Wild Mushrooms in Early September- Wild Mushrooms 101

In this video I will show you a few of the mushrooms you may run across on your nature walk in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. One is very valuable for dyeing fabric with, one is a very sought after and choice edible, and the other a super valuable one for the forest eco system.
My name is Aaron Hilliard and I am the creator of Mushroom Wonderland here on YouTube, on Instagram @mushroom.wonderland, and TikTok at Mushroomw0nderland. I am the Vice President of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society and a life long forager of mushrooms. My videos are based in Washington state, right down on the Kitsap Peninsula about 1 hour from Seattle. I usually make these videos right near residential areas only a couple miles from my home, so it isnt necessary to travel a long way to find good wild mushrooms, they could very well be growing in your back yard. One of the mushrooms portrayed in this video is the ever popular Golden Chanterelle, which is among, if not thee, most popular and easy to identify wild mushroom in the area. AKA Cantharellus formosus, the Golden Chanterelle is an easy to identify and easy to find mushroom that is great for beginners. It is the first mushroom that I ever learned to forage. When eating wild mushrooms it is important that you make sure to cook them thoroughly and eat only a small amount the first time in case your body has an adverse reaction to them. I personally cant eat Chanterelles because they cause me GI distress, they are still a lot of fun to find.
Then I will talk a bit about the most common of PNW mushrooms, a tree conch, which you have no doubt seen, if you have spent more than 10 minutes in the forest around here, Fomitopsis mounceae, AKA the "Red Belted Conch," which is vital to the eco system nd easy to ID.
Come along with me on a journey into Mushroom Wonderland.