The Elwha River Fungal Biodiversity Survey (ERFBS) is an ongoing effort to document fungal diversity across the Elwha River watershed and former Lake Aldwell restoration landscape. Developed through a partnership between Biodiversity Collective and the Olympic Peninsula Fungi Festival, the project combines field surveys, DNA sequencing, and biodiversity research to better understand fungal communities in one of the Pacific Northwest's most dynamic recovering ecosystems.
 

Following dam removal and reservoir drainage, the former Lake Aldwell landscape has become a rapidly developing mosaic of newly exposed terrestrial habitat. ERFBS examines how fungal communities are distributed across this recovering ecosystem, with particular emphasis on ecological guild structure, ectomycorrhizal representation, and fungal community assembly within post-disturbance environments.
 

The ERFBS Species Explorer and associated datasets remain actively under development. Some taxonomic interpretations, ecological assignments, DNA validations, and descriptive content may continue to evolve as additional observations, sequence data, and curation workflows are incorporated into the project.