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SOUTHERN IDAHO MYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION March - April 2010 P.O. Box 843 Boise ID 83701 Vol. 32, #2 Editor Genille Steiner

Next SIMA Meeting: April 12, 2010, Idaho Fish & Game Building. 7:30 PM Program: Desert Mushrooms By Genille Steiner Forays Scheduled Spring Foray, June 3, 4, 5, 2010, Quaker Hill, Osprey Lodge, McCall, ID. Registration forms available in April. Fall Foray, Sept. 16, 17, 18, 19, 2010, Quaker Hill, Lakeside Lodge, McCall ID. What is Happening On SIMA’s Blog? Check Kevin Sublett’s unofficial SIMA Blog! Open to SIMA mushroomers and is password protected. Please put your name or at least your initials with your entry. A short entry of what you found and a general area where you found it is what we are looking for. The instructions are as follows: 1. Enter http://idahomushrooms.blogspot.com into your internet browser. 2. On the login page, type Idahomushrooms@gmail.com in the username (e-mail) box. 3. Type sima2010 into the password box. The column on the right of the page shows all the postings so far. Click on any you wish to view, or follow instructions to make your own postings. If you experience problems accessing this blog, e-mail Kevin at kevinsub@yahoo.com . Thank you Kevin! Remember, don’t give out the password. Fruiting in the Desert Sagebrush Montagnea arenarius is considered by some to be a gastroid Coprinus because of the blackish spores and thin spore-bearing plates. The plates look like dry gills and do not deliquesce. Montagnea has a volva buried deep in the sand is easily missed. It grows in the arid sandy soil of sand dunes and sagebrush desert. They are fairly common in the arid and semi-arid areas of western North America. Photos by Genille Steiner Source used for information: Mushrooms Demystified by David Aurora

Another desert/dry land fungus is the “stalked puffball” Tulostoma simulans is found fruiting in the sandy soils of arid areas such as sand dunes. The fruiting body forms underground and is pushed above ground by a woody stalk. There is no volva at the base of the stalk. The sand falls off the white spore case leaving a pore at the top for the rusty- brown spores to poof out. Source: Mushrooms Demystified by David Aurora Photo by Genille Steiner Donation To SIMA: John Olsen Traveling Library Trudy Anderson, John’s daughter contacted SIMA in early Feb. to donate many of John’s books and all of his copies of Mushroom The Journal. I have placed John’s books in a large covered plastic container that will be brought to forays for members to use as more source material. I also added other donated books from former members. The books will be identified by a strip of red book tape on the spine with SIMA and a number printed on the tape for quick inventory.

Morel Hunt Sunday, May 16. Manns Creek Meet in the parking lot of the closed Manns Creek Store at 10 AM Sunday morning. The store is about 10 miles north of Weiser on Hwy 95. We will be going into controlled burns. This is the same weekend we hunted in Cambridge 2 years ago. Map being e-mailed again. Questions, call Genny 208-345-2515 NAMA Fall Foray – August 12 – 15, 2010 This year NAMA’s fall foray is in Colorado near Granby and Winter Park. Sponsored by the Colorado Mycological Society. This will be NAMA’s 50th Annual Foray. It is being held at YMCA of the Rockies Mountain Snow Ranch. It is 14 miles from Winter park and seven miles from Granby. You need to have current NAMA membership to attend. Registration forms are available at: http://cmsweb.org/nama2010registration.htm Several SIMA members are planning to attend. Check the January/February issue of The Mycophile for information and rates. Currently Kathy Richmond and Hope Miller are attending and traveling together. Steiners are planning on attending. Rates go up after June 15.

SIMA'S SPRING FORAY

Quaker Hill Osprey Lodge, McCall ID Upper Level

June 2, 3, 4, 2010 Thursday June 2 Friday June 3 Saturday June 4 Early Foray & ID Workshop 8 AM Breakfast 8 AM Breakfast 2:00-4 PM 9 AM-3PM Forays Specimen Table Critique Regular Foray Registration 5:30 Supper Summer Foray plans 2 PM 7:00 Program \ Check -Out before: 5:30 Supper 11 AM 7:30 Program Early Registration and Foray starts 2 PM Friday Regular Foray Thursday 2 PM to 11:00 Saturday includes 2 nights l odging, 5 meals, programs, display.

Last day to Pre-register for food and lodging, Sund ay, May 23, 2010. Pre-registration also required for Saturday Only + Meals.

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Name______________________________________________ Address____________________________________Phone________________________ City_________________________ State ____Zip________ E-Mail ________________________ Registration Fees: Friday 2 PM to noon Sunday _____Full Foray $110.00 _____Current College Student, with ID _____Early Foray only $20.00 $25.00 No meals or lodging. _____Saturday Only, No meals $30.00 _____Rates for children available _____Saturday Only, + Supper + Program $40.00 on request. _____Saturday Dinner + Program $20.00 _____Friday Foray – Sat all day, prg., no dinner, $60.00 (includes Friday lodging, 3 meals) _____Friday – Sat. food + program, no lodging $60.00 Number attending__________ Amount enclosed____________ Need lodging____(bring your own bedding, towel, etc. ) RV's same cost as lodging, hook ups limited plenty space self-contained. _____Hook ups

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Make check payable to SIMA Send check and Registration Form to: Genille Steiner 1903 N 9th St Boise, ID 83702 Phone 208-345-2515 gsteiner@sitestar.net