Larry took a mycology class from OK Miller in 1977 and has spent the 40 some years since learning and teaching about fungi. His obsession has taken him on expeditions to the middle of the Amazon rainforest, the Russian Far East, and around North America. He’s a founder of the Western Montana Mycological Association (1991) and the first state approved mushroom vendor(2001). He released 2 CDs Fungal Boogie and Fungal Boogieman (2007) and appeared in Ron Mann’s comedocumentary Know Your Mushrooms (2009) and Yasuni Man (2016) by Ryan Killackey. 2023 sees the rerelease of A Field Guide to Amazon Mushrooms in Spanish, coauthored with Tatiana Sanjuan and Daniel Winkler.