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Cascade Mycological Society

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The Cascade Mycological Society is dedicated to education, research, conservation, safety, and fun with fungi in the Pacific Northwestern mushroom belt. Eugene, OR

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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.beachconnection.net/news/yachats...
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Yachats Mushroom Fest Unlocks the Fun with Oregon Coast Fungi
Ocotober 16 - 18, three days of talks, walks, workshops
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The matsutake season opened in California on September 16 for the Mount Shasta and McCloud Ranger Districts and runs through November 30. A commercial permit is required to harvest matsutake on all National Forest land. www.actionnewsnow.com/news/matsuta...
actionnewsnow.com
Matsutake season opens: what mushroom hunters need to know before heading into the forest
SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. — Mushroom hunting season is underway in the Northern California, including the 2026 matsutake harvest season in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Definitely mushroom shaped heels. wwd.com/footwear-new...
High heel shoe where the heel looks like a mushroom
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great day for a CMS foray!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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2026 Eugene Bright Parade - Cascade Mycological Society entry
YouTube video by Cascade Myco
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oct 8, 2026, 6pm to 8pm - Intro to Wild Mushroom Identification (River Road Rec Center) - Refer to River Road Rec Guide linked here. www.rrpark.org/files/cbee30...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Read about what CMS accomplished last season: 🍄 Speaker presentations 🍄 Member field trips 🍄 Mount Pisgah Arboretum mushroom festival 🍄 CMS community events 🍄 Grants and scholarships awarded 🍄 Macrofungi of Lane County, Oregon with Dr. Bitty Roy of UO cascademyco.org/2026/09/2025...
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2025-2026 Year in Review
CMS MeetingsMPA Mushroom Festival HighlightsCMS Members' Only Field TripsFungi Education in the CommunityGrants and ScholarshipsMacrofungi of Lane County, OR (MLCO)CMS Special Events/ActivitiesCMS Boa...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#EugeneBrightParade
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Geo's lobster mushroom costume was the tops!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I appreciated your inspiration!
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oregon #fungi folks, the Yachats Mushroom Festival keynote dinner on Sat 17 Oct features a #truffle talk given by my sister Heather Dawson. Her truffle dogs are likely to share the stage with her. Get tickets while you can! #OregonCoast #mycology @visityachats.bsky.social @cascademyco.bsky.social
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Keynote Dinner 2026 | Heather Dawson - Yachats Mushroom Festival
Dinner: 5:00–6:30 PM $45 Keynote: 7:00 PM ($15 without dinner) Kick off the Yachats Mushroom Festival Friday evening with a special Keynote Dinner, featuring a locally inspired, mushroom-focused menu ...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Eugene Bright Parade 2026!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Glad to see a dream coming true this year❤️🍄
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Come cheer us on along the route if you're not in the parade! We are #92.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A team of 16 CMS members have been working on our mushroom costumes and the tree we will be connected to with “mycelium lights.” Look for sparkling purple Cortinarius, an earth star, chicken of the woods, lobster mushroom, morels, fly amanita, Hericium, a green earth tongue, ghost pipe, and more!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As soon as we left the theater after last April’s screening of Follow the Rain, we knew we had to arrange a fall showing for people to experience the awe and wonder of this film on a big screen. Save the Date: November 21st 6:30PM or November 22nd at 1:30PM. 📽️Trailer: youtu.be/f9N9WeFU3vA?...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More details! thatoregonlife.com/2026/09/free...
thatoregonlife.com
Eugene’s Free BRiGHT Parade Will Fill Downtown With Glowing Art This S
A book cart might seem like an unlikely starting point for a Saturday night out, but Eugene has plans for that. The Friends of Eugene Public Library are preparing illuminated books and rolling carts
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Come out to see us in the annual Eugene Bright Parade from 7:30 to 8:30. It starts and ends at 8th and Pearl.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oct 16-18, 2026 - Yachats Mushroom Festival - The 3-day event includes a dinner, a mushroom display, mushroom-themed dishes in local restaurants, mushroom walks, craft vendors, and more! #mushroomfestival www.yachatsmushroomfestival.org?mc_cid=33976...
