February Monthly Meeting: Danny Miller (by )
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Fungal Philosophies - Mythbusters, or Fungal Fables Debunked
Mythbusters, or Fungal Fables Debunked" - an entertaining look of common mushroom myths and the truth behind them
Please join us for our Montly Meeting at the Harvey West Scout House. Doors open at 7, with refreshments and informal mushroom ID from 7:00 - 7:30. A discussion of upcoming events will precede our speaker, Danny Miller, our guest speaker from the Pacific Northwest. At the general meeting Danny will talk to us about "Fungal Philosophies - Mythbuster, or Fungal Fables Debunked" - an entertaining look at common mushroom myths and the truth about them.
Danny first got interested in Mushrooms in 2007 after seeing strange colourful creatures in the forest all the time while hiking and skiing off trail, and finally decided he had to find out what they were. The more he learned, the more interesting they seemed, and it just hasn't stopped.
Danny is on the Board of Trustees for the Puget Sound Mycological Society (PSMS) as well as their Education Chair, helping to design and teach the curriculum for the club's mycology classes. He is also the club Librarian, and an ID Committee member and emergency poisoning point person for King County Washington Poison Control. Danny also belongs to the PNW Key Council, a group of amateur and professional mycologists and is a co-author of MatchMaker, the free PNW mushroom ID program for the PC and MAC. He has a big interest in taxonomy and figuring out where all of the mushrooms fit into the fungal tree of life.