Picker permits
protect patches

EVEN THOUGH pine mushroom
prices are scraping the barrel, a
couple of new native buying sta-
tions in the Hazeltons continue to
attract pickers,

One shipment of mushrooms
has already been flown out, and
the two stands managed by the
Gitwet House Society Coopera-
tive had more product than they
could ship. —

Art Loring, an Eagle clan chief
from Gitwangak, believes the
Gitksan plan to regulate the pine
mushroom industry will succeed.

‘We want to encourage people
to look at the issues,’’ says
Loring. “We have to work to-
gether to protect the resource,”’

The plan includes issuing frec
picking permits for locals and
charging $250 for non-local pick-
ers, $75,000 for each non-Gitksan
buying stand.

Loring says the permits are in-
tended to limit how many pickers
are working in various areas and
avoid ecological damage.

‘You get an enormous amount
of people coming in (to the
Gitksan territories), there is gar-
bage and the moss gets com-

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pacted. It starts flipping over and
this wrecks the root system,”’

Although there’s a provincial
pine mushroom task force under
way, the Gitksan say regulation
of the industry by the B.C.
government is a long way off.

Loring says the Gitksan plan is
to monitor the best areas and
estimate how much money is
being generated by the mushroom
business, compared to the poten-
tial value of logging the area.

“TE we can show that the
mushroom profits exceed those of
logging we can tackle the Minis-
try of Forests,’’ he says.

This would kcep prime produc-
tion areas from being logged for
the benefit of everyone in the ter-
ritorics, he says.

In this mushroom season the
strategy is mainly to make buyers
and pickers aware of coming
changes. When people do pick up
a permit f is an opportunity for
some education about proper
tespect for the mushroom habitat,

“We need to let them know that
it’s not going to be a free market,
it’s going to change’? says
Loring.

Cautious approach needed

sulake mycelium would depend
on faster production of it.

So far, he says, it’s been prow-
ing extremely slowly.

Fine-tuning the solution it
grows in could accelerate growth,
Fogarty added.

‘We have to find out what they
like to grow in,’' he said, ‘“We
may be able to graw it much
faster in the future.”’

If that works, they may try ad-
ding artificially grown mycclium
to malure Irees.

That could be used to give
heavily picked or damaged
mushroom patches a boost back
to healthier jevels,

Another area of uncertainty is

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Introducing different strains of
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“You don’t want to bring it in
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race,”

Growing mushroom mycelium
from spores is a tricky business.

The petri dishes can be
colonized by any airborne spores
— not just the oncs researchers
want,

Although they use sterile condi-
tions, they still have to use genet-
ic testing, of the product to make
sure they actually grew What they
wanted.

Fogarty also wants to test the
effects of imigating mushroom
patches.

But there are also dangers to ad-
ding higher than natural levels of
water, :

“Tt might wreak havoc on other
species,’ he said, adding re-
searchers must be cautious.

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