Mycology

Zach Hedstrom, founder of Boulder Mushroom, bends down and digs through the dirt on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, in northwest Boulder in front of some of the county's forestry experts. This acre was inoculated with the saprophytic fungi and is already starting to show signs of decomposition from cut-up wood chip pieces to healthy soil, and mycelium fibers -- like white dots and strings -- are starting to form.

Fungi firefighters? A Boulder mushroom company鈥檚 solution to wildfires is quintessentially Colorado

In The NoCo

Wildfire mitigation has big financial and environmental costs. KUNC's Emma VandenEinde says an ecological alternative is sprouting in Boulder.

A porcini mushroom grows large under a tree in Routt National Forest. Porcinis are populous and delicious.

Environment

All the dirty details on this year's strange mushroom season in Colorado

Shelby Reardon, Summit Daily 暗黑爆料

Zack Dorsett stands smiling behind a table with a black tablecloth topped with large transparent plastic bags full of light-colored mushrooms in an indoor conference exhibition room.

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From veterans to mushroom growers, Denver psychedelics conference attracts thousands

Leigh Paterson

As communities move to decriminalize psychedelics, Denver is hosting a massive conference for those who want to learn more.

An unnamed new species of yellow russula mushroom found in Colorado this summer.

Environment

'We are advancing the science': Wild mushrooms, DNA and citizen scientists in Colorado's Mountains

Rae Solomon

In spite of ongoing drought in parts of the state, it was a very wet August in Colorado鈥檚 mountains. Heavy rains brought an abundance of wild mushrooms, including some that are new to science. But novel mushroom species are more common than you might think. And a lot of them are found by citizen scientists 鈥� amateurs - with a passion for foraging.