<p>July/Aug., 2008 Volume 36 Issue 4</p><p>O h i o</p><p>M u s h r o o m S o c i e t y The Mushroom Log 9 am. Sat. Oct. 11 till Noon What to bring: Collecting Miniforay, Sun. Oct. 12. basket, wax bags or wax wrap, Groves Woods, peck basket, knife, mushroom The fall foray this year will be book, notebook, and a pencil. Trumbull Co. held at the Little Beaver Creek Wear clothes for hiking and the Wildlife Education Center in weather conditions. October 5. Meet at 12:30 PM. Little Beaver Creek State Park near Calcutta. Address is Foray will begin at 1 PM. Enjoy Location: from Rte. 11 and roaming over 155 acres of 12021 Echo Dell Rd., E. Liverpool, OH 43920. Besides Rte 30 exit North on Rte 7 Cleveland Museum of Natural toward Rogers. Follow Rte 7 History preserve. Yellow OMS the Little Beaver Creek State Park, we’ll have the option to North. Slow down at Beaver signs will be posted alongside Local High School on the left. the road. Primitive restroom. foray in the Beaver Creek Public Hunting Area and Turn right just past the high Beavercreek Farm. school and before the middle Directions: From the west, school. You are on Bell School proceed along OH St. Rte. 87 to Rd. Turn left onto Echo Dell Girdle Rd., which is the first If mushrooms are fruiting abundantly or even if they are Rd. The Center is located on intersection after you cross the the right past the mobile home Geaga/Trumbull Co line. Turn not we will be collecting in the largest contiguous woodland in park but before the Mill and left onto Girdle Road and go ca. parking lot. There should be a 2-3 miles north to just opposite Northern Ohio. Named for Little Beaver Creek, a designated Beaver Creek St. Park sign at 9859 Girdle Rd. The Woods Rte. 7 at Bell School Rd. and are directly across from it. See wild and scenic river, there are approximately 6000 acres of another at Echo Dell Rd. p. 42 (top right corner) of the Activities will be centered in the Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. forest with native and planted trees offering diverse collecting basement of the building. habitats. Northern flora Fall Foray- including Canada yew, yellow The Schedule and black birch, hemlock and Little Beaver mountain laurel can be found in More Schedule Details will be the deep stream valleys. announced in the Sept./Oct Creek State Upland oak-hickory forest, Log. sycamore-elm bottomland, Park pine-tulip poplar plantations, Fri. evening Oct.10, 7:00 pm and beech-maple areas are all till ?? Board members dinner at present. In addition the Pondi’s in Lisbon. Let Walt presence of the horseman’s know if you plan to attend, so campground and horse trails he can make reservations. By Walt Sturgeon offers another interesting habitat. 2 The Mushroom Log</p><p>Saturday Oct. 11 9:00 am. Lock 30 Woodlands A partial list of those specimens Registration, orientation, and 45529 Middle Beaver Road includes Cantharellus cibarius, refreshments. Lisbon, OH 44432 C. lateritus, Boletus bicolor, B. (330) 424-9197 nobilis B. pallidus, B. variipes, 10:00 & 10:30 Collecting forays Toll Free 1-877-856-2530 Leccinum insigne, Tylopilus depart. plumbeoviolaceus, T. Terrace Lakes Campground rubrobrunneus, Laetiporus Collecting can also be done “on 6157 State Rte. 7 sulphureus, Lactarius volemus, your own”. Sorting, New Waterford, OH 44445 Tremellodendron schweinitzii, identification, and display will be (330) 227-9606 Amanita virosa, A. flavoconia, ongoing as soon as collections Russula krombholzii, and are brought in. There is also camping on site at Pleurotus ostreatus. Lots of the Beaver Creek Primitive others were collected, but 1:00pm Lunch (bring a Campground. Phone 1- before a more complete list covered dish to share and 866/644-6727. could be compiled, Mother tableware. Nature intervened with an 2:00pm Afternoon forays impromptu downpour, which depart. Mini-Foray at sent people running for their cars. 4:30pm Table Walk, and Mt. Gilead St. beginner’s slide program on Park common edible and toxic mushrooms. 17 hardy souls convened at the 5:30pm Review Collections. Park, Saturday morning, July 12. Neither names of the 6:30pm Dinner at a local members nor of many of the restaurant, tba. mushrooms were catalogued. Some anxious members started Sunday Oct. 12 collecting on their own before Dick Grimm took a group Dick with Amanita virosa and 9:30 am Slide program on wax around the parking lot area and Hugh with Boletus bicolor. At caps. If collecting is good, Hugh Urban led a group around least that’s what my eyes tell more foraying. the lake and by the river. me at this distance. 