I have spent many years in front of the scanning electron microscope studying spore structures and the properties of fungi. I have thousands of electron micrographs. Mushrooms produce slews of antibiotics simply because they dont like to rot, but after they sporulate, they give themselves up, and bacteria and all sorts of other organisms use them as a food source. Then the mushroom begins to rot, and spores germinate after being produced from the gills. The mushroom just melts into a mycelial mat, which is a remarkable type of structure composed of very thin but incredibly extensive filaments. Looking at mycelium after mycelium under the scanning electron microscope for years, I began to realize that these mycelia look like externalized neurological networks. Four hundred and sixty-five million years ago, we shared a common ancestry with fungi. Fungi chose the path of digesting nutrients externally. We chose the path of encircling our nutrients, so we have multiple layers of skin. The mushroom mycelium only has one cell wall between it and a very hostile external environment, but its membrane is full of receptor sites that interact constantly with its surroundings. I have come to believe that mycelial mats, found nearly everywhere underfoot in our planets soil, form a network that is sentient, intelligent and responsive. Its been here as long as we have, and it responds to catastrophia. The complexity of the fungal genome helps protect environments from invasive diseases and it helps sustain other biological communities. A group of Japanese researchers recently demonstrated the existence of what they called cellular intelligence. They put a slime mold into a maze and gave it two food sources. The slime mold split itself and chose the shortest distance possible, navigating throughout the maze as directly as possible to both food sources. I believe there is growing evidence to confirm that cellular networks such as mycelial structures do indeed possess a form of intelligence. The largest organisms on the planet are most likely mycelial mats. Theres a 1200-acre one in southern Washington, and the largest in the world is probably a 2400-acre mat in Oregon, caused by a honey mushroom species called Armillaria ostoyae. These structures form in the soil at the tops of the mountains and slowly kill off trees, then lightning strikes and causes fires. These mushrooms are meadow makers. Ive wondered for years why there are meadows all over the Cascades and the Olympics well below tree line. This type of mushroom mycelium, I believe, is the main engine creating these meadows. That 2400-acre mat is about 2200 years old, and its killed the old-growth forest cover above it at least four times. In doing that it builds soil. These fungi are grand molecular disassemblers that break down plant cellulose into simpler forms that are then used as nutrients by other plant communities. They thicken and enrich the soil, and that leads to downstream increases in biological diversity. A mushroom mycelium sweats enzymes and antibiotics that are customized tools it uses to cope with the different challenges it faces in its natural environment, so its able to adapt to changes and disturbances. These are extremely adaptable organisms. I have been struck by how the computer Internet is very structurally similar to a mycelial mat. There is no point-specific central location on the computer Internet or in a mycelial mass where you can fatally harm the entire organism. Its decentralized organization permits it to react to disturbances in the environment in an exquisite way and to share information along its whole network very effectively. Many forms in nature and the universe seem to share this type of mycelial architecture and certain recurrent shapes, at all levels of size, from spiraling galaxies interspersed amongst the cobweb of dark matter to hurricanes and mushrooms. The mycelial structure may be a core archetypal pattern in our universe. Mycelial mats have crucial ecological functions. They capture nutrients and silts and bacteria and organic matter and digest them. They transport water and rehydrate the soil, and they grow in an astonishingly wide range of environments. You can grow mushrooms on chairs. They love everything, it seems, especially oyster mushrooms - you can even grow oyster mushrooms on old soggy money. We do a lot of work with oyster mushrooms. Were part of a research program funded by the NIH (National Institutes of Health) at San Francisco General Hospital to treat HIV patients with oyster mushrooms. They are promising because they contain glycolproteins, which have antiviral properties but dont interfere with lipid metabolism in the liver the way protease inhibitors do. These are the first clinical trial on mushrooms in America. Oyster mushrooms can do other amazing things. They produce enzymes that can break carbon-hydrogen bonds, so we were involved in a series of research experiments to determine if we could use oyster mushrooms to clean up hydrocarbon-saturated soils after oil spills. We participated in a competitive trial against four other companies that used more conventional remediation technologies in Bellingham, Washington, to break down diesel-contaminated soil. Each company was given a pile of contaminated soil to work with. We mixed our oyster mushrooms in the contaminated soil, and four weeks later everyone came back to look at each pile. The bacterial people still had a stinky pile; the people using enzymes