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Yachats Mushroom Festival 2026 - Yachats Mushroom Festival
Yachats Mushroom Festival 2026 October 16-18, 2026  Showtime!Keynote EveningHeather Dawson: “Seeking Buried Fungal Treasure: Truffles and the Dogs Who Find Them” TalksExpand your knowledge of the worl...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oct 25, 2026 - Mount Pisgah Arboretum Mushroom Festival: Always the last Sunday in October! Advance tickets are required for entry and will go on sale on the MPA website on September 25th (cost $16). cascademyco.org/mushroom-fes...
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any recommendations for papers comparing how good different databases are at assigning taxonomic names to DNA sequences? I'd like to see example analyses for how to compare databases, so I don't care which organism group the database is targeting. 🧪 #ecology #taxonomy #dna
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sept 25, 2026, 7pm to 9pm Intro to Wild Mushroom Identification (Hilyard Community Center) Learn how to safely identify and consume wild mushrooms. Cost: $13 - $16.75 Registration required. rec.eugene-or.gov/OR/city-of-e...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Kick off mushroom season with us Wednesday night! Learn about fungi, bring mushrooms to be ID'd, and check them out under our microscope with expert identifiers on hand. 🍄 cascademyco.org/2026/09/cms-...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My favorite hat, illuminated mushrooms made by Dave using a hot glue gun and fairy lights.
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Uehling lab @uehlinglab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
We’re excited to share a new paper from the lab led by Dr. Hayden Johnson focused on rapid and accurate fungal identification at scale!!
biorxiv.org
Whole genome similarity provides a rapid, robust framework for classification of fungal taxa from the genus rank to intraspecies variants
Rapid and accurate microbial identification is critical for interpreting biological data in basic research and when making applied decisions on how to effectively treat patients and control human, ani...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The parade crew is meeting today to put lights on our costumes for the Bright Parade. Our entry was officially accepted yesterday!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Virtual option available. Registration is required.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Plant Ecology Tour: Edibles & Medicinals Saturday, September 5th 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM at Mount Pisgah Arboretum Join forager and herbalist Logan Keister to learn about seasonally available edibles and medicinals. Pre-registration is required. mountpisgaharboretum.org/learn/worksh...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
USDA's first update to U.S. mushroom grading standards since 1966 🍄‍🟫 Open veils no longer considered a defect Allows mixed mushroom packaging Adds Portabella grade Updates terminology Applies only to Agaricus bisporus (white/crimini/portabella) producebusiness.com/news/usda-fi...
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USDA Finalizes First Update to U.S. Mushroom Grade Standards in Nearly 60 Years
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has published a final notice in the Federal Register revising the U.S. Standards for Grades of Mushrooms.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Local photographer and CMS board member Bob Blanchard displays the cream-of-the-crop photos from 25+ years of photography. Opening night: September 4, 2026 – the same night as the First Friday Art Walk, from 7 to 9 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. eugeneweekly.com/calendar/#/d...
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"A $3.3 million, five-year federal grant awarded earlier this year will enable OHSU researchers to specifically examine psilocybin’s effect on people seeking state psilocybin services to reduce use of illicit substances."
news.ohsu.edu
Study finds sustained benefit for people using Oregon psilocybin services
OHSU-led research is the largest study of psychedelics outside clinical trials.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Rather than logs sitting on the forest floor for 15 years the mushrooms reduce the fuel level,” Bell said. “It is incredible.” gazette.com/2026/08/07/m...
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Mushrooms take role in fire mitigation
With thousands of acres burning across the United States and Canada, the town of Green Mountain Falls is mitigating with mushrooms.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🍄📽️🎬🎦🍄Film submissions for this year’s Fungi Film Fest are due TOMORROW, August 31 by 11:59 PM PST. #FungiFilmFestival #Mushrooms #FungiFriends #Fungi #MushroomFilmFestival mailchi.mp/mycoculturer...
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Films Due TOMORROW!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Beautiful story map highlights the importance of roadless national forest land. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f1fd...
