Susie Holmes is a founding member of the Cascade Mycological Society and biology faculty member at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon where she teaches mushroom biology and plant science courses.

I first became interested in mushrooms in the mid-80’s.  Around 1989, I was fortunate enough to take the Mushroom Biology class from Freeman Rowe at Lane Community College.  Starting in …

Dr. Matt Trappe is the lead author of the Field Guide to North American Truffles, and led forays for the North American Truffling Society for 20 years as Trufflemaster. 

“I’ve been interested in mushrooms for a long time.  I’ve been hunting mushroom for a long time, way before the 80’s.  I started to study about mushrooms in the early …

Joyce Eberhart is retired from Oregon State University after 38 years in research. For most of her career she enjoyed doing research on forest mushrooms and truffles with her husband, Dan Luoma.

Jon has led mushroom forays, given lectures on a range of mycological topics, and taught mushroom identification across the U.S. for more than 45 years. 

Mushroom educator. Founding member of Cascade Mycological Society.

Dave Pilz is a retired forest mycologist. During his career, he spent nine years conducting research on the Productivity and Sustainable Harvest of Edible Forest Mushrooms at the Pacific Northwest Research Station (USDA-Forest Service) in Corvallis, Oregon

For over 30 years, Chris Melotti has worked as a wildlife biologist and Molly Widmer as a forest botanist.

Anna retired from UC Berkeley in 2005 and lives in Florence OR where she forages in the Siuslaw National Forest for mushrooms and hikes the local beaches for agates