CMS RMNP Mycoblitz Schedule
       
Date
Time
Activity
Location
       
Saturday, August 23, 2008    
       
  7:30 - 8:30 Onsite Registration Beaver Meadows Visitor Center
  8:30 - 9:30 Meeting with everyone Beaver Meadows Visitor Center
    Introduction & Briefing by RMNP & CMS  
  9:30 -10:00 Breakup into small collection groups  
  10:00 Depart for hunting locations  
  1:00 - 2:30 Return from hunting McLaren Hall
  1:00 - 5:00 Sorting & Identification of Mushrooms McLaren Hall
  3:00 - 3:30 Seminar: Photographing Mushrooms for Mushroom Observer
Speaker: Doug Smith
McLaren Hall
  4:00 - 4:30 Seminar: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms
of Colorado
Speaker: Rob Hallock
McLaren Hall
  4:30 - 5:00 Plant & lichen walk with Jennifer Frazer McLaren Hall
       
Sunday, August 24, 2008    
  7:30 - 8:30 Registration Beaver Meadows Visitor Center
  8:30 - 9:30 Meeting with everyone Beaver Meadows Visitor Center
    Introduction & Briefing by RMNP & CMS  
  9:30 -10:00 Breakup into small collection groups  
  10:00 Depart for hunting locations  
  1:00 - 2:30 Return from hunting McLaren Hall
  1:00 - 5:00 Sorting & Identification of Mushrooms McLaren Hall
  2:00 - 2:30 Seminar: Myxomycetes (Slime Molds)
Speaker: Mary Jane Howell
McLaren Hall
  2:30 - 3:00 Seminar: Sudden Oak Death -- Should we in Colorado be concerned?
Speaker: David Rust
McLaren Hall
  3:00-3:15 Report on Timber Creek Collecting
Speaker: Marc Donsky
McLaren Hall
  3:15 - 3:30 Closing remarks
Speakers: CMS & RMNP
McLaren Hall
  4:00 - 5:00 Package mushrooms for Denver Botanic McLaren Hall
    Gardens Herbarium of Fungi  
    Cleanup