Second foray. My friend Richard and I spent 3 hours or so covering less than 100 yards of a side road near New Bullard's Bar Reservoir finding 27 plus types of fungi. Pictures on the Yahoo Group site for The Sacramento Tracker ....

An amazing treaure trove of colors and shapes. Many lessons on field collecting were learned as we made mistakes. Now we need to work on identification!

Edit: Reflections. We probably were too greedy in collecting the number of fungi we did. Harvesting fewer kinds and getting better notes and photos of each on site would stand us in better stead long term. Also saddled ourselves with a big job back at the ranch to figure out all the IDs. Hard to resist the candy shop spread we found though!