Message from the President

Hello all SCMS members:
It has been a busy 2 months of camping and visiting friends back in Portland, Oregon for me as well as trying to get my bearings as SCMS President. I hope you have all had some fun and maybe found a mushroom or two during our time off from the meetings. Our next meeting will be Sept. 12, 2018 from 7:30 to 9:30 with Danny Miller giving us his presentation on “Mushroom Prejudice” An entertaining take on human bias in mush-rooming. 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 the Education Chair for the Puget Sound Mycological Society, helping to design and teach the curriculum for the club’s mycology classes. He is also the club Librarian, and ID Committee co-ordinator 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 with Ian Gibson, 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. Memberships end on Aug. 31, 2018 so don’t forget to renew your membership. If anyone is interested in volunteering with any of the committees please bring it to my attention. If anyone has any foray or camping ideas or any ideas at all please pass them on at the September meeting. Your membership, attendance and involvement in your society is important to it’s success, I hope to see you all at the next meeting. Let’s get busy, Get involved and have some fun.
Thank You
Steven Faulkner
SCMS President.