12:30 pm, Clean up. Summer Foray Accommodations: at Dawes East Liverpool area By Dave Miller Hotels Comfort Inn Our summer foray this year was 15860 St. Clair Ave. very warm, rather humid, E. Liverpool somewhat buggy and yielded a (330) 386-3800 good number of species, but not the vast array that the East Liverpool Motor Lodge previously wet season might 2340 Dresden Avenue have spawned. Forty folks East Liverpool attended. (330) 386-5858 Things got going Sat am with Dick Doyle giving an Dick Grimm and Hugh Urban introduction about Dawes and For Camping, the two closest the day ahead and Jerry talking campgrounds are Lock 30 and and others organize the display table with their haul. about collecting. At 10 am most Terrace Lakes: folks searched the Dawes property for specimens while I 3 The Mushroom Log</p><p> joined an exclusive group (only Ohio woman, who ate some of fungus, each of which gives rise 10 people were allowed to one (how she got past its bitter to thousands of orange collect there) that went to Flint taste is a mystery, perhaps she aeciospores, which in turn Ridge. Despite a well sign- was not a “taster”). She transfer the disease from the posted, wide trail, we couldn’t reported seeing vivid colors and crabapple to the juniper. resist what appeared to be a when she erupted in gales of trail but quickly degenerated laughter, her concerned friends Other types of spores will carry into a deer path. But in our decided she should be seen by the disease from the eastern defense, I’m sure we found medics. As they were loading red cedar back to the more mushrooms by taking that her into their car, she was crabapple. Art noted that this little detour. And to keep any heard to murmur, “If this is what particular crabapple, in close rumors getting started, I want it mushroom poisoning is like, proximity to the cedar, was on the record that I was a then I’m all for it!” My students, heavily infected with the rust follower, not a leader of the no strangers to hallucinations disease, while another pack. and inappropriate laughter, crabapple tree, further away used to really enjoy this story, from the cedar and with several Lunch was the usually tasty which David Arora, in his other trees between it and the selection of pot-luck dishes. “Mushrooms Demystified”, also cedar, was much less infected. Walt gave a great talk with his relates. Joe Christian lamented that he extensive collection of slides on has a lot of trouble with this rust “Wood Munching Agarics.” By the time Walt finished, the disease infecting his crabapple heat outside led me to decide to trees. To Be Cont’d next Log. Amongst the long list of spend the rest of the afternoon mushrooms Walt discussed, helping Walt, Jerry, John three deserve special mention. Plishcke III, and others identify New Mushroom First was Phyllotopsis nidulans. and organize the specimens Magazine Of particular interest was into their respective Dawes and pinning down an apt description Flint Ridge piles. (Species lists By Carol Deptolla of its foul odor (my favorite is will follow in the next Log.) The “like sewer gas”). Interestingly, more intrepid among us went Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May Dick Doyle noted that Charles back out to both sites for I5, 2008 McIlvaine describes it as having another foray. a “pleasant, mild” taste. And he Mushrooms are popping up, says that it is “edible but not One discovery that got me and so is a new magazine all desirable. Must be chopped outside was John Plishcke’s about them. fine and cooked well.” He does entreaty to “come see this great not mention the odor. We also looking diseased tree”. Not far Fungi, based in Richfield, discussed the fact that Dick from the Education Center was [Wisc.] celebrated its launch in Doyle had delved into its a variety of ornamental conjunction with two five course chemistry and isolated an odd Hawthorn (Crataegus sp.) mushroom dinners: at Heaven amino acid from it Japanese which was almost covered in City in Mukwonago on Sunday, workers found the same amino bright orange, infected lesions. and at Sanford in Milwaukee on acid in Tricholomopsis rutilans See photo at bottom right Tuesday. and T. decora. Most amino corner of page 7. Art Trese, acids get incorporated into the who teaches Plant Pathology at Britt Bunyard of Richfield-who proteins of the organism which Ohio University in Athens, holds a doctorate in mycology, produces them, but this one explained the pathogen was the study of mushrooms-is the does not. Second, Gymnosporangium publisher and editor-in-chief of Schizophyllum commune, the clavarioforme, a rust fungus the new, full-color magazine, called Fungi. small grayish-white “split gill” which infects both hawthorn has been found growing on the crabapple (Crataegus) and the Fungi made its debut this toe nails of patients with eastern red cedar (Juniperus) at month, and will publish five suppressed immune systems. different stages of its complex times a year: four seasonal The