Album of Little Falls Cemetery Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and new field volunteer Kent Karnofski from our 31 March 2018 spider collecting trip to Little Falls Cemetery, west of Vader, Lewis County, Washington. Skipped due to deteriorating weather on a previous trip, the site proved to have good habitats available; a nearby working forest tract and powerline clearing added more, bringing us up to a nice solid 40 species, including the rare Rhomphaea fictilium and a possibly new Ozyptila crab spider. Little Falls was the original town name of Vader, changed (twice) due to complex circumstances. The town is my father's birthplace.
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2009 aerial view of Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington and vicinity uninhabited corner of Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Red dots: cemetery, central; clearing, left; powerline, right
(Lewis County, 2009)		 We started sifting in an uninhabited corner of the cemetery  © Rod Crawford
Douglas-firs in forest adjacent to Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington mystery non-native conifers in lawn, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Douglas-firs dominated adjacent forest      © Rod Crawford Mystery exotic conifers in cemetery lawn           © Rod Crawford
alder stand in ravine, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington sifting leaf litter, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Alder stand in adjacent ravine          © Rod Crawford Sifting alder-maple leaf litter            © Rod Crawford
ventral structures of odd Ozyptila crab spider female from leaf litter, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington unusual Ozyptila crab spider from leaf litter, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Ventral structures of odd Ozyptila      © Rod Crawford Possibly a new Ozyptila species!             © Rod Crawford
moss on tree, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington moss on tree, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Moss on trees…             © Rod Crawford …ripe for the sifting                  © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir foliage at edge of Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington salal "hedge" at edge of clearing, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage at forest edge       © Rod Crawford Salal "hedge" at edge of cemetery clearing                  © Rod Crawford
grave monument of Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Grave monument of pioneer Alice Laughlin  © Rod Crawford Inhabited part of the cemetery               © Rod Crawford
Kent Karnofski chasing a wolf spider, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington blue sky on a beautiful early spring day, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Kent shoos a wolf spider into his net       © Rod Crawford So nice when borderline forecast becomes beautiful day       © Rod Crawford
electric fence, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington electric fence, edge of Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Why an electric fence bordering a cemetery?      © Rod Crawford Oh, that's why!               © Rod Crawford
cones of mystery exotic conifer, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington wolf spider habitat at edge of clearing, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Cones of mystery conifer were all closed    © Rod Crawford Wolf spider habitat at edge of lawn          © Rod Crawford
male amaurobiid spider Callobius pictus sifted from moss, Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington Sierra Pacific gate across road from Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Male Callobius pictus from moss      © Kent Karnofski Sierra Pacific gate across road leads to large working forest     © Rod Crawford
clearing in Sierra Pacific land across road from Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington pile of what looked like wood scraps across road from Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
We soon came to a large clearing       © Rod Crawford What's that? Looks like a pile of wood scraps!               © Rod Crawford
pile of scrap metal in clearing across road from Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington juvenile theridiid spider Rhomphaea fictilium swept from ferns, across road from Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
No such luck, it's a pile of culvert scraps!   © Rod Crawford Rare Rhomphaea fictilium swept from ferns                 © Rod Crawford
Kent Karnofski examines sweep sample from fern understory, across road from Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington sword fern Polystichum munitum understory, across road from Little Falls Cemetery, near Vader, Lewis County, Washington
Kent examines a fern sweep sample       © Rod Crawford Fern-rich, spider-rich section of understory             © Rod Crawford
street level view of powerline clearing west of Vader, Lewis County, Washington sunset on March 31, 2018 from I-5 in south Seattle, WA
Powerline clearing, our last stop (later-season image) The sun sets as we approach home            © Rod Crawford

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