Edible mushrooms guide and safety tips for foragers
This guest column reviews edible fungi beyond the morel, detailing puffballs sulfur mushrooms shaggy mane and oyster mushrooms with color and habitat notes. It warns of deadly Amanita risks and suggests spore prints for identification, plus recommended field guides and a jokey ethics code for mushroom hunters.
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Alexander H. Smith
University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor
North America
Orson K. Miller Jr
E.P. Dutton
New York
George F. Atkinson
Andrus and Church Publishing Co
Ithaca
N.Y
Iowa State University
Iowa
Iowa Fishing Report Opens 1979 Season Across State
Iowa Conservation Commission notes anglers are catching fish despite cool wet weather. Ice retreats on some lakes. northwest lakes still iced. Walleye and sauger fair to good on Mississippi River at Bellevue and below locks, with minnows and jigs. Cedar River walleye good with jigs and minnows. Trout stocking active. streams clear produce better fishing. Lake Macbride and Lake Cornelia show walleye and bullhead activity. farm ponds yield bass and catfish. Lake Odessa and Lake Darling provide bullheads and catfish Friday fishing signals.
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Iowa
DES Moines
Iowa Conservation Commission
Mississippi River
Bellevue
Mississippi
Lansing
Cedar River
Lake Darling
Lake Odessa
Lake Macbride
Yenrougis Lake
Hawkeye Bicycle Association Sunday Rides
The Hawkeye Bicycle Association schedules two rides this Sunday with a 2 p.m. beginner friendly Cedar Lake Loop of eight miles from Bever to Shaver to Cedar Lake Daniels Park and back to Bever. The 8 a.m. morning ride from Bever Park covers 30 miles to Ely and Shueyville. An April 29 afternoon ride from Noelridge Park totals 7.5 miles looping the southeast side back to Noelridge, while the morning 42 mile route goes to Pinicon Ridge Park Central City and returns.
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Hawkeye Bicycle Association
Cedar Lake Loop
Bever
Shaver
Cedar Lake
Daniels Park
Bever Park
Ely
Shueyville
Noelridge Park
Noelridge
Pinicon Ridge Park
Central City
Big Fish and Fishing Events Highlight Iowa Roundup
Outdoor roundup reports Edward Helms of Aurora caught a 35 pound carp on March 27 in the Mississippi River Alla makee County. James Lammer of Dubuque netted a 3 pound 4 ounce brown trout from Swiss Valley Creek on April 6. Paul Montgomery’s 40 pound 12 ounce flathead catfish, caught in the Cedar River downtown Cedar Rapids, tops the week’s big fish list. A conservation project is planned near Manchester with a 9 a.m. meeting at the Manchester fish hatchery. Multiple trout stream projects are scheduled through August in various counties. The DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley is open daily 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. through Sept. 30 amid heavy winter fish kill. Public swimming at the north beach opens May 26. A joint public hearing on nursery stock sales is set April 30 in Des Moines. Weather reports note Bull Shoals and Norfolk Lakes temperatures in the mid 40s to 50s. National Fishing Week runs May 14-20 with 33 million license buyers and 30 million anglers fishing without licenses.
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Edward Helms
Aurora
Mississippi River
Allamakee
Iowa Conservation Commission
James Lammer
Dubuque
Swiss Valley Creek
Dubuque County
Paul Montgomery
Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
Saturday Gazette
Spring Branch Creek
Manchester
Manchester Fish Hatchery
John B. Green
Don Davis
Marion
South Fork
Big Mill
Syn Magill
Clayton County
Izaak Walton
Swiss Valley
French Creek
DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge
Missouri Valley
Missouri River
DeSoto Lake
George Gage
Bertrand Museum
Iowa Conservation Commission Forestry Section
Wallace State
Des Moines
Call State
Gene Hertel
Keosauqua man wins inaugural Iowa turkey calling contest
Keosauqua’s Dean Humphrey topped 15 entrants to win the first Iowa turkey calling contest at the Amana Holiday Inn on Interstate 80. Tom Stevenson placed second and Tom Carney third with Gerald Bailey fourth. Rutledge, secretary treasurer of the Iowa Chapter, noted the event coincided with a turkey hunting clinic and the chapter’s state convention. The Iowa Conservation Commission led the clinic with 177 registered.
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Dean Humphrey
Keosauqua
Iowa
Amana Holiday Inn
Interstate 80
Tom Stevenson
Farragut
Tom Carney
29Th Ave
Cedar Rapids
Gerald Bailey
Salem
George Rutledge
Woodburn
The
Gazette
National Wild Turkey Federation
Rutledge
Season opens with Mississippi bass tourney May 5
The Mid-America Bass Fishermen's Association sponsors the Pool 10 event from Guttenberg to Lynxville on May 5. Registration limited to 250. entry 35 dollars plus 12 dollar club fee. Boats depart Prairie du Chien starting 6:30 am. weigh-in at 3:30 pm Lawler Park. Prizes total 80 percent of fees. all bass must be 12 inches or longer and kept alive.
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McGregor
Mississippi
Mid-America
Bass Fishermen's Association Inc
Lock and
Guttenberg
Lynxville
Wis
Wayne Hood
LaCrosse
Prairie du Chien
Association
Starks
E. Chestnut Expressway
Springville
Lawler Park
Hunter safety course offered at Walton Oaks in April
Richard Fultz of the Linn County Chapter Izaak Walton League announces a free hunter safety course at Walton Oaks on April 23 24 and 26 open to ages 12 and up. To sign up call Walt Gruenewald in Hiawatha at 393 2548 amid reports that 26 states require course completion for licenses, Iowa considering the law.
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Walton Oaks
Richard Fultz
Linn County
Izaak Walton League
Walt Gruenewald
Hiawatha
Fultz
Iowa
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Robert George
Shaggy
Morel
Chanterelle
Iowa River
Skunk River
Lake Cornelia
Fish
DeSoto Refuge
Hawkeye Fly Fishing Association
Manchester Fish and Game Club
Trout Stream
Forestry
Ozark Report
Ol’ Timer
Mountain Home
Ark
Bull Shoals
Norfolk Lakes
Ozarks
American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association
Stevenson
Richard Adkins
Adel
Tom Novak
Aspen Lane
Bill Criswell
Oakland
Humphrey
Criswell
LeRoy Braungardt
Moscow Mills
Hunter
Griffin Ltd
Wilson Ave
Drug Town
Cypress
Portugal
Iown
Morris Plan Securities Company
American
MorAmerica Financial Corporation
Treasury
Morris Plan
Waterloo
Davenport
Bettendorf
Clinton
Iowa City
Burlington
Morris
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