McHenry County Conservation District, Environmental Defenders of McHenry County, Lou Marchi Total Recycling Institute at MCC, and MCC present, Fungi Discovered: What We Know & How Important They Are, Thursday, January. 26, from 7–8:30 p.m. at McHenry County College, Conference Center, 8900 US Hwy 14, Crystal Lake.
Dr. Patrick Leacock, Adjunct Curator in Mycology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, will present the importance of fungi and their diversity in McHenry County and the greater Chicago Region.
The second half of the presentation will feature a 30-minute video of the 2011 Bioneers Conference presentation by Paul Stamets, whose talk will focus on key mushroom species that can lead to greater sustainability and better health.
For 14 years Leacock has been documenting the macro-fungi of the Chicago Region, visiting many preserves of woodland, savanna, and prairie. This past year, Leacock explored 10 natural areas in McHenry County, documenting about 200 species of fungi. Long-term plot studies have recorded species diversity and abundance in relation to restoration and the impacts of nitrogen pollution in oak woodlands. Patrick obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is scientific advisor for the Illinois Mycological Association.
Paul Stamets has written six seminal mushroom-related books, including “Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms”, “The Mushroom Cultivator”, “Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World”, “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World”, and many articles and scholarly papers.
Stamets has his own medicinal and gourmet mushroom business, and has received numerous environmental awards from Bioneers, National Geographic, Adventure’s Magazine’s Green-O-vator and the Argosy Foundation’s E-chievement awards.
For more information contact Laurie Ryan lryan@mccdistrict.org; 815-678-4532 or Pat Dieckhoff pdieckhoff@mchenry.edu or 815-479-7817
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