The Gary Lincoff Memorial Foray
The full 2020 Foray experience has been postponed to 2021. Guest Mycologist Michael Kuo (mushroomexpert.com) has already committed to appearing next year. Leon Shernoff (Mushroom the Journal) will still present Fall Mushrooms (virtually) at our monthly WPMC meeting… Read More
About the Club
The Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club was created to promote the enjoyment, study, and exchange of information about wild mushrooms. Everyone who has an interest in wild mushrooms is welcome to become a member. Activities include regular meetings, projects… Read More
Bolete Filter
The Bolete Filter is a triage (A Synoptic Key) for North American Boletes developed by Scott Pavelle with lots of input from other club members and country wide experts and hosted by the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club. Tradition… Read More
Newsletter
Newsletter archive completed.
Last year I received two separate donations of printed copies of old club newsletters. I would like to thank John and Kim Plischke plus Caroline Plazek and her father, for their donations. This pile of newsletters then sat… Read More
Species list from Secret walk at Deer Lakes Park – Dorothy Fornof foray on 06/27/2020
This is the first “secret walk” that we held in order to comply with a limit of 25 people in the group and maintaining social distancing etc. It was also the first walk of the year! A June… Read More
Species list from Phipps Bioblitz on 06/03/2020
As part of the Phipps BioBlitz Fluff Berger and Richard Jacob recorded their finds from the area around the conservatory. In past years we have found more species in part because we have people walking with us that means… Read More
Walk reports from May 2ed.
As the club works around the social distancing and pandemic restrictions we have two very different kinds of walks from this weekend. The first event was a Facebook Live stream where you could accompany club identifier Cara Barkley… Read More