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Citizen Science: Amateur Ain’t a Dirty Word (by )
on the right: A very far eastern Dendrocollybia… Read on for details.
*With a title containing the terms “Amateur” and “hard and messy”, this post better get some traffic…*
So! There’s been a lot of trollish, flamey, someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet-style discussions over at Mushroom Observer recently, and despite the entertainment value, I thought a blog post might help quell the animosity and clear up some of the common outstanding questions and misconceptions under discussion.
The discussions revolve around Citizen Science and the associated questions: How does it work? Is it really science? Am I a citizen scientist? If so, is there a cure?
Cam-Cam (by )
A short video clip from Taylor F. Lockwood - Cam-Cam (39 seconds:-) with some of his new "Brazilian" music. It will be included in the Taylor's latest video project Spirits of the Forest.
Alan Rockefeller - Mushrooms of Mexico, Feb 19, 2014 (by )
This month Alan Rockefeller was our speaker Presenting the Mushrooms of Mexico 2013, showing the best of 50 gigs of photos taken during this summer's travels. There will be photos of edible, poisonous and hallucinogenic mushrooms, mushroom hunters and fungus fairs from southern Mexico. If you've followed Alan's accounts on the FFSC Google group...
Mushrooms of Australia and New Zealand (by Taylor Lockwood)
National Geographic Magazine Debut (by Taylor F. Lockwood)
Dear friends,
In the past twenty-five years or so I have been sending major publications some of my best images in hopes of getting them to see mushrooms as nature's art instead of dried up moldy pieces of science. That's o.k. too but I'm going for nature's beauty here.
It has been very frustrating and I've written letters detailing my thoughts about their aesthetic fugophobia -- but I didn't send them.
Mushrooms of Alaska (by )
To a California mushroomer, Alaska's Kenai Peninsula is a fantasy kingdom featuring abundant habitat and moisture, few No Trespassing signs and little competition. Small wonder many enjoy staying at Bill White's Sports Lodge in Sterling. We are fortunate that Bill organizes a foray for us each summer...
40th Fungus Fair - Time lapse of the Island setup (by )
Time lapse video (7 hours condensed into 2 minutes) of the Island setup for the 2014 Fungus Fair.
Wow, that team works fast!
A short history of the Fungus Fair (by )
A short history of the Fungus Fair and the FFSC told by our Prime Minister Philip Carpenter.
Come and celebrate it with us at Louden Nelson Center in Santa Cruz this coming weekend:
January 10th 3-7
Sat 11th 10-5
Sun 12th 10-5
Sat 11th 10-5
Sun 12th 10-5
FFSC on KKUP Community Radio (by )
KKUP Community Radio (91.5 FM) will feature of the FFSC on “all things mushroom” this Thursday, Jan. 2nd from 11AM to 1PM (see: http://www.kkup.org/calendar.htm)...