A writer for the Squamish Chief interviewed Andy for an article about mushrooms poisoning dogs."We don't have a really good understanding of which mushrooms dogs like to munch on. We do know that there's a group of usually odd smelling mushrooms called the fibrecaps, that are poisonous to varying degrees, depending on the species, and that have caused poisonings in dogs"
Breaking news! In Telluride, Colorado, on Sunday, August 18, 2024, Andy MacKinnon received the Lincoff Award for Significant Contributions to American Mycology.Previous receipients of this award include David Nichols and Paul Stamets.(Photos of the Telluride festival parade by Andy MacKinnon.)
The BC Museum Travelling Exhibit based on The Mushrooms of British Columbia will be at the Swan Lake Nature House until mid-January. On January 13, 2024, Andy will be giving a talk at the Centre's Mushroom Open House (see poster). The website for the travelling exhibit has a neat time lapse video that shows the travelling exhibit setup. http://mushroomsofbc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Marvellous_Mushrooms_Cowichan_Setup.mp4
Andy was on CBC Radio Vancouver on November 7 at 6:50 a.m. on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn. You can hear him here.The same day, he was also on the CBC Victoria afternoon show, All Points West with Jason D’Souza, at 5:35 p.m.
Kem Luther featured on CHEK-TV's This Week in History (a series from the Royal BC Museum).The upcoming Fungi Fest at the Royal BC Museum is highlighted.This year, the annual SVIMS mushroom show will take place at Newcombe Hall in the museum.
The mushroom season is finally getting started on the southern end of Vancouver Island.Lots of VI mushroom events over the next few weeks. See the Events tab for the ones that Andy and Kem are involved in. A video about the week, produced as part of the This Week in History series, airs on CHEK-TV's News at 5 program on Saturday, October 14.Big news this year--the SVIMS show is returning to the Royal BC Museum. The Museum has planned a week of fungi events around the opening of their new IMAX film, Fungi: The Web of Life. A still from new This Week in History show
Children's educator and songwriter Rosie Emery recently released a song, Funky Fungi. She was inspired by some recent books on mycorrhizal fungi.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZE9heZOio
Metchosin Foundations's new fundraiser, a boxed set of 36 mushroom art cards, are now available. Text on the back of the cards is by Andy and Kem, adapted (with permission) from Mushrooms of British Columbia. Here's an article about the cards by one of the artists, Dana Nygard, published in the The Westshore. More information on the cards can be found on the Metchosin Biodiversity site.
The BC Museum travelling exhibit on BC's Marvellous Mushrooms, which is based on the box essays in Mushroom of British Columbia, is at the Okanagan Heritage Museum in Kelowna until May 23.
January brought a rare display of hair ice to Metchosin. Did you know that a fungi was involved? Read the Metchosin Muse article by Kem Luther (click on article to read)