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Hello. My name is Jason and I hunt mushrooms. I'm also the admin now.


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Hello Everyone,

Most of you don't know me because I have mainly been a lurker, meaning I haven't posted, I just look at all of your posts and enjoy seeing your finds. Early on I used to post. I was actually a member before Mary took over the site and it moved to a new address. Then I one spring when I decided to check things out again, I realized that the site was gone! Fortunately, only the address had changed. At that time, Mary was asking for donations to help keep the site alive. So I offered to volunteer in helping out with the technical side of things (although Mary handled that pretty well).

A little background. I live in northern Minnesota and mainly hunt mushrooms to eat. I walk around mushrooms when I see them, I mow around the maitake that grows in my front yard, I like taking close up photos of mushrooms. If I notice an interesting one I've never seen before, I will usually take photos and look into what it is. With that said, I do not claim to be an expert. Many of you in the group are very knowledgeable and far exceed me in your understanding. However, I work as a freelance web developer... since northern Minnesota is a hard market, I also work as an in-house web developer for our local public television station, Lakeland Public Television. So it makes sense with my background and interest in mycology that I take over as administrator of the site. But like I said before, I don't plan on any big changes. Also, I'm only administrator which means I just run the things in the background that you mostly will never notice.

I'll try to post a little more from time to time but I'll still be lurking (not in a creepy way) :-)

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Thanks everyone. I'm looking forward to having fun with this.

Hey Jason. Thanks for keeping this website going, it really means a lot, at least to me.

This forum means a lot to me too. I know we aren't alone in this. That's pretty much why I took over when Mary told me she was looking to have someone else take over :-)

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Jason, Thank you very much. I've followed this "site" in it's various profiles for years. Every time it changes it seems the same people do the same. Excellent advisors and amateurs alike. It was gut wrenching to click and find your "go site" gone. People like Dave, Mary et al seem to be steadfast in their willingness to not only offer advice but moderate a well run site.

Again Thank You!

When I run across budding mycofiles this is the place I send them too and it's good to know there's someone with the background and desire to keep it going.

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This forum is great, I'm very happy that when I started mushroom hunting, it was here I started to look for ID and advise and not some other mushroom forum and fb pages I've now come across. People are really bold in some of them to ID a fungus without having a clue what they are talking about, and so confidently too. It's great to learn from the best not only to be able to ID a mushroom, but also to present it for ID properly, and properly word your assumptions. Thanks to Dave W, of course :)

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Hi Jason. Just a thought, maybe it shows differently on the computer (I'm on my phone) but a 'donate' button in a more obvious spot may help rake in some support and if the site owner makes a few bucks who cares. Just a thought. I'd prefer this site keeps kicking. I'm pretty new but I do want to further explore parasitic funguses and feel this site is offering good direction so far with mushrooms in general.

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Hi Jason. Just a thought, maybe it shows differently on the computer (I'm on my phone) but a 'donate' button in a more obvious spot may help rake in some support and if the site owner makes a few bucks who cares. Just a thought. I'd prefer this site keeps kicking. I'm pretty new but I do want to further explore parasitic funguses and feel this site is offering good direction so far with mushrooms in general.

Thanks for pointing that out. I think you're right. I was thinking about moving it but was a little afraid to rock the boat or seem like I'm begging. I think I'll move it soon because I will need help financially to keep this site going. Also, I just went to the site on my phone and don't see a donate button at all!

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