Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 6 October 2022 spider collecting trip to working-forest sites (chiefly Port Blakely Tree Farms property) along and near Langworthy Road in the extreme SW corner of Thurston County, Washington. Balked of our original destination by active logging, we found reasonable and accessible alternates nearby, beginning with what turned out to be an only 1-year-old clearcut, but with well-developed spider fauna. An old road took us into a young forest adjacent for different spiders, and a final site on a side road nearby added more for a satisfactory 39 species. The USGS map calls this gently rolling area with no summit, "Michigan Hill."

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Winter photo of our collecting area with 2021 clearcut outlined in red; our 4 sites as round red dots (NAIP, 2020)	Port Blakely gate allows pedestrian access            © Laurel Ramseyer
Logging road through new clearcut        © Rod Crawford	Who would guess spider-rich meadow was 1 year old?          © Rod Crawford
Araneus diadematus just into forest      © Rod Crawford	West end of the 2021 clearcut                    © Rod Crawford
Nice juicy Douglas-fir cone             © Rod Crawford	Edge of young Douglas-fir forest                © Rod Crawford
Spirembolus mundus with prey          © Laurel Ramseyer	Somewhat-older clearcut across the road was planted           © Rod Crawford
Penultimate Xysticus cristatus         © Laurel Ramseyer	Native orbweaver Neoscona arabesca, nice catch!         © Laurel Ramseyer
Coccinella septempunctata lady beetle  © Laurel Ramseyer	Lynx spider, Oxyopes scalaris                 © Laurel Ramseyer
Laurel got spiders and a centipede here  © Laurel Ramseyer	Old road through the young forest                  © Rod Crawford
Ozyptila pacifica sifted from moss       © Laurel Ramseyer	Sword fern understory                   © Rod Crawford
A miscellaneous bag of leaf litter        © Rod Crawford	Moss on an isolated maple tree                  © Laurel Ramseyer
Moss on hemlocks, Drewry Road         © Laurel Ramseyer	Moss on alders, Drewry Road                        © Laurel Ramseyer

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