Selected photos by Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford from our 17 March 2023 spider collecting trip to the Brooklyn valley, Pacific County, Washington. We collected at North River Cemetery, Howard Creek (whose habitats were marred by invasives), and the historic (1897) Brooklyn School. Despite assorted problems, we managed to get 44 species! And it was truly wonderful to be back in the field in a supremely peaceful setting.

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Brooklyn Valley, our sites in red    (Pacific County, ca. 2020)	Name of North River Cemetery cast in iron                 © Rod Crawford
One of the grave urns where Laurel always finds a special spider © Laurel Ramseyer	Scene in North River Cemetery                    © Rod Crawford
Metellina curtisi on gate           © Laurel Ramseyer	Gate of Port Blakely's Howard Creek road                   © Rod Crawford
Pityohyphantes rubrofasciatus on gate  © Laurel Ramseyer	Tetragnatha versicolor stretched out on gate           © Laurel Ramseyer
Nice deep alder litter            © Rod Crawford	Set up to sift litter beside the dirt road                      © Rod Crawford
First spike of skunk cabbage         © Laurel Ramseyer	Nascent skunk cabbage flowers                      © Laurel Ramseyer
Male Walckenaeria auranticeps         © Laurel Ramseyer	Fern/salal understory with blackberry vines          © Rod Crawford
Laurel strides on seeking greener pastures  © Rod Crawford	Rod settles down at his sifting site                 © Laurel Ramseyer
Moss suitable for sifting             © Laurel Ramseyer	Laurel's greener pastures                      © Laurel Ramseyer
Laurel sifting moss                 © Rod Crawford	Xysticus pretiosus sifted from moss                © Laurel Ramseyer
Roadside salal understory           © Laurel Ramseyer	Vast meadowland on the wrong side of a fence             © Laurel Ramseyer
Unmistakable signs of deer            © Laurel Ramseyer	Fern understory                   © Laurel Ramseyer
Cutleaf blackberry prevented us from reaching…    © Laurel Ramseyer	…lovely streamside marshland on Howard Creek               © Rod Crawford
Western hemlock foliage          © Rod Crawford	Brookyn School buildings                   © Laurel Ramseyer
Female hobo spider somehow survived winter outside Brooklyn School © Laurel Ramseyer	Little red schoolhouse (1897)                        © Rod Crawford

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