UCSC Mushroom Tri-fold Field Guide

For a couple months, Chris Lay (the Admiral, uh, I mean, Curator... of the UCSC Museum of Natural History Collections), and I have been working on creating one of those fold-out map-style field guides for mushrooms of the UCSC Campus.

I'm tickled pink to report that we are very close to finalizing our first attempt at a product in this format.

20 species, each with a (hopefully not too small) color photo, and a terse (but hopefully astonishingly useful) blurb of text.

If you know me, you can imagine how hard it was to narrow the list to 20 species. And it was. But I feel good about the species that made the final cut, and hopefully we'll be able to build a larger version in the coming months.

Special credit to Noah Siegel for contributing a number of beautiful (and taxonomically useful) photos (including the cover shot) to the project.

Pending consultation with the UCSC bookstore and copyrights office, we hope to sell this thing at Bay Tree, at the 2010-2011 Fungus Fair, and around town at whatever bookstore will host us.