Album of Carlisle Lake Park Field Trip

Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 25 March 2022 spider collecting trip to Carlisle Lake Park, near Onalaska, west-central Lewis County, Washington. The patchwork of young riparian habitats around the lake was very decent, but intertwined with just enough invasive blackberry to elicit a good deal of bad language! Between us we managed a good 45-species sample, including a very unusual linyphiid from lakeshore grass.
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Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington with spider sites in red start of main circum-lake trail, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Carlisle Lake with our sites in red      (Lewis County 2019) Start of the main dog-walkers' trail                         © Rod Crawford
historic smokestack of Carlisle Mill, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington across lake from parking lot, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Historic stack of the Carlisle Mill          © Rod Crawford Trees looked greener on other side of the lake                    © Rod Crawford
beaver-gnawed ash tree on shore of Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington Gheer Creek, outlet of Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
'Twas a fine example of Oregon ash, before the beavers got it
© Laurel Ramseyer		 Gheer Creek, outlet of the lake              © Rod Crawford
Achaearanea (Parasteatoda) tepidariorum, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington grassy shore of Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Achaearanea (Parasteatoda) tepidariorum      © Laurel Ramseyer Grassy lake shore                     © Rod Crawford
juvenile Cybaeus under wood, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington dirt lakeshore path, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Juvenile Cybaeus        © Laurel Ramseyer Dirt path had better habitats than gravel trail                © Laurel Ramseyer
sword fern understory Pterostichum munitum, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington sword fern understory Pterostichum munitum, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Sword fern understory          © Rod Crawford More sword fern understory, fairly spider-rich                    © Rod Crawford
sifter of bad litter, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington bad cottonwood litter, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Sifter full of bad leaf litter             © Rod Crawford Unproductive cottonwood litter                   © Rod Crawford
tree-eating English ivy Hedera helix, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington invasive blackberry Rubus armeniacus, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Tree-eating ivy here and there            © Rod Crawford Horrid invasive blackberry                  © Rod Crawford
Ozyptila pacifica crab spider, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington better cottonwood leaf litter, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Female Ozyptila pacifica           © Laurel Ramseyer More-productive cottonwood litter           © Rod Crawford
white pine tree, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington foliage of white pine Pinus monticola, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
White pine tree, Pinus monticola        © Rod Crawford White-pine foliage                     © Rod Crawford
white pine cones Pinus monticola, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington greening of the spring grass, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
White-pine cones             © Rod Crawford Greening of the spring grass                   © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir foliage big grassy field, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Douglas-fir foliage, fairly productive       © Rod Crawford Big grassy field had plenty of Pardosa                       © Rod Crawford
head of centipede Ethopolys integer, under wood at Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington Pocadicnemis pumila from moss, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Head of Ethopolys integer from dead wood  © Rod Crawford Male Pocadicnemis pumila from moss                 © Rod Crawford
cattail head with Larinioides spider, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington day becomes sunny, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Larinioides peeks out of cattail head     © Laurel Ramseyer Finally, the day becomes warm and sunny!                   © Rod Crawford
Porcellio scaber isopod, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington Lepthyphantes tenuis spider and egg sac under wood, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Porcellio scaber under wood        © Laurel Ramseyer Lepthyphantes tenuis & egg sac under wood             © Laurel Ramseyer
cattail along shore, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington Canadian thistle along shore, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington
Cattail heads have some spiders       © Laurel Ramseyer And thistle heads have their spiders too                   © Laurel Ramseyer
black cottonwood, the dominant riparian tree, Carlisle Lake Park, Lewis County, Washington sunset from a gas station along I-5 in Pierce County, Washington, 25 March 2022
Cottonwood was dominant riparian tree  © Laurel Ramseyer Sunset from a Pierce County fuel stop                    © Rod Crawford

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