Judy Jacobson

People stalking moose aren’t the only hunters in the woods these days.

September also is a busy month for harvesters of mushrooms. Naturalist Judy Hall Jacobson recently published three books that might help fungi hunters, “Common Mushrooms of Alaska,” “Poisonous Mushrooms of Alaska,” and “Edible Mushrooms of Alaska.”

Jacobson started into a comprehensive book in 2005, before deciding smaller ones were handier. “If people just wanted edibles, they could just buy edibles,” Hall…