third mushroom of interest life cycle. The orange horn-like issues and one special themed was Gymnopilus spectabilis, the projections emerging from the issue. This year's special issue, “Laughing Big Jim” . Walt crabapples and some leaves due in early fall, will be related the anecdote of the are the aecial stage of the 4 The Mushroom Log</p><p> dedicated to truffles, including really dirt, it's humus. At least, As long as there is enough air those found in such unexpected it will be when they're done with and moisture, though, and the places as the desert and it. Then the humus will be temperature is kept at least 131 Oregon, Bunyard said. bagged, ready to be spread on degrees Fahrenheit to kill weed gardens, orchards, and seeds and pathogens, the good The magazine is aimed at vineyards across the state. bacteria and fungi grow like amateur and professional crazy. All that's needed to mycologists alike, and its Not to be confused with the maintain the high temperature offerings will include how-to contents of your pita wrap, is the activity of the bacteria, articles on topics such as humus is a soil amendment that which creates heat, and the cultivating mushrooms, as well results when wood chips and plastic bag to keep it in. as peer-reviewed technical other organic waste are papers. composted. Humus is stable, After seven to 10 days in the meaning that decomposition is bag, the humus is moved by Articles in the inaugural issue complete. It's chock-full of front-end loader into a power include "Mushroom Love, critters that are beneficial to screener, a kind of truck-size Morels: Seasonality, plant life. And, in this case, it's sieve. Pieces a half-inch in Meditation, Celebration," approved for use in organic diameter or smaller are ready complete with recipes, and a agriculture by the Organic for shipment to area farmers, or mouthful of a different sort, the Materials Review Institute, a in bags to retailers. The larger scientifically oriented "Myxo- Eugene based nonprofit. pieces are returned to inoculate mycete Plasmodia and Fruiting the next row. Bodies: Unusual Occurrences The main work of creating the and User-friendly Study humus takes place in 1O-by- Cindy Salter, an agronomist Techniques." For more 200 foot green plastic Ag-Bags, who consults on the operation, information, see which lie side by side, looking says that there are hundreds of www.fungimag.com. like giant caterpillars or, as thousands of tiny species in Pacific Land Clearing manager healthy humus, and there can Ed. Note: Glenn Zimmerman puts it, be billions of bacteria per gram Reprinted from the June, 2008 sausages. The process of of soil. issue of Spore Prints, the Bulletin loading the Ag-Bags, of the Puget Sound Mycological Zimmerman says, is "kind of "Each type serves a different Society. Britt has been editing the like a sausage machine, except function in the soil NAMA Newsletter and has now the machine moves away and environment," she says, adding struck out on his own with this new the sausage stays put." that the microorganisms help periodical. Do check it out. buffer the soil against radical Inside the bags is a mix of 30 or fluctuations in temperature and Wood Chips, 40 parts carbon (wood chips) to pH, which can be bad for Food Scraps, one part nitrogen (fruits and plants. vegetables). Nature's Needs Bacteria, and buys the material from The bacteria and fungi live in a Fungi=Humus businesses, including AGG kind of symbiotic relationship Enterprises, a waste hauler and with plants, digesting sugars By Eric Gold distributor, and Organically excreted by the roots and Pamplin Media Group, Grown, a wholesale organic returning nitrogen and other Feb. 12, 2008 produce distributor, and from minerals from the soil to the individuals. plants. "The organisms are On a 66-acre lot in North Plains, essentially the stomach of the Oregon, just off U. S. Highway The material is shredded and plant," she says, even though 26, a few billion workers toil on loaded into the bags, which they are independent a steaming pile of dirt. They have perforated hoses running organisms and live outside the don't mind the cramped and through them, blowing air. If plant's body. filthy conditions, though: they're there isn't enough air, bacteria. Zimmerman says, the nitrogen Salter says that using humus is gets converted to smelly gases more efficient than adding Bacteria, fungi, and related by bacteria that favor an airless nitrogen in the form of microorganisms, that is. And environment. fertilizers, since up to 70 the pile they're working on isn't 5 The Mushroom Log</p><p> percent of that can leach out a remarkable 1980 memoir as LSD. Generations of acid-heads into groundwater. his "problem child": lysergic have gotten a belly laugh out of acid diethylamide. Hofmann's