Speaker Series

Plants & Fungi

Saturday 14 June, 1:00pm
admission by donation

Plants are fascinating. Fungi are fascinating. But for sheer entertainment value, it’s difficult to beat plants plus fungi. Fungi have been associated with plants since plants first colonized the land, and are requisite partners of almost all of our familiar Sooke plants.

 

Presenter: Forest ecologist Andy MacKinnon (MSc, DSc) is the co-author of six best-selling guidebooks to BC plants, and the Royal BC Museum Handbook “Mushrooms of British Columbia”. Through his 30-year career with the BC Forest Service, Andy was involved in defining and implementing ecosystem-based management in Haida Gwaii and the Great Bear Rainforest. He has co-taught rainforest ecology field courses in Bamfield and Tofino (for UVic) and Haida Gwaii (for UBC). Andy is a retired BC Professional Forester and Professional Biologist, President of the South Vancouver Island Mycological Society, and Board Chair for our regional land trust, Habitat Acquisition Trust. He is an enthusiastic advocate for conservation and responsible resource management.