Wild mushrooms are major products of our forests. Recent years have witnessed a tremendous growth in commercial harvest from public and private lands. Simultaneously, recreational picking of mushrooms has grown rapidly.
Mushrooms are also targets of concern over conservation of biotic diversity.
This year, the same people need to survey for rare fungi, issue permits for mushroom harvest, and administer sales of picking rights to commercial harvesters. Mushrooms and Managers is designed to provide the basic background forest and park managers need to cope with the burgeoning interest in these long-ignored organisms. The workshop will be held at facilities of the requesting organization. A maximum of 25 participants will insure opportunity for lots of interaction between students and instructors. Instructors Dr. James Trappe, Professor, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Science and Botany-Plant Pathology, internationally recognized authority on biology and taxonomy of wild fungui.