Name: Welcome to the 46th Telluride Mushroom Festival: Let's Rewild!
Start: 2026-08-13T09:00:00-0600
End: 2026-08-13T10:00:00-0600

SCHEDULE LAUNCH IS JUNE 21st, 2026

Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 46th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! This program of the Telluride Institute, a 501c3 non-profit, offers a plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations and lectures—all led by regionally, nationally, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the wide variety of social and cultural events offered, along with the famous Mushroom Parade!) there is plenty for everyone, every day.

On this website, you can filter your search by events, venues, presenters, etc. Each year the Mushroom Festival features many wonderful presentations on “all things fungi.” Presentations on similar topics are grouped together at the same venue so that attendees interested will be able to spend more time learning and interacting, and less time walking between venues. See who else is interested in each event and interact with our extended Mushroom Family.

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Welcome to the 46th Telluride Mushroom Festival: Let's Rewild!

Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT

Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435

This presentation will introduce you to a little bit of what to expect from this year's Festival ...and will give you a glimpse of our past, our founders and our visionaries who catalyzed this event which has become "the largest wild mushroom event in North America." I will also introduce this year's theme: Rewild.

What is rewilding?

Rewilding has emerged over the past three decades as one of the most imaginative and ambitious movements in global conservation. At its core lies a radical but intuitive idea: ecosystems can regain their vitality, complexity, and self‑direction if the processes that once shaped them are restored. Rather than focusing solely on protecting individual species, rewilding seeks to revive relationships—migration, predation, grazing, disturbance, succession—that allow landscapes to function as dynamic, resilient systems. It is a shift from managing nature to enabling it, from preservation to regeneration, from static reserves to living, evolving worlds.

Although the term “rewilding” is relatively new, the impulse behind it is ancient, echoing Indigenous stewardship traditions that understood landscapes as reciprocal, relational, and alive. Today, rewilding has become a global conversation, taking different forms in different places, shaped by local histories, ecologies, and cultural values...And FUNGI will play a HUGE role!

Speakers

Britt Bunyard

Program Director, Telluride Mushroom Festival

Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi, in print since 2008. Britt is a former university professor and has published over 100 academic and popular science papers. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological... Read More →

Thursday August 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Sheridan Opera House

Passholder Event (included in Festival Pass), General Mycology

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