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Group of students poses for a photo in the woods.
The MiddMyco Club hosts a mushroom walk each Sunday from mid-April through the end of the semester to gather samples for a statewide initiative to understand fungi populations.
Students crouch down to examine fungi in a wooded area.
Members of the MiddMyco Club found plentiful samples as soon as they set foot in the woods at the edge of campus.
Two students hiking in the woods look at a piece of paper.
Daniel Lyons ’29 (left) led the foraging trip on a stretch of the Trail Around Middlebury.
Student in red jacket photographs a fungi sample in the woods.
Students photographed samples for the iNaturalist project MycoMapVT.
Close-up of fungi growing on a stump with student walking by in background.
Early-season fungi seen along the Trail Around Middlebury near the College campus.
Two students look at fungi growing on dead wood in a field.
Dead and decaying wood provided the best opportunities to spot fungi.
Two students in the woods--one marks a data sheet with pencil
When they found a new sample, students photographed it for iNaturalist, then filled out a field data slip with information about where and how it was growing.
A student in the woods holds a garter snake in his hands
There were many signs of life along the trail as students foraged for fungi.
Students examine two samples of fungi on a dead log.
Students observed and recorded characteristics of the samples before bagging them to be sent for genome sequencing.

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