daniel winkler

Daniel is the author of two field guides to edible mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest and California (Harbour Publishing, 2011 and 2012), Amazon Mushrooms (2014, co-authored), Field Guide to Medicinal Mushrooms of North America with Robert Rogers (2018), and the brand new MycoCards Boletes of Western North America, co-authored with Gary Gilbert.

Daniel grew up collecting and eating wild mushrooms in the Alps and has been foraging for over 20 years in the PNW and beyond, sharing his enthusiasm as a mushroom educator and guide, and as past PSMS vice president. In his presentations he combines his stunning photography with an often funny blend of entertaining stories and scientific information that he likes to refer to as "edutainment.”

Having been in love with mushrooms since early childhood, Daniel has managed to bend his career as an ecologist and geographer focused on High Asia toward researching rural Tibet's enormous fungal economy. His Cordyceps research has been featured in The Economist, National Geographic, The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, BBC World Service, and more. With his travel agency MushRoaming, Daniel has been organizing mushroom-focused ecoadventures to Bhutan, Tibet, the Amazon, Colombia, the Austrian Alps, and the Pacific Northwest since 2007. In the last decade, Daniel has started exploring neotropical fungi.

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