Foray Log- Oregon Coast Foray, July 30, 2021

One of the only places to see fungi in the PNW during a drought and wildfire season is at the coast on the west side of the Coastal Range where the fog rolls in and keeps everything damp. We decided to make a day of it and visit 4 different places to observe the early summer fungi. First we stopped at Ona Beach, then met up with the study group at Cape Perpetua, stopped in to the Mike Miller Educational Trail and finally before heading home, walked through Fogarty Creek State Park. It was one long trail of stops up 101 starting in the south and heading north.

I took a last minute trip to the coast with my oldest teenager to spend the day with him before he had archery class. We walked around my favorite coastal forest and found Hydnellum peckii and the little mycoheterotroph, Hemotomes congestum. Our forest exploration led us to the sweetest little fairy forest someone had built out of forest debris next to a cluster of H. congestum. We explored their little village and spent all the time we had building on to the village.