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Schedule for 2025
Schedule for 2025
Guided Lichen Walks and Mushroom Collection Display Work Party
Friday, August 22rd
Noon, Guided Lichen Walk by Celia Hampton-Miller at Birch Hill (Register Here)
7 pm - 9 pm, Alaska Fungi Lecture at UAF Murie Auditorium (Free and open to public)
Saturday August 23th
10 am - Noon, Mushroom collecting foray with Christin Swearingen at Birch Hill (Register Here)
2 pm - 4 pm, Mushroom collecting foray with Christin Swearingen at Chena Pump Rd (Register Here)
5 pm, Guided lichen walk Celia Hampton-Miller at Murphy Dome (Register Here)
Sunday, August 24th- 11 am - 4 pm. Volunteers are need to assist mycologist Christin Swearingen in her efforts to create a display of local mushrooms with collection labels. Volunteers can help in the field, as well in the "studio" for 2 or more hours. The team will be sorting mushroom shape (gilled, boletes, polypores, toothed fungi, clubs & corals, puffballs, cup fungi, other) to speed up identification and labeling of mushrooms. We will also be collecting moss to line the display trays.
Alaska Mushroom Lecture
Alaska Mushroom Lecture
Join us on Friday, August 22, 7pm, for a Alaska Fungi Lecture with visiting mycologist Noah Siegel in the UAF Murie Auditorium. No registration required. OPEN TO ALL!
Friday- Lichen Walk
Friday- Lichen Walk
August 22rd, Friday, 12 pm noon Birch Hill
Have fun searching for lichen in a boreal forest environment, and talking about the habitat, growth form, and life history of lichen.
Suggested donation: $10 to support the Fairbanks Fungi Festival.
Age group: Teens and adults. All minors must be accompany by an adult. Registration is required and is free.
Saturday- Lichen Walk
Saturday- Lichen Walk
August 23th, Saturday 5 pm
Join Celia as she explores the rocky tundra of Murphy Dome, searching for lichen, and talking about the habitat, growth form, and life history of lichen.
Suggested donation: $10 to support the Fairbanks Fungi Festival. Registration is required and is free.
Saturday- Work Party for Mushroom Collection
Saturday- Work Party for Mushroom Collection
Volunteers can help in the field, as well at the display table. Join Christin Swearingen to collect mushroom and lichen, sort collected mushrooms by shape (gilled, boletes, polypores, toothed fungi, clubs & corals, puffballs, cup fungi, other) and line display trays with moss.
Saturday morning foray: 10 am --noon at Birch Hill Rec Area, meeting at the warming hut
Saturday afternoon foray: 2-4 pm at Chinook Conservation Park, meeting across the street from the Chena Pump Transfer Site.
Rain or Shine
Sorry no dogs allowed
Our goal is to have displays ready before the festival begins, freeing our experts to answer questions at the festival. Let us know if you can help by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/X81vfSm94K9Re1uv6
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