WOW, now the way to get this on the endangered species list is to have some celebrity chiefs to find a way to cook this stuff so everyone wants some.
Get the Asia comunity involved, pass on a rumor that these spores boost the libero in men or cure gall bladder disease. Get this stuff in a lab and find out if here is some chemical or what not that can benefit mankind.
God gave humans controll of the earth, its plants and animals, so why are we waiting for, how deep in the ground does it grow, can its roots be used to make food as the roots of some mushroom's are made into substitute mead products today on the market.????
Product called Quern a meat substitute uses the roots of schrooms to make meatless products that taste like chicken, delicious and nutritious.
There is Rockne gold mine out there just waiting to be harvested for food ,perhaps pharmaceuticals, we may have a new food source and a world wide need for these fungus. Damn look at the cost to get those darn fungus black truffles ----what $500 a pound for the good ones ????