Name: PreFest Workshop: FULL DAY Foray, Sequence, Photography, Microscopy
Start: 2025-06-08T09:00:00-0600
End: 2025-06-08T17:00:00-0600

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 44th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! A plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations, to lectures—all led by regionally-, nationally-, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the Parade!) there is plenty for everyone each and every day.

On this website, you can filter your search by events, venues, presenters, etc. Each year the Mushroom Festival features many wonderful presentations on “all things fungi.” Presentations on similar topics are grouped together at the same venue so that attendees interested will be able to spend more time learning and interacting, and less time walking between venues. See who else is interested in each event and interact with our extended Mushroom Family. See you soon!

Sunday June 8, 2025 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT

Carhenge Parking Lot @ 700 W Pacific Ave, Telluride, CO 81435, USA

Prefest workshops are an extra paid ticket purchased - not for general admission passes!

Join Amy Honan, Alan Rockefeller, Mandie Quark and James Chelin in this field-to-fungarium event!
Participants will learn how to identify and document rare fungi for conservation. We will foray in the mountains around Telluride in the morning and learn how to photodocument and collect fungi for preservation. In the afternoon we will transition to the lab where we will learn how to use microscopes to identify fungi. We take additional photos and learn photo processing techniques, we will upload our collections to iNaturalist, and prepare our collections to be accessioned into the Sam Mitchell Herbarium of Fungi at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Our collections will be sent for DNA sequencing. There will be a follow up virtual meeting in October where foray participants will learn how to analyze the DNA sequences from their own personal fungal collections. This is a full day experience of foraying, photographing, sequencing, and microscopy.

Speakers

Alan Rockefeller (he/him)

Alan is a mycologist specializing in DNA barcoding, field photography, and fungal microscopy. Committed to his cause, Alan has been studying fungal diversity for more than two decades, and since 2001 he has photographed more than 2,500 species of fungi. In order to discover new fungi... Read More →

Mandie Quark (she/her)

Molecular mycologist and science writer by training, Mandie Quark is a genomic researcher with a passion for the advancement of community mycology. Her specialty is creative communication around fungal DNA sequencing, and she specializes in explaining the complexities of science to... Read More →

Amy Honan

Amy is a mycologist interested in fungal systematics, evolution, ecology, and biogeography. She received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Western Colorado University in Gunnison, CO where she studied the population genetics of the root pathogen Armillaria and water chemistry of the Mt... Read More →

Sunday June 8, 2025 9:00am - 5:00pm MDT
Carhenge Parking Lot

Special Event - Extra Ticket Required, Foray

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45th Telluride Mushroom Festival

Alan Rockefeller (he/him)

Mandie Quark (she/her)

Amy Honan

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