Patrick Leacock, mycologist from the Field Museum of Natural History will be speaking at the meeting on March 2nd.

Paul Stamets will be speaking on Thursday May 14th at Lake Katherine Nature Center prior to his Green Festival speaking engagement.

Our next meeting is on 2 March 09 at the North Park Village Nature Center, at 7:00 pm.

Visit us again soon to look for an announcement about our annual banquet to take place in late January or early February 2009.

This site will feature:

• the Top Ten questions people ask us about fungi
• our club’s calendar of events, showing our monthly meetings, club dinners, and group forays (in the member section)
• a key to the mushrooms of the Chicago area
• our database of historical biographies of mycologists
• a glossary of mycological terms