Registration is now live for the 19th Annual Fungus Foray and Wild Mushroom Exposition, which will take place on December 10-11 at the Shady Creek Outdoor School and Event Center.
Pre-registration helps us streamline the event entry process and organize attendees into small groups for the Saturday foray.
Volunteers are needed to help pull off this amazing community event. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Daniel Nicholson at danmadrone@gmail.com.
Saturday December 10, 9 am to 4:30 pm
Our traditional Saturday morning wild mushroom hunt and identification will wrap up with an afternoon of displayed discoveries and identification workshops. Please arrive by 9am to register and sign-up for a foray group.
Bring a lunch and be prepared to walk in the damp woods. Also useful: collection basket, waxed paper bags, knife, and hand lens. We will drive to sites 15 to 30 minutes away. Please carpool and be open to sharing a ride with other attendants.
Following the foray, there will be identification workshops, as well as wild mushroom soup and other wild-crafted food for sale.
Sunday December 11, 11 am to 4 pm
Sunday we host the 6th annual Wild Mushroom Exposition. The Exposition will be filled with presentations, interactive displays, and workshops based on our seasonal Sierra mushrooms. Stop by any time between 11 am and 4pm. There will be wild-crafted food concessions, mushroom merchandise available for sale, break away mini hikes on campus (weather dependent), and lectures and workshops that celebrate fungi.
Presentations will include Mike Wood from the Mycological Society of San Francisco, who will present on his new book, California Mushrooms: A Comprehensive Identification Guide. Mycologist Alan Rockefeller will present his discoveries from temperate Mexican highlands. And Brian Perry from East Bay University will talk on the beautiful Mycena of California.
Please be aware there are NO dogs and No smoking at the Shady Creek Center.
Saturday – $20 general; $15 for YWI members; children and full-time students free
Sunday – $10 general; $8 for YWI members; children and full-time students free
Volunteer positions are available and pre-sale tickets will be available soon.
Information: YubaWatershedInstitute.org or email danmadrone@gmail.com, or call 530-575-6192
Our traditional Saturday morning wild mushroom hunt and identification will wrap up with an afternoon of displayed discoveries and identification workshops. Please arrive by 9am to register and sign-up for a foray group.
Bring a lunch and be prepared to walk in the damp woods. Also useful: collection basket, waxed paper bags, knife, and hand lens. We will drive to sites 15 to 30 minutes away, and some may hunt on site. Please carpool and be open to sharing a ride with other attendants.
Following the foray, wild mushroom soup and other wild-crafted food will be for sale and we will present the following speakers.
More details and driving instructions available at our events calendar.
Sunday we host the 5th annual Wild Mushroom Exposition. The Exposition is filled with presentations, interactive displays, and workshops based on our seasonal Sierra mushrooms. Stop by any time between 11 am and 4pm. There will be wild-crafted food concessions, mushroom merchandise available for sale, and the following speakers will present.
More details and driving instructions available at our events calendar.
Saturday – $20 general; $15 for YWI members; children and full-time students free
Sunday – $10 general; $8 for YWI members; children and full-time students free
Email danmadrone@gmail.com or call 530-575-6192
More details and driving instructions available at our events calendar.
Come help maintain the Bald Mountain Fuel Break that was originally built in 1995.
Meet at the North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center at 9am to caravan and carpool to the site.
The Yuba Watershed Institute’s Save the Big Trees Work Day will take place on November 7, 2015 in and adjacent to a McNab Cypress forest, an area of unique geology, botany, and natural history. We will be reducing fuels and protecting the unique forest of the Bald Mountain Parcel of the San Juan Ridge ‘Inimim Forest. Several unique plant species are found here, including the Brewer’s oak, birchleaf mountain mahogany, silk tassel, creeping sage, and McNab cypress. The rare butterfly, Muir’s Hairstreak, feeds on McNab cypress in the Sierra Nevada. The coast horned lizard and California thrasher have also been observed on Bald Mountain.
Bring water, snacks, work gloves, loppers, a rake, and earplugs.
We will be removing and stacking manzanita.
A chipper will be present to process the materials.
Sponsored by the Yuba Watershed Institute and the Bureau of Land Management.
Lunch will be provided by the Ananda Center for Alternative Living around 1:30 pm.
