Notices and Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
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Some news from the Puget Sound Mycological Society:
Meetings of the Puget Sound Mycological Society are held on the second Tuesday of each month. The sessions are ideal learning opportunities for new mushroom enthusiasts. For more information about upcoming meetings of the Society, click here.
Washington State Personal Use Mushroom Harvesting Rules can be difficult to interpret but help is available at the PSMS website. For a summary of information on the Rules, click here.
Announcing the new series Monographs in North American Lichenology
Northwest Lichenologists has begun to produce a series of reasonably-priced, peer-reviewed, paperback academic books on lichens, with a focus on topics of regional interest, such as generic monographs, annotated state lists, ecological works, local floras, and symposium proceedings. Our purpose is to provide an outlet for books and papers too long for regular scientific journals, but still of wide interest. Volumes will be produced sporadically. We expect 0-2 volumes per year. Works on any aspect of lichenology will be considered.
Part of our purpose is to resist the high cost of commercial publishers. Four factors make this possible: first, the increased proficiency of scientists with word processing software; second, the fact that we are a volunteer organization; third, authors can assume most of the responsibility for layout, producing documents that are nearly ready for the printer; and fourth, we can rely on the web, meetings, and word of mouth for sales, rather than commercial advertising.
Prospective authors, please consider this new monograph series as an outlet for your work in progress. Instructions for authors are posted at the web link below. We hope that many lichenologists will join us in this venture, whether as authors, reviewers, or readers.
Volume 1
The first volume of the new series, Monographs in North American Lichenology is now available:
McCune, B. and R. Rosentreter. 2007. Biotic Soil Crust Lichens of the Columbia Basin. Monographs in North American Lichenology 1: 1-105. Paperback. US$30 + shipping. Fully illustrated in color.
Three ways to obtain a copy are:
1. Mail order ( http://www.nwlichens.org ). Please visit this site to view sample pages and to obtain shipping costs and other ordering details.
2. In person in Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
3. In person at forthcoming meetings of NW Lichenologists and the International Association of Lichenologists (in Monterey, California in 2008).
Bruce McCuneCorvallis, Oregon, USA