Southeast Chapter 2016 Foray Calendar

Interested in helping to host a foray in your neck of the woods?  Email WMS Foray Director.  Unless noted, all forays start at 10am SHARP.
 July 21 - 24, 2016-Northwoods Foray-Thursday evening-Sunday morning, July 21-24. The meeting place is Little Pine Motel 9245 State Highway 32, Hiles, WI 54511-(715) 649-3431.  The foray consists of several sub-forays to different locations. Foray Leaders:  Lost Lake area:Susan and Jim Selle. Giant Pine Trail:  Peter and Colleen Vachuska. Special Guest Expert:  Tavis Lynch. $40 members,  non members $50.  
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​ July 30, 2016-A Midsummer Foray in the South Kettle Moraine-A Midsummer Foray in the South Kettle Moraine-Kettle Moraine South. Meet at the parking lot /trailhead for the Nordic Ski Trails.  The trailhead is located on the east side of Highway H (Kettle Moraine Drive), north of LaGrange and south of Palmyra.  Note:  This is a different location than where we have been meeting the last few years for the midsummer foray. Foray Leader:John Steinke 262-363-7407. 
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​September 1-4, 2016-2016  Second  Annual Wisconsin Mycological Society – Minnesota Mycological Society Bayfield County Foray-Thursday Sept. 1 -Sunday Sept. 4. Where: Cable Museum of Natural History, Cable, Wisconsin, and Lakewoods Resort, Lake Namakagon, Wisconsin
Coordinators:Britt A. Bunyard, WMS, Emily Stone, Naturalist, Cable Museum of Natural History, Cable, Wisconsin. Patrick Leacock, Field Museum, Chicago; Guest Mycologist.
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September 10, 2016-WMS Glacier Hills Foray: Glacier Hills(main parking lot on the lower level.  There is a large enclosed shelter building (shelter #1) with restrooms. The forest is mixed hardwoods and in September there should be hens and honeys. There is a picnic area and a hall where we can eat if the weather does not cooperate. Please bring a picnic lunch. Foray Leaders: Susan Selle, Jim Selle.
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September 17, 2016-WMS Walking Iron Foray: Walking Iron County Park-Mazomani. Walking Iron has some of the best unplowed dry prairie left in Dane County, as well as restored dry prairie and dry woods on the parking lot level. This area has some of the best stomach fungus diversity, &  the lower level, along Marsh Creek, some of the best Bolete and Cortinarius diversity.  Foray Leaders: Bob and Judy Kaplan (847) 740-0978. 
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​September 18, 2016-WMS Sami Saad Memorial Foray::Please join WMS on this foray into the Mauthe Lake State Park. This site provides a wide variety of fungal environments, from rolling hills and kettles, to marsh/wetlands and lake. This is WMS' 14th memorial foray to honor Sami Saad, a longtime WMS member. This was one of Sami's favorite foray locations. Mauthe Lake State Forest. Meet in the parking lot to park off HWY GGG. Park Fee required.Bring a picnic lunch – there are several nice picnic areas where we will identify our finds.
Foray Leader: Steve Shapson.  
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September 25, 2016-Fall Foray, Mirror Lake State Park (Wisconsin Dells region):  Mirror Lake State Park (Wisconsin Dells region). We'll have to see if Honey mushrooms are in season this year. If not, there are always plenty of Suillus species to pick, but they grow in a different spot, so further directions within the park will depend. But we'll have to park by the park office and walk from there - all the rest of the parking areas are tiny - for 5-6 cars or so.  Foray Leader: Andrew Khitsun.  
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October 1, 2016-Tula Erskine/Fred Hainier Memorial Foray at Point Beach State Park.
Please join WMS for our annual Tula Erskine and Fred Hainier Memorial Foray into Point Beach State Park. Bring a picnic lunch - we can eat while we try to identify our finds. A valid Wisconsin State Park sticker (annual or daily) is required.Point Beach. Foray Leader: Chuck Soden  (262) 495-2117.  
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October 8. 2016-WMS Coral Woods Conservation Area Foray (with the Illinois Myco Association): Please join WMS and the Illinois Mycological Association for our 13th foray into the Coral Woods Conservation Area in Illinois. Coral Woods is about 400 acres of old sugar maples (some 70–100 yrs. old) and our fall favorite, oaks. Bring a picnic lunch – we will gather under a shelter (in case of inclement weather) while trying to identify our finds. We hope our friends from the Illinois Mycological Society can join us for this foray into their home turf. Foray Leaders: Bob & Judy Kaplan   (847) 740-0978.                                        
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