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natvik Lokness

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    Near Olympic Mountains
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    polypores, photography, interesting obscure mushrooms

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  1. You asked about hunters. In Washington State we wear orange - hunters are required to. The local foray group does not let you go in the woods without bright orange. Not long ago a hunter shot and killed a brush picker who was not wearing orange. They charged him but the jury found him innocent even though he admitted to the shooting. So wear bright colors! I almost always go out alone since that is my preference. Getting lost here is perhaps the biggest threat. Hypothermia if you don't make it out of the woods. The fog moves in and one gets disoriented fast. They are selling a device now that you set when you leave your car and it uses GPS to always point the direction your car is. Like a compass but with directions. How cool is that?
  2. Do different mushrooms grow at different rates? You bet! And yes, it depends on what you are looking for..........Even more importantly they might change a lot for other reasons besides rain; a pefect bolete one day is a production factory riddle with bugs the next. An Inky cap that one day is perfect can be an unidentifiable mass of black slim the next. Then there is those pesky slow growers such as hedgehogs that seem to take weeks to have any identifiable growth. Freezing at night can also make many mushrooms turn to a glutinous mass. So if you have freezing weather at night, go the day before. Here in the PNW, the chanterelles can be very eatable for weeks during late summer when they grow particularly slow when there is a lack of rain.........then those that come up with a rain will be good but can be a bit watery........then the freeze hits. Good luck. Great question!
  3. Still struggling for anyone willing to give advice. I decreased the size of the file and while they looked to be an appropriate size on the "Reply to this topic" page ........when I pushed "Post" I was given the following message; Not allowed to use that file extension on this community". I tried a couple of different file types and either received the quoted message or it did not accept the file at all. Is there a specific file type I should be using?
  4. Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question. If I can sneak some time today I'll give it a go. Thanks!
  5. Cool mushroom for sure! I wish I could post mine so you could compare. Is there some easy way of doing that? My first try was too big of a file and the forum deleated it - and rightly so. My example of this mushroom has just a bit more white crinkles on it I think. Southern Virginia and Washington State are a long ways apart.
  6. Is this an inside mushroom joke? Amanita muscaria var. guessowii? I have a picture of a very similiar mushroom as the one posted above that does have and the picture shows the bulbuos very well. Problem is I'm struggle figuring out how to post a picture of the proper size?
  7. Cauliflower, but it should be called Noodles. Or pile of noodles. They sure look more like noodles than cauliflower to me. ...........I made soup out of one I found a month or so ago and it was great. The noodles hold their shape and firmness even after being cooked a long time. As an aside; A wise mushroom expert told me that Sparassis is one mushroom you want to cut off rather thanpull it free. This can be a bit of s chore if it is a really big one to getinto the stalk, but if you do this it will likely come back next year. Same stump or log! .............I'm new here and wanted to try posting a picture - so excuse me if this turns ugly.
  8. Steve Trudell said the cost was $40 or $50 bucks from a Spanish company. It is not strait forward since there may be some prep work? But that didn't sound like he thought it was a big deal. I believe - but am not sure I remember what he said exactly - that it also depended on how much of the DNA you get read. IOW, the important parts cost less to get read than if you want more of the the in between stuff. That make sense? ............So my question then is; what do you do with the "read" when you get it? How do you compare it to what has already been done? Do you have to be an expert in reading the code for it to have any meaning? As a separate item, a tip of the hat to our local club president Chris Herrera who coauthored an article in the latest FUNGI magazine that just came yesterday.
  9. Thanks for the welcome! I spent last weekend under the tutelage of Steve Trudell as he led us through an ID clinic near Olympia. A cold but very enthusiastic group trying their best to keep up with the always changing names of the various species. Seems to me that the opportunity for classification business is open ended. Steve mentioned the cost of DNA and I was shocked to learn how low it has dropped. Anyhow, thanks again for the welcome.
  10. Hello Gig Harbor; I'm just down the road a bit at the southern edge of Olympic Peninsula. I also just joined the group yesterday. Oh my gosh there are a lot of mushrooms in the woods right now. natvik
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