Announcement: 2021 WMS foray project now available, and a place for slime molds
Link to the WMS 2021 foray project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/2021-wms-virtual-foray
You can join this project just as you did the 2020 one, and just as before any fungi (including lichen) you observe during the 2021 year will be automatically collected and shown there.
Our lovely 2020 project will remain up, of course. Whenever you add fungi observations that were taken in 2020, no matter when you put it up, it will go into that project. I, for one, have even more for 2020 yet to upload than I have up at all right now. And as in any science, the process of identification continues forever!
If you have any slime mold observations, want to try identifying slime molds, or like me just like to look at slime molds, please head over to our other new project, WMS slime molds & friends, located here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/slime-molds-friends-by-wms-project-members
Same with the "All Fungi Ever by WMS Members" project (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/all-fungi-by-wisconsin-mycological-society-wms-members), if you have joined any of our "virtual forays", I will add you to these additional projects and your finds will appear in them.
But you can still join these auxiliary projects if you want to, which will put a quick link to them in your "Community" tab and will also show you highlights from them as updates on your home page.
Alternatively, you can check the "umbrella group" page, https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/all-wms-projects for All WMS Projects currently ongoing. There we will also be able to compare different years' forays! The 2021 project will only begin showing up in the umbrella group once we have our first 2021 observation. Impossible, for now... but soon :)
I am looking forward to seeing our first fungus of the New Year!
Thank you to all our observers, identifiers, and anyone who has come to our pages just to appreciate the photography. I can't speak for any of you, but this project has really helped me learn about fungi, particularly what can be seen in and around Wisconsin, and how best to document a fungus for identification.
Mariah
