Thu Feb 25 -- Welcoming the Fungi Kingdom

[Adrian Cotter]

Hello my dear nature-loving readers and lecture attendees, 

Sorry for the long hiatus in both emails and talks. There was a busy end and beginning year for both of us organizers (Nissa and myself), but we are well on the way to firming up 4 months of talks... the first of which is nigh upon us (see below). Hopefully with the rain today, you will find some fungi and some good questions for the talk. The first two months will be in the East Bay at Lake Merritt. We'll return to the city in April. In case you are wondering, the Randall will not be open to us til next year, so we'll be wandering, so note days, times and locations for our talks.

Adrian

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Welcoming the Fungi Kingdom
Guest Speaker: Trent Pearce
7pm , Thursday Feb 25th, 2016
FREE Lake Merritt Rotary Nature Center, Oakland, CA

Winter rains bring forth the Kingdom Fungi! Delve into this strange world with Naturalist Trent Pearce of the East Bay Regional Park District. Learn what differentiates fungi from plants and animals, and meet a few of our common fungal genera.

Trent joined the Park District in 2010, working at Ardenwood Historic Farm before coming to the Tilden Nature Area. Natural history has long been his passion; for the preceding six years he served as an interpreter for California State Parks and an environmental educator in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Trent is an autodidactic mycologist, photographer, and an avid birder.

The Location

Lake Merritt’s Rotary Nature Center is at 600 Bellevue Avenue in Oakland. On the Northern shore of Lake Merritt (between it’s two “arms”). Part of the City of Oakland’s Office of Parks and Recreation, the Center is an interpretive museum, providing education about the natural environment while overseeing America’s oldest wildlife refuge and Oakland open spaces. A City of Oakland, Office of Parks and Recreation entity.

We are grateful for their offer of their space.

The Nature Center is about a 20 minute walk from 19th St BART station. Closest bus line from the direction of BART is the NL or the 12. There is street parking.

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Future Talks

* March 22, Mt. Diablo and the Morgan Fire - Joan Hamilton (East Bay )
* April TBD, Historical Atlases of the Environment - Megan Prelinger  (San Francisco, Green Apple on the Park)