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Spotted owls prefer old-growth and are threatened by logging.
They prefer to eat flying squirrels. Flying squirrels eat truffles and false truffles. The attempt to create such a forest and a study of the results is now in its third year and will go on for many more years. I have been taking advantage of volunteering with the truffle hunts in order to learn more about ecology in general and truffles in particular. Dr. Jim Trappe, world renowned expert on hypogeous fungi, found this Leucogaster on one of my plots and pointed out that this mushroom is rarely seen in the studies, but its spores are abundant in flying squirrel droppings, indicating that they love it and are much better at finding it than we are.