Mycological Associations

The Gulf States Mycological Society, Inc.

By morel delimma ⋅ July 16, 2006 ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

The Gulf States Mycological Society, Inc. is a non-profit educational organization formed to promote the appreciation and study of the very diversified fungal flora of the Mid-Gulf Coast region by amateur naturalists under the guidance of professional mycologists. Gulf States Mycological Society Inc. is the reorganization of the parent New Orleans Mycological Society, which was originally formed in 1979. This reorganization was brought about by an increasingly widening regional membership. Today this groups has a broad membership base in all the Gulf Coastal States, with additional members scattered across the US.

This Society conducts two major forays a year, and tries to do a number of “informal,” announced, and just groups calling each other and getting together so-called “mini-forays” when fruitings of choice edibles or large flushes of fungi occur. The two “major” forays, however, occur once during the summer months and again in the late fall. A newsletter is published four times a year to inform members of upcoming events, reviews and topics of interest. The society is affiliated with the non-profit North American Mycological Association (NAMA). Visit their site for more information.