Alaska's Mushrooms

Dr. Gary A. Laursen is an adjunct Research Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, was instrumental in maintaining the state's largest and longest-running outreach program for secondary STEM research, now directs the UAF Honors Program, and faculty advises Golden Key. He has written and published over 375 pieces while also serving twenty years as a high school teacher concomitant with his thirty-five years of university instruction and research. He is the coauthor of the book Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams: Fungi, Lichenicolous Fungi, Lichenized Fungi, Slime Molds, Mosses, and Liverworts, University of Alaska Press, (2009).Neil McArthur grew up in Scotland, Quebec, and western New York, earned a B.Sc. in forestry from Syracuse in 1962, and ran away to Alaska. He worked as naturalist, forester, game biologist, cartographer, greenhouseman, carpenter, and museum facility manager. Neil helped his wife, Harriette Parker, author the 1994 Alaska’s Mushrooms, and provided most of its photos.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSMAPMEET THE MUSHROOMMushroom PhylaRoles Played by MushroomsIdentifying Wild StrangersMushroom Groups, Their Names and Spore Producing SurfacesUse of Common NamesThe Species ListDescribing and Labeling Treasured FindsFungal Collecting LabelsFormal Fungal DescriptionsHunting Mushrooms in the WildMushroom Spore PrintsSafe ’ShroomingCollecting with CareQuestions Often HeardMushroom Toxin ClassificationMUSHROOM DESCRIPTIONSEATING MUSHROOMS, ALASKAN-STYLEPreparing Wild Mushrooms for Use:Mushroom Recipes:Morel Mushroom Stroganoff Morel Mushroom Gravy Morel Mushroom Soup Psilly’s Bruschetta With Chanterelles L. McLaren’s Wild Rice Mushroom Soup Salmon Fillet with MorelsSautéed MushroomsMushroom and Noodle SoupAn Outdoorsman’s Seasonal SpecialsPan-fried PuffballsSpicy Tofu and Hedgehog Stir-fryMoose and Mushroom StewMUSHROOM FIELD & REFERENCE GUIDESLITERATURE CITATIONSPICTORIAL GLOSSARY TERMS GLOSSARYSUBJECT INDEXAUTHOR BIOLIST OF FIGURESPHOTO CREDITS