Exploring the Mycoverse: Alison Pouliot on Restoring Fungi

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Join us in discussing the inspiring new book Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms ! Click "Read more" below for more information.

<h4>Exploring the Mycoverse Presents...</h4><h3>Restoring Fungi – Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms</h3>Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres by <a href="https://alisonpouliot.com" title="https://alisonpouliot.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alison Pouliot</a>Organized and hosted by Aaron Tupac Sponsored by Arlington GardenJoin us in our second discussion on the recently released book Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms where we will focus our discussion on the last chapter of the book "Restoring Fungi" as the Mycoverse explores how fellow myconuats can get involved with mycological conservation. The well-known photographer Alison Pouliot with over 20 years experience in the field, recently published Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms this last September about her personal fungal journey traveling across the world reflecting on “how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility.”It is a very fitting read for the Mycoverse as we explore deeper how to cultivate awareness, appreciation, and connection with the more-than-human world of fungi. The second half of the book will appeal more to seasoned Myconauts as it touches more on the relational and conservation pieces our focus in the Mycoverse is typically drawn to.Books are readily available via special order at <a href="https://northfigbookshop.com" title="https://northfigbookshop.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">North Figueroa Bookshop </a>– mention Brenna &amp; Exploring the Mycoverse!Before our discussion, we invite you to: Read the second half of the book, Chapters 7 through 10 and the Epilogue, pages 132-255. Our focus will be on chapters: <ul><li>Women as Keepers of Fungal Lore (Ch. 9)</li><li>Restoring Fungi (Ch. 10) </li></ul>About Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms from the publisher: Author: <a href="https://alisonpouliot.com" title="https://alisonpouliot.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alison Pouliot</a> Published: September 2023A whirlwind journey through fungus frontiers that underscores how appreciating fungi is key to understanding our planet’s power and fragility.What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Splitting time between the northern and southern hemispheres, ecologist Alison Pouliot ensures that she experiences two autumns per year in the pursuit of fungi—from Australia’s deserts to Iceland’s glaciers to America’s Cascade Mountains. In Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms, we journey alongside Pouliot, magnifiers in hand, as she travels the world.With Pouliot as our guide, we smell fire-loving truffles that transform their scent after burning to lure mammals who eat them and, ultimately, spread their spores. We spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus, a deceptive entity that looks like an edible oyster mushroom but will soon heave back out—along with everything else in your stomach—if you take a bite. And we crawl alongside vegetable caterpillars, which are neither vegetable nor caterpillar but a fungus that devours insects from the inside out.Featuring stunning color photographs of these mycological miracles, Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms shows that understanding fungi is fundamental for harmonizing with the natural world.About the Author from the Author, <a href="https://alisonpouliot.com" title="https://alisonpouliot.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Alison Pouliot</a>:"I am an ecologist and environmental photographer who uses <a href="http://alisonpouliot.com/publications/" title="http://alisonpouliot.com/publications/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">words</a> and <a href="http://alisonpouliot.com/photo-essays/" title="http://alisonpouliot.com/photo-essays/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">images</a> to evoke stories of the living world, as well as the non-living. I’m especially interested in forgotten corners and lifeforms; the stuff that slips between the cracks. I aim to convey the extraordinariness of life, both peculiar and familiar. I am rather partial to the <a href="https://alisonpouliot.com/fungal-realm/" title="https://alisonpouliot.com/fungal-realm/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">fungal </a>and the spineless.A penchant for new ventures and experiences has led me to unique and remote environments within Australia and beyond. I endeavour to document the moods and resonances of those places in the hope of inspiring their protection and conservation."Join Exploring the Mycoverse's mycelial network:<ul><li>Sign up for the <a href="https://aarontupac.substack.com/" title="https://aarontupac.substack.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Sporinator Substack email newsletter.</a></li></ul><ul><li>Follow Exploring the Mycoverse on<a href="https://instagram.com/mycoverse_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=" title="https://instagram.com/mycoverse_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Instagram</a>.</li></ul>