South Vancouver Island Mycological Society Monthly meeting and speaker First Thursday of the Month, most months Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 Burnside Road W, Victoria October 2, 2025 7:00pm-9:00pm Speaker: TBA Usually these meetings provide an option to attend by Zoom For details go to the website: https://svims.club
Update: Speaker Noah Siegel Hybrid meeting: In Person and Zoom In person there are mushrooms on display, experts, coffee/tea and new friends!
SVIMS Monthly Meeting October 2nd, 2025 Pacific Forestry Centre 506 Burnside Road West Victoria BC V8Z 4N9 Doors open at 6:30pm to socialize and identify mushrooms. Noah Siegel will share with us Adventures of a Mycohobo Ever wonder what mushrooms occur in the jungles of tropical Africa and South America, or the dripping, moss covered Antarctic Beech forests of New Zealand, or across North America? We will take a photo safari of some of the places I have been working, and highlight my favorite mushrooms and ecosystems. Noah Siegel bio Noah is one of North America’s foremost field mycologists; he has spent over three decades seeking, photographing, identifying, and furthering his knowledge about all aspects of macrofungi. He travels and lectures extensively across America, following the mushrooms from coast to coast. Noah was the recipient of the 2022 North American Mycological Association’s Award for Contributions to Amateur Mycology. His primary research interest is on the taxonomy and systematics of fungi. He authored, along with Christian Schwarz, Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast, a Comprehensive Guide to the Fungi of Coastal Northern California and Mushrooms of Cascaida, a Comprehensive Guide to Fungi of the Pacific Northwest, as well as A field Guide to the Rare Fungi of California's National Forests. He is currently working on Mushrooms of Alaska, with Steve Trudell and Kate Mohatt.
