Fungi

Fungi other than lichens

• Tree of Life Fungi Page  Up-to-date, informative information about the fungal kingdom
• Mykoweb  Michael Wood's Mycology and Mushrooming web site.
• Armillaria mellea and other wood-decay fungi  From "The Microbial World" Site.  An excellent illustrated introduction to the roles fungi play rotting wood as pathogens and saprobes.
• Mycorrhizae  From "The Microbial World" Site  From "The Microbial World" Site.  An excellent illustrated introduction to this important role of fungi.
• Yeasts and yeast-like fungi  From "The Microbial World" Site.  An excellent illustrated introduction to this ecological life style of fungi
• Edible Forest Mushrooms  The northwest is an important source of commercially harvested, wild mushrooms.  This site details the efforts to manage these resources by the U. S. Forest Service
• Tom Volk's Fungi  Entertaining pages (choose "Fungus of the Month") describing many different kinds of edible and other fungi
• Morel life cycle  Discussion of the interesting life history of this great, edible, from the person (Tom Volk) who helped patent the commercial morel-growing process
• Matchmaker  An online synoptic key to gilled mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest
• Cryptogams in Depth   Fred Rhoades's 3D images of mushrooms and other organisms

Lichens

• Lichenland  A quaint site devoted to our dear friends.  Includes a synopatic key to Northwestern macrolichens
• USDA-Forest Service PNW Lichens and Air Quality   How lichens are being used to monitor the health of Pacific Northwest forests
• North American Lichen Project  Links to several great lichen pages by the photographers of the Magnum Opus lichen book, North American Lichen Flora.  Check out the lichen portrait gallery
• Lichens and People  Ethnolichenological uses, by Silvia Sharnoff, from the North American Lichen Project
• Lichens and Animals  How animals use lichens, by Steve Sharnoff and Roger Rosentreter, from the North American Lichen Project
• Fred Rhoades' lichen airquality monitoring project site