Album of Schriebers Meadow Field Trip

Selected photos from a spider collecting field trip to Schriebers Meadow, south of Mount Baker, Washington (along and south of a popular hiking trail) on 14 July 2007. An adequate, if unspectacular, spider sample was taken in this beautiful area, and despite all the hikers, high quality solitude was to be had a few hundred feet south of the trail. But anyone planning an off-trail walk in this area should bring a compass and mosquito repellant, as I did. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington, 1994 aerial photo Mt. Baker from Schriebers Meadow, Whatcom County, Washington
Aerial view shows Rocky Creek lower left, iron-stained tributary upper left, trail upper right, meadow center, forest on sides (USGS, 1994) Mount Baker dominates the scene         © Rod Crawford
small wetland area, Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington
Many wet spots breed mosquitos    © Rod Crawford Schriebers Meadow is broken up by tree cllumps      © Rod Crawford
snowy hills east of Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington Survey Point, west of Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington
Still-snowy hills to the east          © Rod Crawford Survey Point to the west            © Rod Crawford
Arctosa alpigena female wolf spider, Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington heather Phyllodoce empetriformis and huckleberry Vaccinium, Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington
Arctosa alpigena, female   © Rod Crawford Heather and huckleberry in meadow      © Rod Crawford
dead wood log habitat, Schriebers Meadow, S of Mt.Baker, Washington Mount Baker from forest near Schriebers Meadow, Whatcom County, Washington
Dead wood habitat       © Rod Crawford Forest west of the meadow          © Rod Crawford
iron ferrous hydroxide yellow boy stain in stream bed, tributary of Rocky Creek, south of Mount Baker, Washington iron ferrous hydroxide yellow boy stain in stream bed, tributary of Rocky Creek, south of Mount Baker, Washington
Ferrous hydroxide in creek bed     © Rod Crawford The stain occupies only part of the bed         © Rod Crawford
iron ferrous hydroxide yellow boy stain in tributary meeting Rocky Creek, south of Mount Baker, Washington stream cobble habitat, Rocky Creek, south of Mt. Baker, Washington
Stain is lost on joining main stream  © R.Crawford Stream-cobble habitat of Pardosa lowriei     © Rod Crawford
stream cobbles and boulders, Rocky Creek, south of Mt.Baker, Washington Rocky Creek, south of Mt. Baker, Washington
Now why is it called Rocky Creek?  © Rod Crawford Rocky Creek, looking upstream        © Rod Crawford
deer doe in forest glade near Schriebers Meadow, south of Mt. Baker, Washington Mount Baker from Schriebers Meadow, Whatcom County, Washington
Oh, deer              © Rod Crawford The mountain and the meadow            © Rod Crawford

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