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Fall 2024 "Hildegard Hendrickson ID Clinics" at CUH are done for the season!
Thank you to everyone who participated and helped out. See you in the spring!PSMS Inclusivity Statement
For over fifty years, the Puget Sound Mycological Society (PSMS) has nurtured collaboration amongst its members for an understanding and appreciation of the wide diversity of mushroom species in the Pacific Northwest. We also depend on a diverse membership to support our mission to foster the understanding and appreciation of mycology as a hobby and a science. In recent months, as systematic inequality in U.S. society is revealed to a broader audience, it becomes clearer that inequality imposes barriers on marginalized groups to participation in a wide variety of activities. PSMS opposes all barriers that limit participation in mycology. PSMS and its board members support a more diverse, inclusive, and welcoming organization where all people, especially those who are underrepresented in our organization and society at large, can enjoy mushrooms and all of the activities associated with them. We realize this will be an on-going conversation and are looking to our members for suggestions on ways to increase diversity, inclusivity, and welcoming. Thank you as we join together to make this long-overdue journey toward systemic equality!
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025 - 7:30pm
Monthly Meeting
Heather Dawson: Truffles, Truffles, Truffles - Celebrating their Diversity
Click here to join this meeting virtually.
This meeting will be a "hybrid" meeting both in-person at the Center for Urban Horticulture and virtual on Zoom. We will start letting people into the CUH meeting hall at about 7:00 pm and into the Zoom meeting at about 7:15. The lecture will begin at approximately 7:30 pm.
We are rapidly approaching Truffle season here in the Pacific Northwest and our January speaker (Heather Dawson) is a PhD candidate at the University of Oregon studying Truffles. With her dog Rye, Heather not only searches for the edible truffles in the forest but she is also endeavoring to get a handle on truffle diversity in our region.
Now more than ever, truffles are gaining in popularity. Our Oregon white and black truffles are highly sought after for their culinary value, but the Pacific Northwest is a hotspot of truffle biodiversity and home to over 350 species of NON-culinary truffles. Heather spends much of her time in the woods looking for hypogeous fungi with her truffle dogs - not just the edible ones, but the non-culinary ones as well. Their diversity might surprise you.
So, please join us Tuesday evening, January 14th, 7:30 pm at the Center for Urban Horticulture / University of Washington - to hear more about Heathers exciting research and the diversity of hypogeous fungi(truffles) in our area.