expectation that he "Conventional agriculture is could take coherent notes after always taking, taking; taking" LSD-25, as it was known when. absorbing such a massive hit. nutrients out of the soil, she Hofmann first synthesized it in The part of his "trip report" writ- says. "We haven't really been 1938, was originally just one in ten under the influence is 13 putting back in everything that a long series of ergot-derived words long: "Beginning dizzi- we take out. Compost makes it compounds that he considered ness, feeling of anxiety, visual a sustainable loop." promising. He hoped it would distortions, symptoms of paraly- turn out to be an effective sis, desire to laugh." Even this Reprinted from the March, 2007 "circulatory and respiratory much was scrawled, he later Spore Prints, Bulletin of the Puget stimulant." In animal tests, a said, "only with great effort." Sound Mycological Society. modest clinical effect was Nursed through a three-hour noted, but mostly the subjects trip by a bemused neighbour just became "restless." The and a country doctor, Hofmann Thoughts on Albert batch was discarded. Ergot was was surprised to find that he felt Hofmann expensive, war was well, even refreshed, and that By Colby Cosh approaching, and Hofmann's he could remember his employer, Sandoz, was tight- experience in fine detail. fisted. No one could have imag- The Swiss chemist Albert ined that humans would ever From that day forward the so- Hofmann, who died on Tuesday again synthesize LSD-25. ber, reserved scientist began to at the age of 102, assembled a live a double life. The psychiat- remarkable track record as an But Hofmann had had a ric profession embraced LSD, investigator - one that stretched "peculiar presentiment," and and in the '50s its power to im- back to the wild-west days of five years later, on April 16, pose the cosmic perspective chemistry and pharmacy, when 1943, he made more, hardly and distort the ego showed ventilated fume hoods were knowing what he would do with promise in treating psychosis. considered an expensive it. The new batch amounted to While acting as chief consultant affectation, occasional self- a speck of a few centigrams. As to this research program, experimentation was not only he was finishing up, he was, in Hofmann became a confidant permitted but expected, and a the words of the lab report he and friend to non-academic lone individual was involved in later scribbled, "interrupted" by experimenters like Aldous every stage of drug discovery a feeling of dizziness that Huxley (whose last words on from conceptualization to obliged him to abandon his earth were a request for an fabricating the pills. As a desk and go home, where he intramuscular jab of LSD). In graduate student Hofmann lay down and was regaled with later years, he "also had to calm revealed the structure of insect "an uninterrupted stream of freaked-out youths who occa- chitin; later he would master the fantastic pictures, extraordinary sionally turned up at his office complex chemical world found shapes with intense, or his home, explaining to one within ergot [Claviceps kaleidoscopic play of colors." young American girl that her purpurea], a cereal fungus plan to secretly dose President disease with a fantastical range On recovery, it seemed clear to Lyndon Johnson probably of effects on the human him that he had accidentally wasn't very practical. nervous system. His ergot- ingested a microscopic amount derived "children," as he called of something toxic-something Before long the genie escaped them, would include drugs that with a hallucinatory strength per the bottle. This was largely remain in the pharmacopoeia to gram far transcending that of owing to Harvard lecturer this day: methergine to prevent any known substance. He Timothy Leary, whose obstetrical bleeding, the anti- had been working with LSD, so experiments with psychedelics, dementia vasodilator hydergine, it was the obvious candidate. which began in 1960, gradually dihydergot for migraine. Clearly a further experiment, strayed further and further carefully documented as it hap- outside the lab. By 1963, But Hofmann, as often hap- pened, was in order. Hofmann reflected ruefully, pens, reserved the greatest af- "The experiments had turned fection for what he referred to in On April 19, 1943, he deliber- into LSD parties," and Leary ately took a quarter-milligram of had become a messiah of LSD. 6 The Mushroom Log</p><p>Meanwhile, amateur chemists Many people try to limit or even The idea came about when had mastered the intricacies of avoid eggs in their diet because both companies were seeking its production, and its influence of the high cholesterol an alternative to antibiotics in outside the controlled setting concentrated in the yolk. But animal