The
Colorado Mycological Society has a new meeting location for 2009! At
the end of the 2008 season the Denver Botanic Gardens notified
CMS, and other plant societies, that we would not be able to meet
there in 2009 because of the extensive construction work being
carried out at the Gardens. CMS therefore appointed a committee
to come up with a new meeting location.
In 2009 the Colorado Mycological Society will be meeting in the
Asbury Event Center at 3011 Vallejo
Street in historic North Denver (map).
The Asbury Event Center is in the old Asbury Methodist Church
(built in 1890) complex which is today privately owned and no longer
functioning as a church.
We are quite excited about the new meeting location. The main meeting
room is large and will comfortably accommodate our members. There
are also adjoining rooms where we can hold Board meetings and conduct
classes. And a very big plus for us: CMS will have use of a kitchen
adjoining the main meeting room. There is also off street parking
in a lot across the street from the Center.
Directions: To reach the Asbury Event Center from east of I-25 take
Speer Blvd. north. After crossing I-25 turn right on Zuni Street.
Proceed north to 30th Street. Turn right and go two blocks to Vallejo
Street. Asbury Event center is on the northwest corner of 30th and
Vallejo.
From I-25 take the Speer Blvd (north) exit and proceed to Zuni Street.
Turn right on Zuni Street. Proceed north to 30th Street. Turn right
and go two blocks to Vallejo Street. Asbury Event center is on the
northwest corner of 30th and Vallejo.
Entrance: There are several entrances into the
facilities. The door to our meeting room is at the northeast corner
of the building.
We look forward to seeing you in our new location of the Colorado
Mycological Society. |
dwelling
squirrels, small rodents, deer and elk, and even insects.
Comprised of many genera and species, truffle communities perform
interconnecting, and in some cases interdependent roles in
food webs of Rocky mountain conifer forests, wherein the
fungi develop symbiotic root associations with trees thus providing
nutrients to the host and receiving in return photosynthates
(sugars) to fuel their growth. Forest adapted animals, particularly
tree squirrels, consume the truffle fruiting bodies as major
parts of their diets and disperse the fungal spores throughout
the forest. Healthy squirrel
populations provide an essential prey base for forest carnivores,
especially northern goshawks and northern spotted owls, and
these birds are thus intimately connected to the fungi through
both the prey base and the trees (supported by the mycorrhizae)
for nesting habitat. So tightly linked are these
food web components in Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine forests
that forest managers have selected tassel-eared squirrels,
Sciurus aberti, to be the official indicator of forest health
and ecosystem sustainability. The steps leading to the
discovery of this remarkable relationship and its current application
in forest management policy and guidelines will be presented.
Mushroom
Magick — You
might want to check out Arik Roper's book Mushroom
Magick: a Visionary Field Guide. In the book Roper explores psychoactive
fungi as used worldwide in shamanic tradition. Read the brief review
that appeared in the Denver Post's "Grow and Garden" section
on Friday, May 29, 2009, about Roper's book. It sounds interesting. 
