Mycology

Alpine Fungi Collected In Beartooth Mountains Of Montana (Science Daily)

8 Sep 2008

Some of the world's top experts on fungi recently collected fungi and mushrooms above tree line in the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Mont.

International experts collect alpine fungi in Beartooth Mountains of Montana (PhysOrg)

8 Sep 2008

Armed guards once kept polar bears away while Cathy Cripps collected mushrooms and fungi on the island of Svalbard between Norway and the North Pole. Another time, Cripps encountered musk-oxen while gathering fungi in Greenland.

Bat e_SFlbdisaster (Albany Times Union)

1 Sep 2008

Researchers seek what killed perhaps 100,000 of the winged creatures Under a microscope, the fungus is almost beautiful ? a kind of spiky white snowflake. But it's a suspected killer.In his laboratory, Ward Stone, a state wildlife pathologist at Five Rivers Environmental Center in New Scotland, hunts for the identity of this fungus. Last winter, it was found on thousands of bats that died ...