HARVEST PUBLIC MEDIA Wendy Porter and her father Roger Jensen show off the morel mushrooms they found in the woods.
Every spring, people scour river bottoms, searching for edible morel mushrooms. For many mushroom hunters, finding the hollow, sponge-like mushrooms is as much a draw as their earthy flavor.
The start of the season
Wendy Porter is hunting morel mushrooms with her father near the Missouri River. The 51-year-old Nebraskan has been hunting them for three decades. She even started a Facebook group for morel mushroom hunting in Nebraska in 2018.
“To my surprise, people were wanting to join left and right, and I mean, daily, I get probably 20, 25 people wanting to join. That s pretty cool,” she says.
In Nebraska, Families Come Together To Hunt For Morel Mushroom
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Like many in our pre-pandemic world, Emory College of Arts and Sciences senior Christie Jones hadn’t given much thought to potential health impacts from the ways people interact with the environment.
Then came an undergraduate research job in the lab of Emory disease ecologist Thomas Gillespie. Her work identifying the mites, biting flies and other ectoparasites on bats helped give new insight into the role that relationship may play in transmitting
Bartonella, the bacteria behind several human diseases.
By the time COVID-19 brought renewed attention to other diseases caused by germs spreading between animals and people, Jones was well into her own research in addition to graduate-level coursework.
Batgirl takes on new discoveries in disease ecology, rabies transmission
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