Oregon
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Coast to Coast Fall Mushroom Tour 2019
Accompanied by my son-in-law Mike for a good portion of it, I was privileged last month to launch Mushroom Obsession’s Fall 2019 Coast-to-Coast Mushroom Tour! Here’s a quick report of the outbound leg (Washington to Pennsylvania) Continue reading
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Don’t Look Now, But There’s a Humongous Fungus Among Us!
First stop on our seven-day National Mushroom Tour was the Malheur National Forest in northeast Oregon, home of the world’s largest single living organism, an Armillaria ostoyae (Honey Mushroom) infestation in the pine forest Continue reading
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“There You Are, My Precious!!!” (My First Morel Find of the Season)
I know … mushroom-obsessed people can be a little creepy sometimes. I felt a bit like Gollum, two weekends ago, when my son Nathan and I went on our first morel-hunting foray down into Oregon, and he snapped this photo of me sneaking up on my first morel find of the season, a nice yellow… Continue reading