Fearless Foraging In the Rocky Mountains: Rapidly Identify the Most Common Edible Wild Mushrooms In The Mountain States and Safely Distinguish Them From Toxic and Inedible Fungi

The introductory write-up, specifically asking if I’m afraid that I won’t be able to tell the edibles from the poisonous, got me to read this book, and I’m glad I did. In preparation for my hiking trip, I’ve ordered books about the plants and animals living in the region but neglected to get one about the mushrooms living there. There’s so much great information in this book, which is organized in an easy-to-read manner that readers will inevitably remember the critical content. Due to the format and information, I never felt so confident about analyzing and understanding the benefits and risks associated with mushrooms.

Fearless Foraging is an excellent guide to finding mushrooms in the wild -- both just for the fun of discovery and also for the benefit to your health and your pocketbook when you find edible mushrooms and are sure that they are safe. The author knows what she is doing in searching for mushrooms and gives excellent advice on how to be safe and sure that you will not be poisoned. Read and follow every word.The information is very factual; the pictures are beautiful; and the advice will lead you to a treasure of mushrooms for your kitchen that you never thought possible.

This book is incredible! If you want to hunt mushrooms this is the perfect guide for you!Includes many photos, and specifications of every mushroom, if it's edible or not, it also tells you in which season you can find them.At the end of each chapter you will see a few QR codes for you to scan and get extra info about the mushrooms covered in the chapter.This book is without a doubt a must-have book!!00% recommended.

Right up front, my wife and I love mushrooms. Raw, sautéed, stuffed, it doesn’t matter, we love mushrooms. Unfortunately we are both limited in our knowledge and discernment regarding the safe and more tasty mushrooms available in the wild all about us. Enter this book. I’ve looked at many other books written to help the novice forager recognize the usable mushrooms from the less than healthy variety. This book truly is so well done. The material is presented in a very easy to comprehend format replete with illustrations, pictures, and simple yet more than adequate instructions for identification. I would highly recommend this book to both expert and novice mushroom foragers and those who are just wanting to know more about mushrooms.

It would be better with color photos, but it’s good none the less

Even though I have foraged for mushrooms in the Montana mountains I have only picked one type and that is the Morels. Mostly because I could easily identify them. This book has shown me how many more edible ones are out there and I am looking forward to trying to identify some of them. I also agree with the author that the "Morels are better sauted" ...especially in butter!

While I was a big skeptic all about mushroom benefit because it’s known to be poisonous after reading this book I felt confident about harvesting mushroom and identifies which ones are safe and which ones are dangerous. I am so excited for spring and to go to Rocky Mountain to start harvesting natural mushroom that are healthy for me and my loved one and be able to confidently experience the true benefit of mushroom . Next year I will be growing my own . Highly recommend for anyone looking for self sustainable life style and source their own food

I haven’t died yet…I did not expect the book to be black and white. Color seems like an important characteristic when it comes to IDing mushrooms.We were able to ID one type while camping and it was delish.

I enjoyed this book, very informative, there are a lot of interesting facts and information. I find myself looking for a lot of the plants that are in this book.

This book has so much helpful information, I am not near the Rockies but have still been able to identify so many mushrooms on the east coast. And my favorite of all is the digital field guide! I feel like I have the safety knowledge of a book, but I can bring it with my on my phone. So helpful!

Love this book, so much helpful information. I feel more confident identifying mushrooms now.

I was severely disappointed! How can you safely identify mushrooms with black and white pictures of on top not even great quality?!? I did not even look further into the book, I sent it back right away . I actually ordered two, one for a friend, both went back!