A free public program on “Poisonous Mushrooms of Virginia” will be offered by the Northern Neck Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society at noon Thursday, November 19, at the Visitor Center, Belle Isle State Park, 1632 Belle Isle Road, Lancaster.
The speaker will be chapter member Kevin Howe, one of the authors on a recently published guide entitled “The Claudius Project—Poisonous Mushrooms of Virginia.” Howe is a retired ecologist and teaches classes for several Virginia Master Naturalist Chapters as well as being a Master Naturalist. After the talk, there will be a walk in the park to look for mushrooms,
