Every year, the Peck Foray unites lovers of mushrooms and other fungi for a weekend of collecting and identification. It's been hosted since 1954 by a different volunteer organizer each year. This year:


55th annual
Charles Horton Peck
New York State Mushroom Foray

September 19 –21, 2008

The 2008 Charles Horton Peck Annual New York State Mushroom Foray will be held at the Brauer Field Station near Albany, NY.

55th Annual
Charles Horton Peck NY State Mushroom Foray
Friday Sept. 19 – Sunday Sept. 21, 2008
Brauer Field Station of
SUNY Cortland,
near Albany, NY

Program and pricing to be announced.

The Peck Foray is open to all who are interested in fungi. This year's Invitation and Registration Forms are coming soon. Look for them here in mid-August.

Includes: Dinner on Friday (19th); Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner on Saturday (20th); Breakfast, Lunch on Sunday (21st), and lodging (bring your own linens/blankets, sleeping bag). Room for about 40 people in cabins and the main lodge.

Cost: approximately $90 (that's the latest estimate!)

Program: To be determined (there was a Langermannia toss in 2003)

Click here to view more information about Brauer Field Station (about 8 miles SW of Albany NY (see map)--site of the 50th Peck in 2003 when Hurricane Isabel landed). You may contact the organizers with questions, or to be added to the Peck mailing list.

This year's co-organizers are:

Dr. Tim Baroni
SUNY-Cortland

Dr. Roy Halling
New York Botanical Garden

 

you are here: http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/CUPpages/Peck.html