Since the pandemic, Professor James White of the Rutgers Plant Biology Department has been using the Rutgers Ecological Preserve each Fall semester as a lab for two mycology courses: 1) Fungi in the Environment (3 credits; 11:776:400) and Poisonous and Edible Mushrooms (1 credit; 11:776:257).  Prof. White suggests that the field component has really improved the quality of the course experience for students. He notes that “I think that the students get a better experience of fungi when they are actively involved in finding and identifying fungi.”