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Forest Pub on the Road! Mushrooms: Forage, Identify and Prepare
On Thursday, October 29th, the World Forestry Center and Tim Glassman, Chair of the Oregon Mycological Society Education Committee, bring their Forest Pub series to the Lovell Showroom for a Bonus Thursday Night Lecture: Mushrooms: Forage, Identify, and Prepare.
Tim Glassman is currently the Chair of the Education Committee of the Oregon Mycological Society (OMS). He has been teaching Beginner’s ID and Toxicology to members and is currently creating a new Fungal Ecology class. Tim grew up in Buffalo, New York where he foraged around town riding his bicycle. Since then, he earned a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from MIT and worked as a Semiconductor Process Engineer at Intel for 21 years. After retiring in 2018, he joined OMS to learn about the diversity of mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest.
Doors to the Lovell Showroom open at 6pm with food and beverages available via the Taproom window. All ages welcome and never a cover!
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