Album of Shadow Lake Field Trip

Selected photos from the spider collecting field trip to the Shadow Lake Sphagnum bog near Maple Valley, Washington on 19 April 2006. See the Shadow Lake Web Site. Photos by Rod Crawford.
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Erin Wojewodzki-Prinsen, owner-caretaker of Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington aerial photo of Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington
Erin Prinsen, co-owner, was a great help in collecting (not in this outfit, of course)      © Rod Crawford Aerial photo: road, upper right; hemlock forest, upper left; alder woods, bottom; open bog with Ledum, center  (USGS)
Labrador tea, Ledum groenlandicum, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington Forest of western hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington
The Labrador tea jungle   © Rod Crawford Parts of the bog are succeeding to hemlock forest   © Rod Crawford
Sphagnum hummock, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington Former Sphagnum hummocks replaced by other moss, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington
Sphagnum hummock in bog   © Rod Crawford In forest, other mosses replace Sphagnum         © Rod Crawford
Western hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington Western hemlock canopy, Tsuga heterophylla, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington
Hemlock foliage habitat     © Rod Crawford The bog forest canopy was pure western hemlock     © Rod Crawford
skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanum, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington
Skunk-cabbage in forest   © Rod Crawford Twin hemlocks growing from ex-Sphagnum hummock © Rod Crawford
Lichen on Sphagnum, Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington Forest floor in Alnus rubra forest, Shadow Lake, King County, Washington
Lichen invades Sphagnum hummock © Rod Crawford Forest floor and litter in alder grove           © Rod Crawford
cutleaf blackberry, Rubus laciniatus, invasive plant in Shadow Lake Bog, King County, Washington Cutleaf blackberry, Rubus laciniatus, and Alnus rubra at Shadow Lake, King County, Washington
Cutleaf blackberry - the enemy!      © Rod Crawford Across the Blackberry Curtain into the alders          © Rod Crawford

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