feeds. was proving ambivalent, though eggs aren't about to go out of surely never quite so evil as style yet, as researchers "There have been concerns all hysterical newspaper critics suggest that eating them over the world about the use of made out. increases both "good" and antibiotics to reduce disease "bad" cholesterol. and boost growth in livestock," Hofmann and Leary had only said Dr. Mark Xu, managing one genuine conversation And then there are egg director and chief executive sharing lunch at a train station producers like Chew's officer of AP Nutripharm. in Lausanne in 1971 after Agriculture, right here in Leary's escape from a Singapore, that work to make "Antibiotic resistance by California prison. Hofmann lec- the goodness of eggs even microorganisms that cause tured the American about his better. Chew's Agriculture, in disease in humans and animals publicity-seeking and his collaboration with AP has risen sharply and there's dangerous habit of giving LSD Nutripharm, has come up with evidence that this resistance is to the young. Leary replied, with what it says is a world first-the promoted by the antibiotics customary asininity, that doing Cordyceps egg. given to animals." so was perfectly safe "because teenagers in the United States, Cordyceps sinensis belongs to The chickens were actually fed with regard to information and a family of parasitic fungi that with NuV Cordyceps sinensis life experience, were attack a species of caterpillar in mycelium, to boost their weight. comparable to adult winter. When the caterpillar is And though there was consider- Europeans." Hofmann left the hibernating, this fungus slowly able weight gain in the station more confident than eats away at it and, by the end chickens, the amount of fungus ever that Leary was a menace- of winter, the process is needed for this was far too the man who had led his complete, and the caterpillar expensive. But the experiment "problem child" astray. He was now looks like a plant. A literal showed that cordycepin (an to die awaiting the day that translation of the Chinese term active Cordyceps compound) proper research into its healing for Cordyceps is "winter worm, did find its way into the eggs, potential could resume. summer plant." said Dr Xu. </p><p>1 May 2008. The Chinese discovered the After several experiments with nationalpost.com. health benefits of Cordyceps various amounts of Cordyceps sinensis centuries ago when in the feed, the lab came up From the May, 2008 The Spore they noticed that sheep which with the minimum that, though it Print, The Journal of the Los grazed on it were stronger and wouldn't result in much larger Angeles Mycological Society, healthier. Traditional herbalists chickens, would allow them to Inc. then began using the fungus for lay eggs containing cordycepin curing several diseases. ONE-OF-A-KIND "Cordycepin has proven to Although wild Cordyceps are contain anticancer and disease-</p><p>EGG said to be the most powerful, resistant properties," said Dr they are quite expensive and Xu. "As for the Cordyceps eggs, By Josephine Huang The Straits Times, Singapore, difficult to buy in many parts of they have only been launched January 14, 2008 via the world. Therefore, the last month. So their benefits are http://health.asiaone.com cultivated forms of the fungus yet to be appreciated. are the most popular and widely Ed. Note: Cordyceps keeps turning spread. "However, this is not a drug. It up in various guises. Perhaps you is a food and we are not out to recall Dan Winkler’s articles on the Cultivated Cordyceps, produced prove that it has curative cottage industry in Tibet, collecting here in Singapore by AP Nu- powers.” and selling it to the Chinese. This tripharm, are what is used in the was published in two Logs, feed for the chickens that lay "Apart from the cordycepin March/Apr. and May/June of 2005. Cordyceps eggs. nutrients, the eggs are 30% lower than ordinary eggs in 7 The Mushroom Log</p><p> cholesterol and have a 4 percent of the daily value of Newsletter reviewed a dramatically improved texture vitamin D. No other fresh fascinating account of Tom with a smooth, 'bouncier' white vegetable or fruit has vitamin D. Volk’s April Mushroom of the and sweeter yolk." Month, Profolias downhoki, a 4. Good for you: Mushrooms' fungus isolated from a That might explain why they are antioxidant capacity is kangaroo pouch. Even more pricier. Chew's Cordyceps comparable to that of brightly striking was its ability to turn Eggs, available at Shop n Save, colored vegetables such as green in the light because it Prime, Cold Storage, NTUC tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, red contained chloroplasts. DNA Fairprice and some organic peppers and broccoli. analysis revealed its chloroplast shops, retail