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DESCRIPTION:With the first good rains of the year we have our first good bloom of 
 fungal fruiting bodies (mushrooms)  popping up everywhere. Our hour long 
 walk will encompass the grassy areas around the boathouse and the Lake 
 Merritt gardens. The focus will be on learning to identify the larger 
 mushroom species of the area and learning to read the landscape for where 
 these various hetertrophs hide out and about their many roles in the local 
 ecology. We are very lucky in that Lake Merritt has a wide variety of 
 mushrooms species for such a small location.\n\nPlease bring guide books if 
 you have them. A one page guide to the commonly found mushrooms will be 
 provided. We will meet rain or shine. Tools that you may want to bring 
 include a small pocket knife, a paintbrush, and a jacket.  This walk will 
 not include tasting- all mushrooms will be passed around and placed back 
 where they came from.\n\nYour guide will be Damon Tighe, an amateur 
 mycologist or five years and former research scientist at the Joint Genome 
 Institute, where many fungal genomes have been sequenced for biofuel 
 applications.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/04/18727214.php
SUMMARY:Mushrooms of Lake Merritt
LOCATION:Outside the Rotary Nature Center at Lake Merritt\n600 Bellevue Ave, Oakland 
 CA 95610
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/12/04/18727214.php
DTSTART:20121215T200000Z
DTEND:20121215T210000Z
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