Album of Elwha Delta Meadow Field Trip

The eighth spider collecting trip (19 June 2008) of the Elwha River Biological Survey was devoted to recording late spring spider species from sites and areas already visted, and sampling one new area near the upper end of Lake Mills. Weather was fine, dry and not too hot. Several species were added in a return visit to the Warrior Trail in the Lower Elwha Klallam reservation and in a previously unvisited meadow in the river delta east of the reservation levee road and the old hatchery. Photos by Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford.
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2005 aerial photo of meadow in Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington meadow on Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington
Meadow on 2005 aerial photo (Clallam County) Dirt road leads into the meadow    © Rod Crawford
bigleaf maple tree Acer macrophyllum in meadow on Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington meadow on Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington
Bigleaf maple in meadow   © Laurel Ramseyer Log piles ready to make salmon habitat in river       © Rod Crawford
salmon-habitat logs, meadow on Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington salmon-habitat logs, meadow on Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington
Logs provide variety of substrates  © Laurel Ramseyer Incidentally, logs are good spider habitat     © Rod Crawford
Rod Crawford on Warrior Trail, Lower Elwha Klallam Reservation, Clallam County, Washington meadow on Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington
Rod heads down the Warrior Trail    © Laurel Ramseyer What is so lush as a meadow in June?        © Rod Crawford
Tetragnatha extensa orbweaving spider, Tetragnathidae, photographed in Finland grass-dominated meadow on Elwha River delta, Clallam County, Washington
Tetragnatha extensa    © Markku Savela Grass-dominated area     © Laurel Ramseyer

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