ABOUT THE SOUTHERN IDAHO MYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (SIMA)
Members include amateur and professional mycologists, mushroom foragers, all-around mushroom lovers. Founded in 1976 under the leadership of Ellen Trueblood, SIMA has held hundreds of educational events, identified thousands of mushroom species, and helped countless members and friends of the Association advance and inform their love of fungi. Whether you’re just interested in learning to identify a couple of edible species like morels or chanterelles or you’re ready to make mycology a serious hobby, we’d like to welcome you to the club. You can join right here.
OUR VISION
We advocate the sustainable use and research of mushrooms as a finite resource and endorse responsible wild mushroom collecting that does not harm the fungi and their habitats.
OUR MISSION
The Southern Idaho Mushroom Group is an educational, social, and outdoor-oriented organization. Our mission is to promote the study of all aspects of the fungal world, including foraging and identifying all mushrooms, cultivating edible and medicinal mushrooms, cooking mushrooms, making art and dyes using fungi and exploring the ways that fungi interact and shape both our environment and our industrial world.
IDAHO POSSESSES DIVERSE MUSHROOM HABITATS
With its diverse and fungi-friendly habitats from alpine to steppe to deciduous riparian forests, Idaho has a lot to offer the mushroom enthusiast. Throughout our history, SIMA members have cataloged well over 2,000 species of mushrooms in Idaho and even eastern Oregon. We hope to continue adding to that store of knowledge with your help.
AFFILIATION WITH THE NORTH AMERICAN MYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
We are affiliated with the North American Mycological Association so that SIMA members who wish to join NAMA may do so at a reduced rate. You may join NAMA directly here (noting your SIMA membership, if applicable).
Our Newsletter
We publish an electronic newsletter and distribute it to our members on a bi-monthly basis.
At this time, we are looking for a newsletter editor to help get our newsletter back online. Some years of archived copies of will eventually be accessible on this site.