A Good Time to be a Fungus - March 3rd @ 7:30 PM

Illinois Mycological Association
March 3rd at 7:30 PM
Guests are always welcome.

Welcome back for the 2008 mushroom season. Our first meeting of the year will be with Kevin Boyce, telling us about “A Good Time to be a Fungus.” 200 million years before the dinosaurs and 20 million years before trees, the largest life on land stood 20 feet tall—a full 17 or 18 feet taller than anything else in the landscape. It appears to have been a fungus. How does one go about assigning an identity to such a fossil? What does it tell us about the earliest terrestrial ecosystems that predate our ancestors leaving the water for dry land?

Directions:
The North Park Village Nature Center is located just off the Edens Expressway (I-94). You will exit at Peterson and travel east to Pulaski. Go south (right) on Pulaski until you reach the North Park Village complex which will be on the east (left) side of the street. Once you have entered the complex, follow the signs, bearing left. You will come to a group of buildings surrounding parking lots on the right. The Nature Center is on the left (North) as you enter. It is a small building, with a small sign in front.

North Park Village Nature Center
5801 N. Pulaski,
Chicago, IL

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