Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to Stone Quarry Canyon, Kittitas County, Washington on 16 April 2007 with Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford. Photos by both, as credited. A very secluded spot with nice habitats, good fauna, and a very unusual isolated grove of Douglas maple which I'd previously spotted on aerial photos. The location itself is on State land but is largely surrounded by lands of the Mellergaard ranch; many thanks to the Mellergaards for not objecting to passers-through!

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Our site in a 2000 aerial photo (USGS)	Looking down from head of canyon             © Rod Crawford
Laurel's first time in eastern Wash. © Rod Crawford	Rod ready to collect; note rubble beds on slopes       © L. Ramseyer
Tachinid fly            © Laurel Ramseyer	Isolated clump of Douglas maple           © Laurel Ramseyer
When in doubt about a bare tree, look at the leaf litter       © Laurel Ramseyer	Inside the maple thicket            © Rod Crawford
Elk scat           © Laurel Ramseyer	Cattle-watering pool              © Rod Crawford
Laurel says she turned over every rock on this hillside        © Rod Crawford	In steppe-land canyons, rock rubble is a productive spider habitat     © Rod Crawford
Diverse wildflowers were everywhere  © L. Ramseyer	Spiders can be colorful too: Phidippus johnsonii male  © Rod Crawford
Young Misumenops on Balsamorhiza  © L. Ramseyer	Will you walk into my parlor?           © L. Ramseyer
Ribes flowers: habitat of...    © Laurel Ramseyer	First Misumenops importunus from eastern Wash.!    © Rod Crawford
Bombylius major     © Laurel Ramseyer	Time to head back up the canyon        © Laurel Ramseyer
Dictyna coloradensis       © Rod Crawford	Dictyna webs were easy to spot with the sun low       © Rod Crawford
Sisyrinchium flower with beetle     © L. Ramseyer	Ready to drive off into the twilight             © Rod Crawford

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