Selected photos by Rod
Crawford from my 6 March 2015 spider collecting trip with Jessi Bishopp to a large park on the outskirts of Chehalis, Lewis County, Washington. In advance research, much of the park area appeared to be natural habitat. Alas, all the habitats were invaded by blackberry. Every habitat was degraded, some by invasives and some by flooding, but by dint of long hard work we managed to get a decent sample of 36 species, with several interesting records.
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| Stan Hedwall Park (Lewis County, 2009) | Picnic shelter was a habitat © Rod Crawford |
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| Wall of blackberry at edge of woods © Rod Crawford | Lawn gives way to quasi-natural grassland © Rod Crawford |
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| The only maple litter I could reach © Rod Crawford | Ravine with impenetrable blackberry © Rod Crawford |
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| Bridge to woods trail (not really an island) © Rod Crawford | Blackberry also in mid-woodland © Rod Crawford |
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| Jessi forages for moss to sift © Rod Crawford | Beside the trail through the "island" © Rod Crawford |
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| Mt. St. Helens actually has snow! © Rod Crawford | Jessi sorts through a cedar-beat sample © Rod Crawford |
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| I've been workin' on the railroad © Rod Crawford | Railroad embankment and adjacent grassland © Rod Crawford |
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| Track-side tree © Rod Crawford | Sweepable grass with fewer blackberries © Rod Crawford |
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| Jessi sorting a sweep sample © Rod Crawford | Ambystoma macrodactylum, long-toed salamander © Rod Crawford |
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| Jessi sorts a spruce-beat sample © Rod Crawford | Rich spruce foliage © Rod Crawford |
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| Nice conifer to beat? Jessi had to brave a horrendous blackberry thicket to reach it © Rod Crawford | Barren canopy of a Garry oak tree © Rod Crawford |
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| Oak litter © Rod Crawford | Clubiona kastoni from oak litter © Rod Crawford |
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| Mossy-ferny trunk, also inaccessible © Rod Crawford | Oak-maple-grass savanna-like habitat © Rod Crawford |
This page last updated 10 March, 2015