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Hildegard Hendrickson Free Public ID Clinic
The spring 2025 ID clinics are in session Mondays from 4pm to 7pm at CUH. For more information click here. We expect to run through June 2nd. As this is subject to change, please always visit our home page to make sure the clinics are on before coming.
Save The Dates
The Ben Woo Foray will be Oct. 17-19th, 2025
Our Annual Wild Mushroom Show will be Oct. 25-26th, 2025
Call For Art !!!
The Puget Sound Mycological Society (PSMS) put out a Call for Art a few weeks ago. Here's the information that you've been waiting for. Thanks for your patience as we worked out the details. Click on this link to direct you to the Rules and Guidelines for submission.
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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If You Suspect
a Poisoning
Contact a physician or Washington Poison Center: 1-800-222-1222
More Poison InformationSpore Prints Newsletter
Spore Prints is the monthly newsletter of PSMS containing announcements of coming events and speakers, plus a variety of tidbits, trivia, recipes, and research developments.
Spore Prints Archive
Harvesting Rules
Washington state is divided into numerous federal, state, local and Native American jurisdictions. Learn the proper rules for each jurisdiction.
Harvesting Information
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025 - 7:30pm
Monthly Meeting
Carrie Tribble
Click here to join this meeting virtually.
Carrie Tribble is an Assistant Professor in Biology at the University of Washington and Curator of the Herbarium at the Burke Museum. She is a plant evolutionary biologist whose research investigates how biodiversity arises and persists, with a focus on monocots and ferns in regions such as the American tropics, Hawai'i, and the Pacific Northwest. In this talk, she will highlight the often-overlooked role of herbaria and other natural history collections-including fungal collections-in understanding and preserving biodiversity. Drawing on stories from the herbarium, Carrie will explore how preserved specimens of fungi and plants alike are used to track ecological change, map species distributions, and uncover evolutionary relationships, emphasizing how these collections support mycological research and broader efforts to confront today's biodiversity crisis.
This meeting will be a "hybrid" meeting both in-person at the Center for Urban Horticulture and virtual on Zoom. Doors open at 7:00 pm. The lecture will start around 7:30 pm.