Album of Horse Haven Creek Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to Horse Haven Creek, near Orting, Pierce County, Washington on 6 May 2006. Photos by Rod Crawford. This lovely spot is part of a 320 acre parcel of state forest land that is being swapped to a developer by the Department of Natural Resources (our Public Servants) for another natural resource - a Walgreens store! If this sounds too outrageous to be believed, see this news story or download the minutes (warning: pdf documents) of the January and February 2006 Board of Natural Resources meetings as evidence.
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aerial photo of Horse Haven Creek spider site: pond, forest, clearing (US Geological Survey, 2002) clearing at Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington with developing heath-shrub community
Pond, forest & clearing in 2002 aerial photo (USGS) Prairielike flora has grown in the unplanted clearcut   © Rod Crawford
Trillium ovatum (pink phase) near Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington Trail to pond, Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington; Scots broom, Cytisus scoparius
Trillium at edge of clearing   © Rod Crawford Invasive Scots broom flanks trail to the pond        © Rod Crawford
pond on Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington pond on Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington
Pond on Horse Haven Creek  © Rod Crawford First glimpse of the pond through trees      © Rod Crawford
Jeeps and 4-wheel-drive (4WD) trucks splash across Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington pond on Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington
A happy 4-wheeler club jounces by  © Rod Crawford ...leaving the pond as peaceful as they found it        © Rod Crawford
sifting maple-alder litter at Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington riparian forest understory at Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington
Sifting riparian leaf litter   © Rod Crawford Understory along the pond shore         © Rod Crawford
forest-edge understory at Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington, with Pseudotsuga menziesii and Gaultheria shallon forest understory at Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington
Understory at edge of clearing    © Rod Crawford Understory on slope above pond          © Rod Crawford
salal, Gaultheria shallon, near Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington salal, Gaultheria shallon, at forest edge near Horse Haven Creek, Pierce County, Washington
Salal foliage, fine spider habitat   ©Rod Crawford Dense salal shrubs at south edge of clearing       © Rod Crawford

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