When we visited Fort Bragg, California along the Mendocino coast a few years ago, the highlight of the trip for me was a visit to Glass Beach. There, glowing in the sun, lie smoothed shards of glass from years of household garbage, beaten by the waves. The nearby presence of dioxin went understandably unpublicized in the tourist trade. The town housed a redwood mill, now closed, which left behind a toxic waste legacy. A unique clean-up proposal has been proposed by town residents: mushrooms. Mushrooms have been successfully used in experiments to clean up oil spills and research has also shown success with plastics and other chemicals. The Fort Bragg fungi proponents would like to be a pilot study for mushrooms cleaning up dioxins, and called in expert Paul Stamets to assess their situation. Despite some skeptics, Georgia-Pacific is financing a pilot project to see if mushrooms can bioremediate 10 cubic yards of the toxic soil.