Album of South Cle Elum (John Wayne Trail) Field Trip

Selected photos from a spider collecting field trip to the John Wayne Trail one mile west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington, with Devon Lopetrone on 12 July 2006. Devon was in search of Dolomedes fishing spiders, which we didn't find, but other good material was taken. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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meadow steppe flowers off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington
Meadow steppe flowers   © Rod Crawford The John Wayne Pioneer Trail         © Rod Crawford
black cottonwood Populus trichocarpa off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington Cottonwood and pine leaf litter off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington
Black cottonwood tree        © Rod Crawford Cottonwood-pine leaf litter         © Rod Crawford
Purshia tridentata off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington meadow steppe off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington
Purshia tridentata shrub       © Rod Crawford Disturbed meadow steppe habitat           © Rod Crawford
Ponderosa pine and black cottonwood Populus trichocarpa off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington Peoh Point from John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington; Purshia tridentata in foreground
Ponderosa pine and cottonwood     © Rod Crawford Peoh Point looms over the Purshia      © Rod Crawford
flowers in meadow steppe off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington Purshia and farmland off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington
More meadow steppe flowers  © Rod Crawford Beyond the Purshia, Devon's pond and farmland     © Rod Crawford
round stones as spider habitat off John Wayne Trail west of South Cle Elum, Kittitas County, Washington Pirata pirati cus, shore wolf spider, in western Washington, J.R.Thomson photo
Collecting under stones       © Rod Crawford Pirata piraticus was found by both ponds      © J.R. Thomson
Dolomedes sp., fishing spider, photographed in Finland by Markku Savela Bullfrog Pond near Roslyn, Kittitas County, Washington
Spectacular Dolomedes eluded us  © Markku Savela SE side of Bullfrog Pond     © Rod Crawford
cat-tail Typha latifolia at Bullfrog Pond near Roslyn, Kittitas County, Washington Bullfrog Pond near Roslyn, Kittitas County, Washington; beaver dam
Cattails by Bullfrog Pond     © Rod Crawford Bulfrog Pond; beaver dam in foreground     © Rod Crawford

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