Album of Johnson Canyon Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to Johnson Canyon SE of Kittitas, Kittitas County, Washington, on 9 October 2008, with Laurel Ramseyer and Rod Crawford. Photos by both, as credited. Refused permission to pass the Army's new gate, we found enough habitat between the gate and the freeway to supplement an old 11-species sample to 24.
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2001 aerial view of Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington collecting site in Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington
2001 aerial view of collecting site (Kittitas County) Overview of the site. To orient with photo at left, note square parking lot   
© Laurel Ramseyer
Western yellowjacket Vespula pensylvanica, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington dry field, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington
Vespula pensylvanica       © Laurel Ramseyer Expanse of dry field produced three Dictyna species    © Laurel Ramseyer
outhouse along John Wayne Pioneer Trail, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington cheat grass Bromus tectorum, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington
Outhouse contributed three species © Laurel Ramseyer Invasive cheat grass, Bromus tectorum    © Laurel Ramseyer
cattail in canal-bottom wetland, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington wetland in disused irrigation canal, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington
Wetland in disused canal       © Rod Crawford Canal bottom quite a contrast to the dry field          © Rod Crawford
willow litter in disused canal, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington willow in disused canal, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington
Willow litter       © Rod Crawford Willow thicket in canal bottom       © Rod Crawford
Dictyna coloradensis spiders, male and female in web, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington riprap by disused canal, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington
Dictyna coloradensis share a web    © Laurel Ramseyer Riprap along old canal provides rocky habitat       © Laurel Ramseyer
Eleodes darkling beetle, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington deer skeleton, Johnson Canyon by Interstate 90, Kittitas County, Washington
Eleodes darkling beetle    © Laurel Ramseyer Deer skeletons littered the roadside     © Rod Crawford

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