at $3.95 for a pack DNA was related to that of of six (Ed. Note: that’s 5. Hold the burger: Data mosses. They cultured it on Singapore Dollars!). That's suggest if men substituted a 4- kangaroo dextrose agar (KDA). about twice the price you would ounce grilled portabella Intrigued, and always on the usually pay for 10 eggs. mushroom for a 4-ounce grilled lookout for “cutting edge” hamburger over the course of a science for Log fodder, I clicked From the March, 2008 issue of year, and didn't change on Tom’s “references” and Spore Prints, the Bulletin of the anything else, they could save found the whole thing to be an Puget Sound Mycological Society. more than 18,000 calories and elaborate April Fool’s joke. I nearly 3,000 grams of fat. took solace that quite a few That's the equivalent of 5.3 others had been duped. Five Things You pounds, or 30 sticks of butter. Despite this bit of tomfoolery 28 April 2008. Mushroomcoun- (Groan!), I highly recommend Didn't Know cil.com. you consult his website About Mushrooms TomVolkFungi.net Just be From the May, 2008 issue of The wary of April’s Fungus of the Spore Print, The Journal of the Los Month. Margo Kraus, a registered dieti- Angeles Mycological Society. tian and consultant for The Mushroom Council, advises: Articles for the next newsletter 1. 20 calories: Just a handful of mushrooms may be nature's Deadline –Sept. 25 hidden treasure for healthier meals. Mushrooms have David Miller essential nutrients that are good 352 W. College St. for heart health and help boost Oberlin, OH 44074 immunity. With just 20 calories [email protected] per serving, they have fewer Close-up of leaves and calories than a rice cake. crabapples of Crataegus, infected by cedar-apple rust. 2. Flavor: Mushrooms have um- The Saga of The fungus grows into long ami - the fifth taste. They add Profolias downhoki finger-like projections emerging savory flavor when paired with from the fruit. These release other foods. thousands of orange spores, By Dave Miller the accumulation of which can 3. Vitamin D: an average be seen on the leaves below A recent issue of the Maine the crabapples. serving of mushrooms contains Mycological Association’s </p><p>Calendar of Events</p><p>OMS Events 8 The Mushroom Log</p><p>Email Jerry at Metroparks, depending on mushroom display. [email protected] weather! Conducted by Walt to receive notification of Dave Miller (440) 774-8143. Sturgeon. Free. impromptu events. Check your most recent issue of Oct. 5 (Sun.) Mini-Foray— Sept. 13th (S ) Beaver Creek the Mushroom Log for Grove’s Woods, Trumbull State Park, at the Nature event updates and for Co., Pete & Pauline Munk. Center, 5 hour mushroom more detailed information. (440) 236-9222. See page 1 workshop, conducted by Please plan to join us. All for details Walt Sturgeon. Registration mini-and morel forays are and Fee, contact the Nature subject to cancellation. Email Jerry as instructed Center or Park Office.(330) Call first to confirm. above. 385-3091. Please bring a whistle and compass and RSVP the Sept. 20 (Sat.)—Western PA host so they have Oct. 11-12 Fall Foray, Mushroom Club’s 7th Annual cancellation flexibility. Little Beaver Creek Nature Gary Lincoff Mid-Atlantic Center at Beaver Creek Mushroom Foray, North Park State Park, near Calcutta PA. $25 for WPMC members, OH. Details on page 1. $50 non-members.See their Other impromptu mini forays, website www.wpamushroomclub.org as follows: Sat. Nov.15th. Annual Dick Questions? John Stuart, Grimm Banquet. Buckeye Pres. of WPMC An open invitation to anyone Lake Yacht Club. Details [email protected] who wants to mushroom tba. hunt in Fredericktown. Call Dick Grimm (740) 694-0782, and if he’s available and Ohio & Regional National & More there are mushrooms in the woods, he will go. September 18-21---2008 Aug. 10th(S ) Scenic Vista NAMA Foray in McCall, ID . Park, Wayne Bridge Rd., just See their website, Aug. or Sept. Mini-foray. west of Lisbon, 2:00-4:00. www.namyco.org, for Chance Creek, Lorain Co. Outdoor mushroom hike and details</p><p>Membership Application for the Ohio Mushroom Society</p><p>NAME </p><p>ADDRESS </p><p>CITY STATE ZIP </p><p>TELEPHONE FAX </p><p>EMAIL ADDRESS 9 The Mushroom Log</p><p>Enclosed please find check or money order: $10.00 (family) annual _____ $125 life ______enrolling me in the Ohio Mushroom Society. My interests are:</p><p>Mushroom Eating/Cookery Photography Nature Study </p><p>Mushroom ID Cultivation Other (specify) </p><p>Would you like to be an OMS volunteer? In what way? </p><p>How did you hear about our group?______</p><p>SIGNATURE </p><p>May OMS provide your name to other mushroom related businesses? Yes____No </p><p>Return form and money to: Ohio Mushroom Society, c/o Jerry Pepera, P. O. 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