Fungi fans and experts unite in Newfoundland’s forests to document and preserve our natural heritage

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[] [] [] :skip ****** v2c - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq9bltV.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq9bltH_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq9bltH_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true map: [.text] [.+paragraphs] He zeroed in on his target, a bright red mushroom, then bagged and tagged it. The 10-year-old from St John’s and his mother, along with 68 others, were taking part in a mycology event called Foray NL. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2d - diptych photos with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych aspect-ratio: 4-3 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq3a_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq3a_lg.jpg photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq3b_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq3b_lg.jpg [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** v2f - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq11_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq11lt_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq11lt_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: false [.text] [.+paragraphs] Like Sterling, many participants are not mycology experts, but are fascinated by mushrooms, and the ecosystem they inhabit, nevertheless. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2g - diptych photos with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych aspect-ratio: 4-3 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq4_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq4_lg.jpg photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq5lt_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq5_lg.jpg [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** v2h - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq7_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq7_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq7_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: false [.text] [.+paragraphs] Unlike at other forays, these enthusiasts have an opportunity to contribute to science. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2i - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq8ltV.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq8_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq8_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] “What makes Foray NL unique is the fact that they not only collect, but they also photograph, catalogue and eventually transport all the specimens found during the Foray to the fungarium at Grenfell Campus of Memorial University,” said Dr. Alfredo Justo, a mycologist and the curator of Botany and Mycology at the New Brunswick Museum. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2j - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq9altV.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq9altH_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq9altH_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] It is estimated that less than 10 per cent of fungal species globally have been identified. [] [] [] :skip ****** ad unit ****** :endskip [.slide] type: ad [] :skip ****** v2k - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq10m_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq10_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq10_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] In 2000, Dr. Andrus Voitk, newly retired to Newfoundland, sent some pictures to his cousin, a mycologist, in Estonia. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2l - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq6altV.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq6altH_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq6altH_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** v2m - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq6b_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq6b_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq6bltH_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] She replied with such enthusiasm that he invited her to visit; her colleagues at the University of Tartu were soon intrigued. Things snowballed from there. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2n - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq12ltV.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq12ltH_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq12ltH_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] “Other mycologists in Canada and the U.S. wanted to come too. Before we knew it, the first Foray was born.” That was more than 20 years ago. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2o - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq13_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq13_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq13_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false [.text] [.+paragraphs] This year, faculty members from different provinces and from the U.S. were invited. Renée Lebeu (Quebec) and Dr. Rachel Sweeny (U.S.), both pillars of mycology in North America, attended. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2p - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq14_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq14_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq14_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] Inside the visitor centre at Salmonier Nature Park, scientific interest in mushrooms met culinary appreciation. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2q - diptych photos with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych aspect-ratio: 4-3 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq15a_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq15a_lg.jpg photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq15b_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq15b_lg.jpg [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] Mother-daughter duo Amelia and Joanna Dicks shared mushroom sourdough bread with a small crowd. Someone else fried up a golden chanterelle, a sought-after ingredient named Cantharellus enelensis, after the province (NL). [] [] [] :skip ****** v2r - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq16alt_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq16alt_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq16alt_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false [.text] [.+paragraphs] “Newfoundland is in a unique position for fungi,” said Dr Greg Thorn, a leading mycologist and a professor at the department of biology at Western University. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2s - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq16bltV.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq16bltH_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq16bltH_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] “There are elements we find in the fungi community here in Newfoundland that are more European than the rest of North America.” [] [] [] :skip ****** ad unit ****** :endskip [.slide] type: ad [] :skip ****** v2t - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq18_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq18_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq18_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] In the basement of the visitor centre, graduate students tapped away on laptops, inputting data. Circular dehydrators were filled with freshly collected specimens. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2u - diptych photos with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: diptych aspect-ratio: 4-3 [.diptych] photo-1-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq19a_sm.jpg photo-1-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq19a_lg.jpg photo-2-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq19b_sm.jpg photo-2-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq19b_lg.jpg [] [.text] [.+paragraphs] [] [] [] :skip ****** v2v - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq20_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq20_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq20_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: false fullscreen-desktop: false [.text] [.+paragraphs] “With a small group of people, the faculty and our volunteers work tirelessly to get a lot done in a very short amount of time,” said Dr. Helen Spencer, president of Foray NL. [] [] [] :skip ****** v2w - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq17ltV.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq17_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq17_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: true [.text] [.+paragraphs] “As we try to grow our membership and encourage more people to participate in future Forays, we wanted to make sure the essence of the Foray NL is intact.” [] [] [] :skip ****** v2x - photo with optional text ****** :endskip [.slide] type: photo photo-sm: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq21m_sm.jpg photo-lg: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq21_lg.jpg photo-xl: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/files/interactive/canada/features/photo-popup/stories/mushroom-hunters/images/shrooms-seq21_xl.jpg fullscreen-mobile: true fullscreen-desktop: false [.text] [.+paragraphs] “I still remember what our founder Dr. Voitk said to me at a Foray many years ago. ‘Never mind the mushroom, look after the people.’ ” [] [] [] :skip ****** final sequence - 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Lam, recently relocated from Ontario to Newfoundland, is a Pulitzer grantee and a regular contributor to the Globe and Mail. He is fascinated by the people, ecology and wild landscape of his new home province. His decision to document the Foray NL is mainly driven by his appetite for curiosity as well as for edible mushrooms, and to explore the commitments to fungi studies from passionate professional and amateur mycologists. [] :skip ****** credits ****** :endskip [.slide] type: credits [.+credits] Photography, story by Johnny C.Y. Lam Editing by Lisan Jutras Photo editing by Theresa Suzuki Digital building by Evan Annett Visuals editing by Liz Sullivan Interactive design and development by Christopher Manza [] [] [] `; !function(){"use strict";window.addEventListener("message",(function(a){if(void 0!==a.data["datawrapper-height"]){var e=document.querySelectorAll("iframe");for(var t in a.data["datawrapper-height"])for(var r=0;r