Album of Coal Mines Trail Field Trip

Selected photos (by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer) from our 3 November 2010 spider collecting trip to the Coal Mines Trail, a former mining railroad between Roslyn and Cle Elum, Washington. A rare spell of gorgeous weather let us get in an unusually late Eastern Washington sample along a route with big open fields and various sorts of woodland in the flood plain of Crystal Creek, on the southern outskirts of Roslyn. We brought back 48 species including a number of rarities! See Laurel's account of the trip here.
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aerial photo, 1998, Roslyn, WA trailhead of Coal Mines Trail big field along Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Dots show the trail route                (USGS, 1998) My first sample was from the big field      © Rod Crawford
Ponderosa pine cones, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington Ponderosa pine grove, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Laurel's first sample, as usual, from cones      © Laurel Ramseyer One of many Ponderosa pine groves               © Laurel Ramseyer
tachinid fly on cottonwood leaf, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington carapace of liocranid spider Agroeca ornata, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Tachinid fly on cottonwood leaf       © Laurel Ramseyer Agroeca ornata from cones              © Rod Crawford
colorful conifer seedlings, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington Ponderosa pine branch, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Colorful seedlings                  © Rod Crawford Ponderosa branch, cones more open than on ground       © Laurel Ramseyer
Rod Crawford inspecting sweep sample, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Rod sorts day's first sweep sample    © Laurel Ramseyer A stretch of typical trail           © Rod Crawford
Ponderosa pine stump, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington Cicurina pusilla from stump, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Pine stump produced one spider     © Laurel Ramseyer Cicurina pusilla from stump              © Rod Crawford
cottonwood tree with fall color, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington The Slag Pile, mining landmark, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Colorful cottonwood                   © Rod Crawford The Slag Pile (registered historial landmark)           © Rod Crawford
unidentified Theridion spider, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington grassy meadow, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Unidentified, but colorful, juvenile Theridion    © Rod Crawford Natural-looking meadow along trail                © Laurel Ramseyer
Douglas-fir in understory of cottonwood, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington fungus, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Fir foliage in the understory         © Rod Crawford A fine fungus                     © Laurel Ramseyer
vinemaple Acer circinatum, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington Ceratinella sp. microspider, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Vine maple in ravine          © Rod Crawford Unidentified Ceratinella from litter         © Rod Crawford
cottonwood trunk, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington cottonwood leaf litter, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Cottonwood trunk           © Rod Crawford The cottonwood litter that caused all the trouble             © Rod Crawford
fallen apple with wasps, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington crab spider Ozyptila sp., Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Fallen apple attracts late wasps      © Laurel Ramseyer Unidentified Ozyptila from litter, note clavate hairs          © Rod Crawford
male carapace of unidentified erigonine spider,Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington bracken and Oregon grape in understory, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Laurel swept this unidentified erigonine    © Rod Crawford Understory was very rich in spiders         © Rod Crawford
Laurel Ramseyer checks sweep sample, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington discarded suitcase by Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington
Laurel checks one of her last sweeps         © Rod Crawford Discarded suitcase housed 3 good spider species!           © Laurel Ramseyer
unidentified Thanatus crab spider, Coal Mines Trail, Roslyn, Washington dusk from Interstate 90 near Easton, WA on 3 Nov. 2010
Unidentified juvenile Thanatus          © Rod Crawford Dusk near Easton           © Rod Crawford

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