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Paul Stamets is on a quest to find an endangered mushroom
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IN THE OLD-GROWTH forests of the Pacific Northwest grows a bulbous, prehistoric-looking mushroom called agarikon. It prefers to colonize century-old Douglas fir trees, growing out of their trunks like an ugly mole on a finger. When I first met Paul Stamets, a mycologist who has spent more than three decades hunting, studying, and tripping on mushrooms, he had found only two of these unusual fungi, each time by accident—or, as he might put it, divine intervention.

Stamets believes that unlocking agar i kon's secrets may be as important to the future of human health as Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillium mold's antibiotic properties more than 80 years ago. And so on a sunny July day, Stamets is setting off on a voyage along the coastal islands of southern British Columbia in hopes of bagging more of the endangered fungus before deforestation or climate change irreparably alters the ecosystems where it makes its home. Agarikon may be ready to save us—but we may have to save it first.

http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/11/paul-stamets-mushroom


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Re: Paul Stamets is on a quest to find an endangered mushroom [Re: Taco Chef]
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Thank you.

I advise everyone to click the link.

:thumbup:

Would you mind posting the full article in the News forum?

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Re: Paul Stamets is on a quest to find an endangered mushroom [Re: Adden]
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done


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Edited by ModularMind (06/30/21 08:31 PM)

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Re: Paul Stamets is on a quest to find an endangered mushroom [Re: ModularMind]
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I really enjoy Stamets' work, here's some more:

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world


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Edited by ModularMind (06/30/21 08:32 PM)

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Re: Paul Stamets is on a quest to find an endangered mushroom [Re: ModularMind]
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Paul Stamets is one of my heroes.

One of my favorite stories I tell people about Stamets is how he'll take a bow and arrow and shoot shelf fungi growing high up on old growth trees so he can take a core sample for culture without destroying the fungus.

Most of the people I tell that story to generally don't think it's nearly as cool as I do, but that's because they're ignorant fucking swine. :awesome:


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Re: Paul Stamets is on a quest to find an endangered mushroom [Re: Taco Chef]
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cool man

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