- Date: October 16, 2020 (Friday)
- Location: Coast
- Required mushroom permits: – None required.
- Parking passes – Federal & State if you have them, please bring.
- # of participants: 9, children accompanied by an adult are welcome, no dogs/pets
Join CMS for a foray to the Coast with Chris Melotti. We do have new rules due to COVID-19. A lot fewer persons, no carpooling, masks required, and we will be social distancing whenever we are in a group.
You will be able to forage for mushrooms. But, we are hoping you will be willing to bring your cell phone with you and capture photos of mushrooms for the Virtual Mushroom Display, for our Virtual Mushroom Festival. Friday, October 16th, is the first day of the Mycoblitz event on INaturalist. Watch the video below and check out the Festival Mycoblitz page to learn more.
Chris Melotti (current Board Member, Speaker Coordinator & Vice President)
Chris is a Wildlife & Ecology Consultant, a former BLM Wildlife Biologist, and grew up in Pennsylvania in a mushroom loving family. After attending LCC’s Biology of Mushrooms taught by the famous Freeman Rowe in 1995, Chris became part of the core group that puts together the Mushroom Display at the annual Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival and subsequently formed the Cascade Mycological Society. You will usually find Chris staffing the Edible and Poisonous Mushroom Display at the Mt. Pisgah Mushroom Festival. He also gives Guided Mushroom Walks at the Yachats Mushroom Festival. Chris has served on the CMS Board continuously since it’s inception. Chris frequently gives talks on the Ecology and Biology of Mushrooms at local community events with his wife, Molly Widmer, another founding CMS board member.
How to Register: CMS Members may login to the CMS Website and register for the foray from the My Membership page.
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