Chris Demers said:

I have had pine mulch under my children's playground for 2 years.
This year a strange fungus is coming up everywhere in the mulch. It
looks attractive and yellow for a day then like a strange outer space
alien plant after that. If I touch it, it releases many black spores
at this point. Please have a look at the attached pictures and tell
me if you know how to safely get rid of it and if I should be
concerned about it for any reason.

Can only guess as my newserver doesn't allow binaries in discussion
groups. (See Warren's post for a pretty thorough explanation of the
issue regarding binaries.)

However, when anyone posts a 'what is this strange stuff in my mulch'
question, I first think of slime molds:

http://www.ppdl.org/dd/id/slime_molds-mulch.html

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/june99.html

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/slime1.htm
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