Selected photos by Rod Crawford and Laurel Ramseyer from our 21 March 2019 spider collecting trip to Gold Creek Trail and Tin Mine Creek Road in Green Mountain State Forest, Kitsap County, Washington. Fall before last, we collected in the further part of the Gold Creek Trail and this time we hit the nearer part; thus completing the spider sampling of the entire Kitsap Peninsula! In all, we got a nice diverse 40 species from the area, including a remarkable 13 species from one bridge structure and the first time Laurel has found native Ozyptila pacifica in a Douglas-fir cone.

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Gold Creek Trail area; dot shows bridge   (Kitsap County, 2017)	Trailhead with early-spring bare alders                  © Rod Crawford
Pityohyphantes tacoma on branch    © Laurel Ramseyer	Trail bridge supported 13 spider species!               © Rod Crawford
Microlinyphia dana on bridge         © Laurel Ramseyer	Male Neriene digna on bridge               © Laurel Ramseyer
Walckenaeria auranticeps on bridge   © Laurel Ramseyer	Male Callobius pictus from bridge           © Laurel Ramseyer
I set up to sift on trailside bench          © Rod Crawford	Rod gathering alder litter to sift                 © Laurel Ramseyer
Halorates ksenius on bridge       © Laurel Ramseyer	Laurel sifting moss on same trailside bench               © Rod Crawford
Gold Creek under the bridge      © Laurel Ramseyer	Bridge from bottom of ravine           © Laurel Ramseyer
Ozyptila pacifica from cones            © Laurel Ramseyer	Canopy of second-growth western hemlock           © Rod Crawford
Douglas-fir cones ready to tap        © Laurel Ramseyer	Rod writing labels to put in spider vials                © Laurel Ramseyer
Main site on Tin Mine Creek Road  (Kitsap County, 2017)	Past the gate and ready to hike!               © Rod Crawford
Young white pine, alas no cones!       © Rod Crawford	2011 clearcut                   © Rod Crawford
Matted grass by roadside        © Rod Crawford	Young Douglas-firs with spiders on them!                   © Rod Crawford
Scene of the crime                © Rod Crawford	Witness tree                             © Rod Crawford
Neobisiid pseudoscorpion             © Laurel Ramseyer	Forest at far edge of clearcut                © Rod Crawford
Yep, there's a creek there all right      © Rod Crawford	Tin Mine Creek (but where's the mine?)                    © Rod Crawford
Clearcut, this year's model            © Laurel Ramseyer	There are still remnants of February's snow!           © Rod Crawford
Salmonberry marsh by the creek        © Rod Crawford	Creekside swamp with salmonberry, huge stump          © Rod Crawford
The Brothers visible from last site      © Rod Crawford	Sun sets on our way hone                   © Rod Crawford

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