Begin to Identify Mushrooms with This Great Visual Guide for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington! Mushrooming is a popular and rewarding pastimeand its one that you can enjoy with the right information at hand. Mushrooms of the Northwest is the field guide to get you started. The region-specific book utilizes an innovative, user-friendly format that can help you identify mushrooms by their visual characteristics. Hundreds of full-color photographs are paired with easy-to-understand text, providing the details to give you confidence in the field. The information, written by foraging experts Teresa Marrone and Drew Parker, is accessible to beginners but useful for even experienced mushroom seekers. Learn about more than 400 species of common wild mushrooms found in the Northwest states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. The species (from Morel Mushrooms to Shelf Mushrooms) are organized by shape, then by color, so you can identify them by their visual characteristics. Plus, with the Top Edibles and Top Toxics sections, you'll begin to learn which are the edible wild mushrooms and which to avoid. Get this field guide, jam-packed with information, and start identifying the mushrooms you find.
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Product Details
Weight: 272g
Dimensions: 111 x 152mm
Publication Date: 25 Apr 2019
Publisher: Adventure Publications Incorporated
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781591937920
About Drew ParkerTeresa Marrone
Teresa Marrone is the lead author of three regional field identification guides for wild mushrooms (Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest Mushrooms of the Northeast and Mushrooms of the Northwest). She is also sole author of more than a dozen outdoors-themed books including the Wild Berries & Fruits Identification Guides series (currently available for four regions of the U.S.). She splits her time between her home in Minneapolis and her cabin in northern Minnesota abutting the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. With a background in the visual arts Drew Parker has always had a strong attraction to the natural sciences as well. He found his focus in fungi after arriving in the Northwest in 1973 and innocently wandering into the mountains with a new mushroom book in hand. He is a longtime member of the North American Mycological Association and the Pacific Northwest Key Council a group of amateur and professional mycologists that was formed to further the study of Northwest fungi. Over the years he has served as foray mycologist for the Spokane Mushroom Club and has worked for several years conducting surveys of macrofungi for the U.S. Forest Service. As a photographer Drew has supplied images for numerous mycological papers and books as well as for MatchMaker a digital mushroom identification program of which he is a coauthor. He currently resides with his wife Katie at their home in the wild woods near Metaline Falls Washington.