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Conserving Forests Without Roads
How roadless conservation protects wildlife, drinking water, and clean air on the Colorado Plateau.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan: prominent botanist & mycologist and a pivotal military administrator who structured women's branches of the British armed forces across both World Wars. + Co-founder, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1917 + Commandant, Women's Royal Air Force Died #OTD in 1967. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white historical photograph of Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan (1879–1967), the pioneering British mycologist and decorated military administrator who structured women's auxiliary branches during both World Wars. Seated at a desk, she is shown from the torso up, angled slightly to the left while looking down with a warm, genuine smile. She holds a vintage black rotary telephone receiver to her right ear, with the main telephone base resting on the desk in the lower left foreground amidst scattered paperwork and documents. She wears a crisp British military service uniform jacket featuring shoulder straps with rank insignia, a collared shirt, a tie, and a row of military ribbon bars pinned above her left breast pocket. The background is a darkly lit, minimalist office interior, emphasizing her active leadership role. The composition balances the industrial details of early-to-mid 20th-century communications with a bright, dignified mood, capturing a historic moment of a female trailblazer commanding wartime operations.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Commercial use permits are $200 and are required for any individual gathering more than six matsutake mushrooms per day or for anyone gathering to sell. www.fs.usda.gov/r06/siuslaw/...
fs.usda.gov
Siuslaw National Forest : Press Release - Matsutake mushroom permits available in September
(Reedsport, OR, Aug.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"We need to understand how much change these relationships can absorb before that resilience begins to break down.” www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
colorado.edu
Plants and their fungal partners remain in sync despite changing climate
A CU Boulder study finds that the symbiotic relationship between alpine plants and underground fungi stays robust to earlier snowmelt driven by warming
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British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk · 17/08/2026
To be able to protect endangered fungi, we first need to know where they are. A new study in #FungalEcology clarifies the current and future distribution of the critically endangered polypore Wrightoporia araucariae in Brazil. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Fungi #Conservation
Photos showing macroscopic and microscopic features of Wrightoporia araucariae fungus. From a paper by Westphalen et al. in Fungal Ecology, August 2026.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The texture is similar to chicken breast, but not the taste IMHO
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"FLS said the fungus was among the "first colonisers" of burned ground and played a role in breaking down carbon and preventing soil erosion." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Bright orange 'fire fungus' emerges in wake of Cairngorms wildfire
Forestry and Land Scotland says the fungus is among the first signs of life in areas of burned woodland, following a major wildfire last month.
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Fungal chitin particles reinforce a flexible, dog-bone-shaped hydrogel much like rebar strengthens concrete." phys.org/news/2026-08...
phys.org
Fungal chitin offers new route to tougher hydrogels for medical devices and soft robots
Researchers at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, have made an advance by using a natural substance from fungi calle...
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Suggestions on where I could publish a short note on finding a fungal species where it definitely wasn't expected? Links to invasion biology + horticulture. PNW based, if that matters. Not sure I'll write this up, but it feels like the find should be recorded in the literature. #mycology #fungi
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Purdue researchers invent mycoponics to cultivate fungi for Earth, the moon and beyond"
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Mushrooms in space: Purdue researchers invent mycoponics to cultivate fungi for Earth, the moon and beyond
Porterfield founded MycoGravity — the Purdue Innovates Office of Technology Commercialization is in discussion with him about a licensing agreement — and published a paper that became Biotechnology…
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Inspired by the gorgeous work at A River of Light (ariveroflight.org) and considering a mushroom lantern parade entry. Does anyone have a pattern, template, or build plan for mushroom lanterns (willow/wicker and tissue paper, or similar)? #BRiGHTParade #Eugene ariveroflight.org
ariveroflight.org
Homepage - A River of Light: the magic of lantern parade
Welcome to A River of Light A celebration of art, light, community, and place. Through our brief history and across every continent, we have made lanterns and lit luminaries to banish the shadows, cel...
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FungiJoJofromCanada @fungijojo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The most poisonous mushroom around! 😍 Lovely
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Putting the fun in fungi
Four illustrations depicting anthropomorphic mushrooms in a forest, with glasses, purses, umbrellas and walking sticks. Art by Heinz Geilfus (1890-1956)
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New York Mycological Society @newyorkmyc.org · 06/08/2026
This achievement is a wonderful reminder that citizen scientists continue to make meaningful contributions to mycology. Congratulations, Sigrid, and thank you for your dedication to fungal science! 👏🍄 #Mycology #Mushrooms #CitizenScience #Inocybe #Mycologia
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