Talk Description: Let’s take a metaphorical walk through some of our coastal forests and see what might be fruiting this month. This talk will cover some local species that you can expect to see or be on the lookout for. We’ll talk about ecology and identification. The talk will be geared toward folks who are newer to mushrooming, but will also include points of interest for veterans with the ecology!

Speaker Bio: Maria Morrow is a professor of botany and environmental science at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. She grew up in the wonderfully damp city of Seattle and somehow managed to learn nothing about fungi until she moved to California in 2012 and took Terry Henkel’s Forest Pathology course at HSU. Since then, she has been digging in the duff, looking at logs, and even prodding at poop to get a better understanding of this mysterious kingdom of life. She studied fungal genetics and forest pathology at U.C. Berkeley. You can find her on iNaturalist as YipKiyay or every third Wednesday of the month at meetings of the Humboldt Bay Mycological Society.