From: mycos@shaw.ca   
      
   On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:37:13 -0800, mushroomgroup@mushroomgroup.nym wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:05:39 GMT, in alt.nature.mushrooms Mycos   
      
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:00:06 -0800, mushroomgroup@mushroomgroup.nym wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>	   
   >>>   
   >>> Found our first cauliflower mushroom today while hunting a geocache.  The   
   >>>mushroom was right at the cash, I guess geocachers are not all mushroom   
   hunters.   
   >>   
   >>Interesting! I'd never heard of geo-caching until a day I was out hunting   
   mushrooms and   
   >>found one with the instructions, internet contacts etc. inside of it.   
   Luckily I have   
   >>internet access and was able to look into what the whole thing was about. I   
   made my little   
   >>trade (spore prints of course ) and put the thing back where I found it.   
   >>   
   >> Unfortunately I don't yet own a GPS. This is something I definitely want to   
   look into   
   >>getting however as I know that many of the most valuable commercial   
   mushrooms, Matsutake   
   >>(Tricholoma magnivelare) for instance, will grow in a mycorrhizal   
   (symbiotic) relationship   
   >>with the same tree year after year. Given this fact , plus the most valuable   
   ones being   
   >>the buttons that have not yet broken the surface, a GPS coordinate would be   
   invaluable.   
   >>One can go back when none are yet visible and start patting the moss and   
   investigating the   
   >>"mushrumps" for buttons still hidden by moss or duff.   
   >>   
   >>Gary Williams   
   >   
   >   
   >We marked the spot on our GPS so we can go back next year and harvest it   
   again.   
   >I wanted a GPS so I could mark mushroom finds and alotropa.   
      
   Yup. Exactly the idea.   
   As for the Alotropa though, MOF has mapped a lot of the different plants out   
   there to use   
   as indicators of what the soil types, etc are. so they can tell what the best   
   tree species   
   to replant or whatever other need they might have.  There's lists of plants   
   that go with   
   these maps, including graphs with the percentage or likelihood of finding   
   certain plants   
   in certain BGC zones*(as they're called) would be. It's well worth a persons   
   time to   
   figure out how to read these maps, not only for the locations of the tree and   
   plants   
   species but for the old skid trails and other things not found on normal maps.   
      
   Gary   
      
   Gary Williams   
      
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