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Dedication to Eugene Bossenmaier / About the Authors
| Eugene Francis
Bossenmaier was born in 1924 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from
the University of Minnesota with a M.Sc. in Wildlife Biology at a time
when that discipline was still in its infancy. After forty years devoted
to wildlife management and conservation in Wyoming, South Dakota, and
Manitoba, he retired as Director of Resource Allocation and Planning for
the Province of Manitoba. He subsequently moved to Saskatchewan where
he was able to focus his energies on a subject that had long intrigued
him – fungi! While studying fungi began as a hobby, his natural curiosity and scientific training finally centered on collection, identification, documentation and photographing of the mushrooms of the Prince Albert National Park and its surrounding area. This resulted in the publication of his book, Mushrooms of the Boreal Forest (published by the Extension Press at the University of Saskatchewan). He always hoped that his work would be shared with others to be used and enjoyed. Mr. Bossenmaier died in 1999. |
About the authors:
Most of images in this collection are from slides photographed by Mr. Bossenmaier.
Of these some were digitized by the U Saskatchewan Extension Department (for
the book, Mushrooms of the Boreal Forest) or generously loaned by the Bossenmaier
family to Prof. Susan Kaminskyj as a member of the Biology Department of the
University of Saskatchewan.
The remainder (well over 1000!) were digitized
by Lindsay McJannet, Marlys Drader and Dennis Dyck.
Lindsay McJannet did the monumental task of identifying, digitally photographing,
and mounting and photographing spores of several hundred fungi (now freeze-dried)
we collected in 1999-2001 in the Prince Albert area. We were helped by Yunxiu
Dai, Mariana Neves, Melissa Boire, Rod McIntyre and Donna Kaminskyj. These
specimens form the nucleus of the newly-established U Saskatchewan fungal
teaching collection, in the Biology Department of the University of Saskatchewan;
Mr. Bossenmaier’s specimens are in the U Alberta herbarium.
This web page was designed and created by Eldon Siemens, who was instrumental
in having it see the electronic light of day. However, the key to fungal genera
(mostly based on the field keys cited in the reference section) was compiled
by me, Susan Kaminskyj, and inaccuracies are my fault. However, as described
in the Disclaimer, neither we, nor the University of Saskatchewan accept responsibility
or liability for errors the reader might make in identifying mushrooms, for
harmful reactions to eating poisonous mushrooms, and/or for idiosyncratic
reactions to eating any mushrooms.
I thank Peter Jonker (U Saskatchewan Extension) for putting me in touch with
the Bossenmaier family to get this project started, and for lending us his
set of digitized images originally published in "Mushrooms of the Boreal
Forest".
None of this would have been possible without
generous funding from Mrs. Alice Bossenmaier and her family, the Biology Department
of the University of Saskatchewan and from the U Saskatchewan USTEP program.
Contact information:
Dr. Susan Kaminskyj
Associate Professor, Biology Department
University of Saskatchewan 112 Science Place
Saskatoon SK S7N 5E2, Canada
tel: (306) 966-4422
email: Susan.Kaminskyj@usask.ca