Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 6 June 2015 spider collecting trip to 4 sites along the Cooper River, Kittitas County, Washington. The first three sites were each productive of spiders from different habitats, bringing us 37 species in all. The final site was more productive of mosquitos. See Laurel's account here.

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Red Mountain Trailhead in red circle (Kittitas County, 2013)	Montane bench reached via the trail           © Rod Crawford
Red Mountain Trail crosses the bench        © Rod Crawford	Licorice ferns on rock face             © Rod Crawford
Loose bark habitat had no spiders     © Rod Crawford	Semi-open forest habitat near trailhead          © Rod Crawford
Manzanita was common       © Rod Crawford	Grand fir and wild rose             © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir foliage         © Rod Crawford	Mountain hemlock foliage             © Laurel Ramseyer
And lodgepole pine foliage     © Rod Crawford	Typical white pine cone          © Laurel Ramseyer
Second site on Stave Creek          (Kittitas County, 2013)	Looking down the rocky, meadowy slope           © Rod Crawford
Euryopis formosa           © Laurel Ramseyer	A brook trickles down the rocky slope        © Laurel Ramseyer
Yellow violet grows among rocks      © Laurel Ramseyer	Closeup of the brook             © Rod Crawford
Columbine in the steep meadow        © Rod Crawford	Heading back up the slope            © Rod Crawford
Cooper River bridge/trail area        (Kittitas County, 2013)	Looking up Cooper River toward lake           © Rod Crawford
It was riverside alder — not meadows      © Rod Crawford	Down Cooper River from bridge            © Rod Crawford
Pacific Chorus Frog            © Laurel Ramseyer	Cooper River Trail sign             © Laurel Ramseyer
Hemlock litter & forest floor flower       © Rod Crawford	Old growth makes spider-rich conifer litter            © Rod Crawford
A convenient place to park my hat       © Laurel Ramseyer	Rod sifting hemlock litter            © Laurel Ramseyer
Pocadicnemis occidentalis             © Laurel Ramseyer	Stave Creek just above confluence with river             © Laurel Ramseyer
Old roads leading to upstream meadows     (Kittitas County, 2013)	Rod hiking along the narrow road            © Laurel Ramseyer
This used to be a road!       © Rod Crawford	Grass-bracken meadow               © Laurel Ramseyer
Celastrina        © Laurtel Ramseyer	Laurel scans giant rock for spiders            © Rod Crawford
Grassy habitat       © Rod Crawford	Wild strawberries were abundant; few in fruit             © Laurel Ramseyer

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