Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 21 October 2023 spider collecting trip to the West Fork Satsop Boat Launch, on the river of that name just above where it joins the East Fork to form the Satsop, in Grays Harbor County, Washington. Although overgrown here and there with blackberry, the site contains some excellent habitats including diverse conifer foliage, lovely floodplain forest with big maples and alders, plus a gravel bar! At least 54 species rewarded our efforts.

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Sites in red: outhouse, parking site, floodplain forest (Grays Harbor County, 2021)	Bigleaf maples turning yellow along the highway                 © Rod Crawford
Fall color at Elma Rest Area          © Rod Crawford	Parking area for those who brought boats              © Rod Crawford
The actual boat ramp, well used this day © Laurel Ramseyer	And they built a crooked outhouse (not really)            © Laurel Ramseyer
Behind outhouse, it's forbidden 6 ways from Sunday  © Rod Crawford	We parked up on a little hill, away from the hurly-burly        © Rod Crawford
Not much Scots broom, just enough      © Rod Crawford	Rich Douglas-fir foliage                         © Rod Crawford
Sitka spruce foliage equally rich         © Rod Crawford	Red cedar foliage had lots of a non-native crab spider         © Rod Crawford
Roadside verge that I swept…       © Rod Crawford	…and got this lovely Rhomphaea fictilium                © Rod Crawford
Sword fern understory habitat…          © Rod Crawford	…at its best for spiders when perched on a bank          © Rod Crawford
This maple already dropping lots of leaves   © Rod Crawford	Fortunately, much habitat not yet blackberry-destroyed       © Rod Crawford
Moss on maple trunks, fine habitat      © Rod Crawford	Lovely flood-plain forest                     © Rod Crawford
Maple crotch, where best leaf litter lurks   © Rod Crawford	Walckenaeria directa from moss               © Rod Crawford
Male Taracus pallipes from maple litter      © Rod Crawford	Male Xysticus pretiosus from moss                © Laurel Ramseyer
Gravel bar surface           © Laurel Ramseyer	Flood-plain forest gives way to gravel bar               © Laurel Ramseyer
Pyrrharctia isabella larva        © Laurel Ramseyer	Fine example of a big gravel bar             © Laurel Ramseyer
Flood debris perched in trees          © Laurel Ramseyer	Banana slug with dark spots                  © Laurel Ramseyer
Cybaeota shastae from moss                © Rod Crawford	Sudden rain ended our very productive day               © Rod Crawford

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