still had a stinky pile; the company using chemical remedies had a stinky, lifeless pile. They came back to our pile and pulled back the tarp, and it was covered by hundreds of oyster mushrooms. The oyster mushrooms were perfectly edible - they were delicious. And something really significant happened. Not only were the mushrooms huge, which told me they were happy mushrooms, but, after the oyster mushrooms sporulated and began to decompose, they attracted insects. Theres an intimate relationship between insects and fungi. Bacteria started breaking down the mushrooms, and then flies laid eggs and larvae developed, and then pretty soon birds came after the larvae, so our pile was the only pile that became an oasis of life. And we broke down the PAHs, which are toxic carbon compounds, from ten thousand to less than two hundred parts per million in less than eight weeks, and then other plant communities took root. I think these saprophytic fungi open up the door and create a domino effect leading to habitat restoration. They are extremely powerful organisms. They can be our allies, and I believe they are intelligent. We need to engage them. Theyre all around us. In my view, they want us to use them to remediate many of the problems we are causing to the environment. After our success in these experiments, we started getting involved with Amazon Watch and other groups to use fungal strategies to break down oil spills in Ecuador. A hairdresser in this area has a patent for soaking up oil with hair, which is very inexpensive to collect and seems to work very well. We started to experiment with inoculating this hair soaked with oil with oyster mushrooms, and it seems promising. Were mobilizing a group to go down to Ecuador to try it in the field: using hair to soak up the oil and then breaking down the oil by injecting oyster mushrooms. Ive also been working on other fungal-based techniques to clean up a variety of other types of polluted sites or to minimize contamination. Ive created little pods using burlap bags inoculated with mushroom spores that I can place like sand bags around hog farms, chicken farms or any type of estuary environment where one wants to ameliorate the impact of downstream contamination. Another very promising avenue of our research is the potential of fungal antibiotic compounds to neutralize the dreaded 0157 E. coli bacteria. I discovered that Fomes fomentarius mushroom (the same species found on the famous in the Alps) seems to send out anti-bacterial crystalline messenger entities that seek out and disintegrate the E-coli. The creeping mycelium seems to be able to pick up chemical scent trails and to track down and destroy it. There is no cure for E. coli, so this discovery could be very promising. Some of the fungi I was working with were tested, and, to my surprise, seemed to be effective in the decomposition of some chemical and biological warfare weapons. One of my strains from the old-growth forest actually seemed to be effective in neutralizing highly toxic VX nerve gas. VX is a very potent nerve toxin that Saddam Hussein did use, and once its put into an environment, that area becomes inhospitable to all vertebrates for hundreds of years. It does not break down. This gives us yet one more argument for saving the old-growth forest: it may be a matter of national defense. Ive also been working with another very promising medicinal species, the turkey tail mushroom, and the Lancet recently published a clinical study using them for treating gastric cancer that got good results. The turkey tail also seems to have potential in breaking down PCBs. That would be remarkable indeed, if the same mushroom turned out to be both medically effective and a powerful cleanser of environmental toxins. We grow about 250 species in our culture library, and we have commercialized about 25 species. One of our main missions is to go into endangered habitats and do mycological surveys and save as many species as possible before those habitats are destroyed. So many of these species are turning out to have incredibly important properties, both for medicine and remediation. We need these species now. If we end up losing our biodiversity and our fungal diversity, we are shortchanging future generations and depriving ourselves of critically important tools that we desperately need. In many cases we are merely re-discovering ancient knowledge about mushrooms. Fomitopsis officinalis, a species that has been found to possess very strong anti-microbial properties, was first described by Dioscorides in 65 AD as a treatment against consumption, known now as tuberculosis and was also revered by the Haida people of the Pacific Northwest. The fact that these two radically different cultures thousands of miles apart independently prized this mushroom for its antimicrobial properties is certainly very interesting. There are some mushrooms that we havent been able to cultivate, that will only grow in the wild. One of them is one of the largest mushrooms in the world (five to six hundred pounds), Oxyporus nobilissimus (now known as Bridgeoporus nobilissimus). It lives exclusively in the old-growth forest in our region. It is definitely the largest mushroom in North America. It grows exclusively in the old-growth forest in Washington and Oregon, and at only six known locations. Ive also been working on creating fungal pesticides, and I think Ive made a very important discovery.

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