Daniel Winkler will be joining us!

Daniel is the author of “Fruits of the Forest – Field Guide to Pacific Northwest Edible Mushrooms”, a product of a life time of mushroom hunting, the last twenty-five in the Pacific Northwest of North America. His other field guides are “Edible Mushrooms of the PNW” and “Edible Mushrooms of California” (both Harbour Publishing, 2011 and 2012), Amazon Mushrooms (2014, co-authored and a revised Spanish version, “Macrohongos de la Region Amazonica”, 2023), “Field guide to Medicinal Mushrooms of North America with Robert Rogers (2018)”, and MycoCards “Boletes of Western North America” co-authored with Gary Gilbert (2021).
Daniel grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and has been foraging for over 25 years in the PNW and beyond, sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator and guide and as past PSMS vice-president. In his presentations he is combining his stunning photography with an often funny blend of entertaining stories and scientific information; he likes to refer to as “edutainment”. Having been in love with mushrooms since early childhood Daniel managed to bend his career as an ecologist and geographer focused on High Asia towards researching  rural Tibet’s enormous fungal economy. His Cordyceps research has been featured in The Economist, National Geographic, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, BBC World Service etc. In the last decade Daniel started exploring neotropical fungi. With his travel agency MushRoaming Daniel is organizing mushroom focused eco-adventures to Bhutan, Tibet, the Amazon, Colombia, the Austrian Alps and the Pacific Northwest since 2007  [www.mushroaming.com].

Meetings are free and open to the public.