help mushrooms and mushroom-loving people would be NAMA grow and to learn more about what makes a part of your life and career? mushrooms an influential part of our lives and of the Earth. Kendra: Not at all. I went morel hunting once when I was in elementary school, but I haven’t done it Barbara: Since starting your internship in May, what since. I hear my cousins talk about it when we have are the most interesting and exciting things you’ve family gatherings. Still, I haven’t thought much about learned about NAMA and about fungi? mushrooms until this internship. Kendra: I didn’t know that there were wide networks Barbara: You must be getting some interesting between mushrooms and that the mushroom we see reactions when you tell people about your internship. above ground is like fruit on a tree. I also didn’t realize Please share some of the memorable conversations. that mycology was such a new science. Kendra: Most people are confused as to who I’m Barbara: What do you think we should be promoting interning for. Mycology isn’t a common word outside and communicating? of the community, so I explain it almost every time I Kendra: I think that NAMA should capitalize on the tell people. My brother knew what mycology was, and science side of mushrooms. Most of the media and apparently, he had joined his local club a couple of clubs that I’ve seen focus on the psychological effects weeks ago. and how to use mushrooms in daily life. I haven’t seen Barbara: So are you thinking we should add the word many clubs or media focused on advancing science, “mushroom” to our name? so I think it’s cool to focus on that and really advance a young field of science. Kendra: Not at all. North American Mycological Association is the perfect name for NAMA because Barbara: Finding, collecting, and identifying it encapsulates NAMA’s mission. NAMA’s tagline mushrooms is a big part of our scientific mission; we is “promoting, pursuing and advancing the science also do it fun. Time permitting, are you going to give of mycology.” Even if people don’t know what the it a try at the foray? word mycological means when they first learn about Kendra: I might. I still don’t know that much about NAMA, it’s easily recognized as a scientific term. That mushrooms. I tend to look at the big picture (i.e., scientific aspect of NAMA is what separates it from landscape, animals, etc.) when I hike so I wouldn’t be other clubs about mushrooms. Also, most people likely to look for mushrooms without getting distracted. don’t know the specific word for a branch of science unless it directly influences their lives. Most people Barbara: You just wait. The scenery may become the understand the umbrella terms: biology, ecology, distraction. chemistry, etc. However, if you haven’t seen an endocrinologist before, you probably wouldn’t know 3 | The Mycophile 2021 July-August BRUCH’S COLORADO DELICIOUS DOZEN by Bruch Reed, Executive Secretary, NAMA I am delighted to relay news that, as of this writing, conditions are looking fungally conducive to an incredible Colorado convocation! On the afternoon of June 15, Kristen and Trent Blizzard of Modern Forager sent me the following report: “We [in Colorado] are usually transitioning from snowpack reporting to precipitation reporting in May and June. As of now, the Eastern slopes of the con- tinental divide have gotten good precipitation the last month and seem to be setting up for a poten- tially good season! [The Front Range has] gotten significantly more precipitation the last 30 days.” Keep up those rain-dances and for further anticipa- tion inspiration, here are 12 unapologetically rhap- sodic profiles of some of the mushrooms we are Colorado-coming for: Colorado King Bolete (Boletus rubriceps) Often referred to as “footballs” or “piglets” by lucky locals (who, in particularly abundant years, may be observed both punting them down the steep streets and popping out their window screens to serve as improvised drying racks), you won’t believe your eyes until you behold a Colorado King.
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