The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat is the definitive reference for uncovering post-rain rarities and kitchen favorites alike. Dazzling full-color photos highlight the beauty of hundreds of species. Easy-to-navigate entries offer essential descriptions and tips for identifying mushrooms, including each species' edibility, odor, taste, and rumored medicinal properties. The authors organize the mushrooms according to habitat zone. This ecology-centered approach places each species among surrounding flora and fauna and provides a trove of fascinating insights on how these charismatic fungi interact with the greater living world.

Cathy Cripps is a mycologist and associate professor at Montana State University where she teaches several courses on mushrooms and fungi. Her PhD mentor was well-known mycologist Orson K. Miller. Research trips to study Arctic and alpine fungi have taken her to Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Norway, and Finland. Cathy also works on the restoration of whitebark pine using native fungi. With over 40 years of collecting mushrooms in the Rocky Mountains, her love and enthusiasm for its fungal creatures runs deep.