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Lending Library

The society keeps a lending library at the WSU Extension office, 17 SW Cascade Ave in Chehalis, WA. It holds field guides, ecology, cultivation, and cooking titles by well-known authors — the same references our members reach for while identifying their discoveries.

Shelves of mushroom field guides in the club lending library
An open mushroom identification guide beside a notebook and hand lens

On the shelves

A sampling of the current inventory. Titles come and go as members donate — ask the librarian at a meeting for the full, up-to-date list.

Identification & field guides

  • Mushrooms of the Pacific NorthwestSteve Trudell & Joe Ammirati
  • All That the Rain Promises and MoreDavid Arora
  • Mushrooms DemystifiedDavid Arora
  • The New Savory Wild MushroomMcKenney & Stuntz, rev. Ammirati

Ecology & science

  • Mycelium RunningPaul Stamets
  • Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake

Cultivation, cooking & dyeing

  • Growing Gourmet and Medicinal MushroomsPaul Stamets

How to check out a book

  1. 1.Come to a monthly meeting — the library travels with us to the WSU Extension office.
  2. 2.Ask the librarian or any board member to sign a book out in the log.
  3. 3.Books check out for one month; renew at the next meeting if you need longer.
  4. 4.Return the book to the librarian at a meeting, or arrange a hand-off with a board member.

Borrowing is a membership benefit and free of charge. If a book is damaged or lost, let the librarian know so we can replace it.

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