Monthly meeting

John Plischke III is a founding member of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, which has become one of the largest mushroom clubs in the US. He can be reached at [email protected] He is Walk and Foray Chairman of the WPMC and a member of the Speaker’s Bureau. John has been awarded the club’s Distinguished Service Award. John is an identifying mushroom expert for the Western PA Mushroom Club (WPMC), He is a life member of NAMA and a trustee to both NAMA and NEMF. NAMA has awarded John the prestigious Harry and Elsie Knighton Award. John is Chairman of the NAMA Photography Committee. He has also presented programs to many NAMA affiliated mushroom clubs.
He is the editor of two WPMC wild mushroom cookbooks. John is the author of Morel Mushrooms and Their Poisonous Look A Likes and Good Mushroom, Bad Mushroom. John has won over 85 national and regional awards for his mushroom photography.