We are a club made up of a diverse group of people. We have members who work in the sciences, members who work in the arts and members who do everything in between. Some of our members wear a white shirt to work and some wear blue – actually, a lot of us wear mostly earth tones. Personality testing would probably put many of us on the introverted side of the scale but we have extroverts too, you’ll get to know them right away. A glance at the parking lot during one of our summer meetings will likely reveal at least one kayak or canoe strapped to a roof rack.

A few of us tend to get sidetracked at meetings and tell hunting or fishing stories. Most of us get great satisfaction from our ability to go into the woodlands and find… food. Some of our members are extremely knowledgeable about mushrooms and can pull their scientific names and identifying features from memory. Others of us are still trying to figure out how to use our guidebooks. We often disagree about politics and religion and many other things but we are united in our love of the outdoors, our curiosity about the natural world, and our particular fascination with most things fungal.