Cordova Fungus Festival
Be there or be square!
The Cordova Fungus Festival will be on August 28th, 29th, 30th & 31st in 2008. There will be workshops, forays, gourmet dining and experts from the world of mushrooms. Steve Trudell from the University of Washington will lead the mycoblitz! Dorothy Beebee, world famous expert on fiber dyeing with mushrooms will be here! We have Alaskan experts, Kate Mohat and Dominique Collet , and those wild and crazy Cordova Fungus Pluckers! Check it all out on the 2008 Schedule page. Be there or be square!
Come and visit the beautiful South Central Coastal Rainforest of Cordova, Alaska. We are centered in 5.5 million acres of the Chugach National Forest, a breath taking fungal paradise! Click the link below to the Cordova Chamber of Commerce. See what Cordova has to offer!
We're Gonna Blitz!
We would like to extend an invitation to all you mycologists out there; amateurs, professionals and wannabes alike! We are doing a major mycoblitz during our 2008 Fungus Festival and we're going to need your help! What is a mycoblitz you might ask..? It is a foray to gather and identify every mushroom in a specific area. The gathering techniques will differ from hunting for the table. Specimens will need to be lifted gently from the mycelium intact. Different examples of the same specimen in various life cycle stages might be needed. Spore prints will need to be taken, habitats noted and perhaps photographed. From this we can hope to catalog all the species found. A big job, but you've got to start somewhere! So we would love to see all you shroomers out there, especially folks from other Alaskan Clubs and Mycological Societies. As you can see from the web pages that follow, it won't be all work and no play. Oh no, a great time is guaranteed, check us out, click on some of our web pages, we'll be waiting for you!
The Cordova Fungus Festival will be on August 28th, 29th, 30th & 31st in 2008. There will be workshops, forays, gourmet dining and experts from the world of mushrooms. Steve Trudell from the University of Washington will lead the mycoblitz! Dorothy Beebee, world famous expert on fiber dyeing with mushrooms will be here! We have Alaskan experts, Kate Mohat and Dominique Collet , and those wild and crazy Cordova Fungus Pluckers! Check it all out on the 2008 Schedule page. Be there or be square!
Come and visit the beautiful South Central Coastal Rainforest of Cordova, Alaska. We are centered in 5.5 million acres of the Chugach National Forest, a breath taking fungal paradise! Click the link below to the Cordova Chamber of Commerce. See what Cordova has to offer!
We're Gonna Blitz!
We would like to extend an invitation to all you mycologists out there; amateurs, professionals and wannabes alike! We are doing a major mycoblitz during our 2008 Fungus Festival and we're going to need your help! What is a mycoblitz you might ask..? It is a foray to gather and identify every mushroom in a specific area. The gathering techniques will differ from hunting for the table. Specimens will need to be lifted gently from the mycelium intact. Different examples of the same specimen in various life cycle stages might be needed. Spore prints will need to be taken, habitats noted and perhaps photographed. From this we can hope to catalog all the species found. A big job, but you've got to start somewhere! So we would love to see all you shroomers out there, especially folks from other Alaskan Clubs and Mycological Societies. As you can see from the web pages that follow, it won't be all work and no play. Oh no, a great time is guaranteed, check us out, click on some of our web pages, we'll be waiting for you!