Spread of mushrooms prompts caution (The Salem News)

20 August 2008, 9:06 pm

BEVERLY and mdash; Dugie Russell knows a poisonous mushroom when he sees one. But in this particularly moist summer, he's worried about all the rest of us who don't. Russell said mushrooms are proliferating this summer due to the heavy rainfall, increasing the chance that a youngster will pick one up and take a bite. As an acknowledged expert on mushrooms, he voluntarily fields phone calls from ...... read more

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